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Helen Brent, M.D. (Gay and Bird.)—The author of this "

social study " points out evils definitively enough, and does well not to do more than hint at remedies. Dr. Helen Brent is a very wise and reasonable person, and distinctly feminine. She has a lover to whom she is nowise indifferent. He would have her give up her profession ; she will not go beyond a compromise, is willing "to confine herself to consultation work, and to perform opera- tions." But is even such work compatible with the contingencies of marriage ? Other matters are touched upon in this story— marriages of convenience, for instance—and always with good feeling.