The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1871-07-13
1901.

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Probably the greater part of our
readers have heard of the remarkable
paper in recent number Of Blackwood's
Edinburg Magazine. Not few of them
have read the production as it has been
republished in this country in two or
three forms. 1t is powerful attack
on the policy Of the present British nd
ministraiionj and processes to relate
how the Germans, having finished
France, invaded England. The writer
puts himself half u century ahead, and
treats the future as if it were the past.
For purely imaginative production, il
Is certainly written with wonderful at.
tention to detail 1t reads like vera.
clous narrative; aud would be quite
terror to weak nerves, but for the re-
lection that the writer or orator in the
opposition always has the vantage ground
1t is very much easier to iind fault than
to defend, to prophesy evil than to pre-.
dict good.
Our British cousins must be iu a
prophetic mood. Another and more
elaborate work, in the dignity of book
form, has appeared, written by j. +.
Mcguire, member oil Parliament for the
city of Cork. 1t is called "The Next
Gencration," aud treats of things in
1891, in the present tense. What will
especially delight the advocates of
@om,n's progress" is, that Mrs. Selma
Bates is Chancellor of the Exchequcr,
Meliora Temple First Commissioner of
Works, Eva Robertson Minister of Ed.
ucation, Edith Jarvis Solicitor General,
aud Doctors Mary Elmslcy aud Agnes
Horsman physicians in ordinary to the
Court; to say nothing of simple NJ. P's,
1.-THE falrcst women OF the three king.
donis," with "some lovely specimens of
the genuine oriental type, pale, dream.
ing and large eyed" In the House Of
Commons are eighty-uine women to four
hundred aud lorty one men, and new
and more comnodious Parliament house
is built, with roomy Hobbies. The crush
OF ladies' dresses in the old Hobbies be
comes such subject of complaint that,
for the sake Of peace and quictness a
more capacious building becomes ne,
cessary.
The Imagination Of Mr. Mcguire, NJ.
p, has produced book which seems TO
puzzle the critics. at is lively, pleas.
ant reading" says one authority, ''in
spite of its absurdities. Sometimes VIC
feel that Mr.. Mcguire is laughing in
his sleeve at women aud their cmauei
patton. But even if he is not, the book
is good book, aud will repay perusol. !"
The public political part OF the work
carries with it a private side, aud when
the female politicians and statesmen
marry they seem to retire from public
life. Women attract widowers and
marry them by saving their children
from drowning. Women have clubs,
aud volunteer in the army, ofhccred by
their own sex. Rowing, swimming, and
athletics are no longer left to the male
creatures, Nor in mental matters are
they behind, being prominent in art,
literature, science, law, medicine, com
mcrce and politics. The theme of tie
work of which only the review is before
US, is worthy of the pen of Swift, and
would require such pen to do it jus.
tice. Man III the future, according to
Mr. Mcguire, may hide his diminished
head. Women in "the next generation"
are brilliant in every department of
politics, aud every relation of life. We
all know how bright they arc now in
most social relations; but all that is
nuthiug to what they are in 1891. Their
political independence has lent them
such luStre that they outshine their
former selves, aud in fact it might al
most be said that at the period Of which
Mr.. Mcguire writes they have left
nothing to the wretohed men except the
joy of being lovers, and the somewhat
doubtful honor of becoming husbands
it they are very good" Well, stranger
things have happened than even the
strongest that Mr.. Mcguire propounds.
-Philadeiphia Ledger.