3 APRIL 1909, Page 17

LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU ON HER OWN SEX. rTo Till

EDITOR Or Tilt "SPECTATOR...1 SIR,-_A propos of the present sex controversy which is carried on daily in the Press, may I be allowed to quote Lady Mary

Wortley Montagu on the subject of her own sex P She says

"God and Nature have thrown us into an inferior rank ; we are a lower part of the creation ; and any woman who suffers her 'vanity and, folly to deny this, rebels against the law of her Creator and the indisputable order of Nature."

[Though we own ourselves fervent admirers of " the Charming Mary Montagu," we cannot agree with her dictum. If, however, she had said "a different rank" and "a different

Part of the creation," we should have no quarrel with her WOrda.—ED. Spectator.]