We have received five volumes of the proceedings of the
Inter- national Congress of Women held in June and July of last year under the presidency of the Countess of Aberdeen, who has edited these records of the meetings. The books are published by Mr. T. Fisher Unwitt at the price of 3s. 6d. net per volume. The titles are Women in Industrial Life, Women in Social Life, Women in Politics, Women in Education, and Women in Professions. All are full of interesting matter which it is quite impossible to notice in detail. We may point out the difference of opinion between the speakers reported in Vol. I., and the sentiments of a little pamphlet noticed last week (" Applied Proverbs "). Some women repudiate protection and regulation of labour as vehemently as others demand them. The "Political Section," we see, after some murmurs, consented to hear a paper from the "Women's Anti-Suffrage Society of the State of New York." The main argument was that suffrage implied military service, police duty, jury duty, the holding of public offices, &c., some of them functions which are clearly outside the capabilities of women, and only to be discharged by them, if discharged at
at an extravagant cost.
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