CURRENT LITERATURE.
The Lost Wedding-Ring. By Mrs. Winter and Mrs. Boy. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)—This is a disquisition, put into the shape partly of dialogue, partly of autobiographical reflection, on things con- cerning matrimony. This institution wants, it seems, a certain reform. The promise of obedience, for instance, is obsolete. "The wife does not intend to do it ; nor does the husband have any ground for believing that she will." Nor, indeed, is this to be wondered at. Men are lowering themselves, and women are doing exactly the reverse. Men devote themselves to money-making, women to the acquisition of knowledge. There is plenty of sense and knowledge of the world in this book. The style might be im- proved. "Woman has broken through nothing that makes her less feminine than she was," is a very queer way of putting what we presume the author means,—' Nothing that woman has done in breaking through conventions, &c., has made her less feminine than she was.'
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