Brief Essays and Sketches. By Matilda Sturge. (Samuel Harris and
Co.)—These essays are reprinted, for the most part, from two periodicals published by the Society of Friends. Some are biographical (they are mostly reviews). Of these, the most interest- ing, perhaps, is that entitled "Sister Augustine." The sister was one of those who joined the Old-Catholic movement, and seems to have been a person of singular strength and sweetness of character. The essay called "A Few More Words about Women" is particularly sensible. It is a shrewd question, though of course it must not be pushed too far, that if the powers of woman have been depressed by long ages of neglect, why has she not transmitted her inferiority to her sons as well as to her daughters ? The essays, on the whole, were certainly worth republication.
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