The Empress Frederick opened the new Shaen Wing of the
Bedford College for Women in Baker Street on Tuesday, and was evidently well pleased to add distinction to a ceremony which promises to one of the earliest, most active, and most thorough of the Women's Colleges, a new and more effective reach of life. Miss Lucy Robinson, who is one of the many B.A.'s whom the College has produced, delivered a Latin address which was creditable to her Latinity, but perhaps a little too courtly in tone. To assure the Empress that she is endowed with "every virtue that may become our sex" (cum omni virtute gins serum nostrum decent), is a little too much,—on the strength of the sort of vague rumour which is all that the authorities or students of the College could possibly command. For our own parts, we can hardly con- ceive a woman of whom her sisters can truly say that she has " every virtue that may become our sex." The very first thing that culture ought to teach is the preference for language that expresses exactly what is meant, and no more. It is one thing to be hearty, and quite another to indulge in exaggerated eulogy. The most hearty expressions show their heartiness partly by their reticence.
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