22 FEBRUARY 1896, Page 23

A High - School Girl. By Mre, Henry Clarke. (S.S.U.)." Don't forget

your duty in your ambition" is, it may be said, the moral of this story. The impression left is that whatever the merits of the "new woman," there is much charm about the old. We do not care about the "secret of the bureau" part of the story. Such things spoil what should depend for its effect upon other causes.