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Prof. w. NJ. Hays, of the University
of Minnesota, has an article in the
current Review of Reviews, entitled
Our Farmer Youth and the Public
Schools" in which he strongly advO-
Gates the multiplication of rural ag-
ricultural schools and gives excellent
reasons for believing that it would be
for the good of the rural population.
He considers that the teaching of sci
entific farming is drawing boys away
from the dangers of city life, and taking
them back to till the ground. He cites
with pride what Minnesota has done,
and illustrates his remarks with maps
of the country districts surrounding
the Twin Cities. Prof. Hays article
is followed by one relating to the same
topic by an Illinois expert, in which he
tells what good work has been done
throughout his own state by agricul-
tural education.
The publication of the letters of
Mile. Julie de Lespinesse at this time
is interesting, as relating to the dis
cussion raised a year ago by the pub
lication of Lady Roses Daughter" by
Mrs Humphry Ward. Some critics
belittled her book and called her a
plagiariSt because her heroine'S career
was so evidently that of the fascinat-
ing Mile. de Lespinesse of the eight
zenith century in France. Mrs. Ward
smilingly acknowledged the similarity,
but denied the plagiarism, and rightly
so, for even at the most, it showed a
lack of originality to go back to his
tory for her heroine, but surely no one
could truthfully call her a plagiarist.
This book of the letters of the notable
French woman is a republication in
spired by the gossip about Mrs. Wards
book, and is printed with an introduce
ton by the notable French critic,
Sainte-Beuve, which is a sketch of her
career, and rouses in the mind of the
reader far more of pity for the I'M
fortunate circumstances of her life
than is induced for the Julie of Lady
Roses Daughter" in which the condi-
tionS are the same. This French Julie
was all impulse and passion, and it is
evident that heredity played no small
part in shaping her career. The let
ters in the book are not many and are
addressed to the Comte de Guibert,
whom we are given TO understand
neither returned her love as she would
have wished, nor appreciated the great
emotion which he reused in her. The
French heroine took opium and in
various ways tried to stifle the sorrow
she felt at Guibert's Indifference, but,
after all, there is something more real
and healthy about her, and certainly
more candid, than there is in the re-
evolved.
In the October number OF the North
American Review Mrs. Fannie Humph-
rvs Gaffney replied to the article in
the August number of the same maya
zine, by a certain Mrs. Woolsey, who
has written a book to prove that wom-
EN- have an inferior position in this coun
try, and who wrote on the subject for
the Review Now, though Mrs. Gaff-
ney does not believe-as a loyal suf-
fragist she cannot-that women have
all the rights they should have, never
theless she takes issue with Mrs.
Woolsey, and thoroughly disagrees
with her in the idea that mon
arches make freer environment for
women than do republics. Mrs. Gaff-
ney writes well, and makes Mrs. Wool
Eeys rather hysterical appeal to the
women of this country to rise in re-
volt against the oppressor, man, ap-
pear altogether ridiculous. Mrs. Gaff-
ney declares that it was the United
States which took the initiative in the
struggle for equal rights, and that no.
where on the globe at present have
women as full rights, intellectual and
political, as right here in this country.
Mrs. Woolsey's sentimental talk about