WOMEN OF CANADA.
Women of Canada : their Life and Work. Compiled by the National Council of Women of Canada. (For Distribution at the Glasgow International Exhibition, 1901.)—We regret that we have neglected to give an account of this publication until the Glasgow Exh ibition, at which it has been distributed free of charge, is closing. The information it gives is, however, so interesting and so multifarious that it deserves, and will probably obtain, some other form of circulation which will go on independently of the occasion for which it was prepared. In addition to the statistics of work done by modern Canadian women, and the fullest practical information as to the laws concerning women and the oppor- tunities of wage-earning open to them, the book contains a number of most carefully prepared narratives, by different hands. Each paper gives us the history of some department of woman's civilisation or education from the first days of French settlement in Canada. And the outcome is a vivid panorama of the story of a peculiarly interesting national development. The mingling of races and civilisations and religious professions has nowhere upon the earth's surface brought about more picturesque or more practically wholesome results than in Canada. And this book gives us all sides,—the French, the English, the Indian, the Catholic, and the Puritan. We find side by side with histories of all the modern organisations for promoting the public careers of women the story of the heroic achievements of the religious Orders which were the pioneers of education among the Red Indians and the settlers who pitched their camp in their midst. Finally Lady Aberdeen explains in a particularly instruc- tive and useful essay the constitution of the National Council of Women in Canada, and the nature of the work it does in helping all women's associations and organisations to make their aims actual. The work may be obtained free of charge on application to W. D. Scott, Esq., Canadian Office, Glasgow Exhibition.
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