10 MARCH 1888, Page 24

Good Words for March is worth noticing, if only for

the sake of the Countess of Aberdeen's "Our Mothers and Girls," which is at once lively and practical. Ladies who are interested in this subject should read it to see what Lady Aberdeen and her friends—friends in the real rather than in the social sense of the word—have done and are doing. But there are other excellent things in this number, even exclusive of the letterpress. The indefatigable Duke of Argyll begins a series of papers on "Darwinism as a Philosophy," and Miss Linskill's "Vignettes of a Northern Village" are quite worthy even of her.