Vassar Studies. By Julia A. Schwartz. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)
—" Vassar" is a well-known women's college, a sort of American Girton. The " Studies" are not stories, they are sketches of college life. Their "essential motive," according to the preface, "is esoteric; to embody in a literary form for the odumnx of a particular institution, memories and impressions of their college days." It is appallingly dull to study a herd of young American women through nearly three hundred pages unrelieved by a single incident or a single male figure. We quote a specimen of the intellectual conversations which take place among the Vassar students :—" have learned the meaning of heartache,' she said. 'It is an awfully interesting feeling. It was a pang, and then a contracted sensation—quick in coming, but it stays quite a while.'
Yes,' echoed her companion absently, it stays quite a while." We hope the alumnx may find this rubbish to their taste.
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