18 JULY 1885, Page 23

Women of the Day. By Frances Hays. (Chatto and Windus.)—

Here is a very useful book of reference. Every reviewer should have it, if only to keep him from blundering about the ladies who write under the name of "Edwards." The book is of more than two hundred pages, and must contain about three times as many names, though some of them occupy but inconsiderable space, Miss Charlotte M. Yonge, for instance, taking up more than a page and a half with a mere list of her works; and this does not contain books done for the American market. There are some omissions. We do not see the names of Miss Rogers, who has written about Oriental life ; of "Mabel Collins" (a pseudonym, we suppose), a novelist of some note ; or of Mrs. Lovett Cameron, also a writer of novels—to speak of literature alone.