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second, the Women's Educational Movement, the Women in Medicine, the In- 

 dustrial Movement, and Women as Philanthropists. In that upon Germany a 

 general review of the movement is given, as well as an account of the National 

 Association of German Women, and in that upon Italy a general review and a 

 history of the Educational Movement. Among the English essayists, one of the 

 principal is Mrs. Fawcett, wife of Mr. Henry Fawcett, Postmaster-General of 

 Great Britain, and Professor of Political Economy in Cambridge University. 

 Mrs. Fawcett was led to study the same subject through reading to her husband, 

 who is blind. She was one of the foremost women in England in publicly advo- 

 cating and discussing the political enfranchiseftient of women, and is a compe- 

 tent authority on all similar subjects. The other English writers in the volume 

 are Mrs. Maria G. Grey, Francis E. Hoggan, M. D., Miss Jessie Boucherett 

 and Mrs. Henrietta O. Barnett, all able and distinguished in their several spheres. 

 Their contributions fill nearly one-third of the work, which, in view of the marked 

 progress made in Great Britain in the direction of the political rights of women, 

 is entirely proper. As Miss Cobbe says in her introductory chapter, " Of all the 

 movements, political, social and religious, of past ages, there is, I think, not one 

 so unmistakably tidelike in its extension and the uniformity of its impulse as that 

 which has taken place within living memory among the women of almost every 

 race on the globe. Other agitations, reforms and resolutions have pervaded and 

 lifted up classes, tribes, nations, churches. But this movement has stirred an 

 entire sex, even half of the human race. >;< * * _ gul- x}cvq 



crown and completion of the progress must be the attainment of the political 

 franchise in every country wherein representative government prevails, and till 

 that point be reached there can be no final satisfaction- in anything that has been 

 achieved." 



For any one desiring a compendious history of the woman question in all lands, 

 written by the most competent writers and edited by a careful and conscientious 

 editor, this, work is about all that can be asked. 



Shaw's New History of English Literature : Edited by Truman J. Backus, 

 LL.D. i2mo., pp. 480. Sheldon & Co., New York and Chicago, 1884. 

 For sale by M. H. Dickinson, $1.25. 



For a number of years past Thos. B. Shaw's "Outlines of EngHsh Litera- 

 ture" has been regarded by teachers as a standard work. In its revised form it 

 presents many improvements in arrangement, unity and simplicity of style. 

 President Backus has given a fuller discussion of the old-English and middle- 

 English literatures ; an assignment of prominent positions to the most famous 

 writers : a free use of quotations from the works of the best English and Ameri- 

 can critics; a collection of references to the best collateral readings upon the 

 topics considered, and the use of a few simple diagrams for the aid of students in 

 remembering important classifications of authors. The chapters upon Eng- 

 lish literature in America are the sole work of President Backus himself, and are 

 very complete, having been entirely re-written for this edition. 



