The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-07-10
BY B AIL icy MIL ARD

scmblage OF atoms, she supplies mater
inl and forces, hut there is withal ever
IN AZ a developing, a guiding Idea. or p-s
paEen tly f-conscous unity which We
cannot explain. al
II we admit Lelands feea as to the
dream. we shall find ii curlously confirm
ed In many ways, though not absolutely.
i He gives some Illustration hut none Of
them actually proves MS case, He goes
on Interestingly however. along the lines
OF his soul very strongly developed in
them. and peculiarly Fascinating. He
lverif1es the ancient idea OF the Muse BY
scientific researches, and Declares that
great genluses, men like Shakespeare,
Goethe. Shelley, Byron and Darwin. ali !
had tho feminine soul very strongly
developed In them, Il and that colerIdge
somewher max es$a remark to that effect
This feminine aid Is not genius itself, nor
poetry, butsitsi is the Muse which inspires
men to write. Is Il u ::s.
ss54As 70 the male mind in woman, Mr.. Lee
land finds that IT. has conspicuous ex-#
am pies i'm the cases OF G gorge Sand and
| her disciple. g George Eliot. especially the
former al OF whose ggrea I works, lie de-
clares. We're not only sug gested. but act
uall ~ 5wri ten by m en-. 4 n 7
g gorge Eliot was sund olil, tedlya gen-
ius. says Mr.. Leland. but George Eliot
herself told me she had8read through 200 \
books In order to writ e Daniel Deronda.'s
K What we are to imply from this is that 4
81 he works were those offmen from whom
she imblbed sufficient knowledge to
write her grea move. 81 T he points made &
With respect TO women are too evasIye
nd al ffus We to Include in q brief review,
and they, are even less convincing than
those made in the case of the female
/ mind in man. Mr.. Leland shows close h
acquaintance With tile mental traits OF 4
women. He gives them credit for much
that is fine, and noble, but altogether#tho
picture he draws q their mentality is not
Gathering. He says of woman that she la &
more Yindic tive or reveng eful than man.,
That she never feels remorse In itsatrue
sense. She may bitterly regret having
done wrong when punishment overtakes
her, but seldom or never re penis the orig
}inal impulse. That she Is moresdeeply in- &
Bterested In personal matters but cares
less for subjects OF personal interest than
man. !s5 ft s53is t.t} II, F4Si 4 5 y
S5s He declares that women are creatures
of impulse-that Is, acting more prompt s
z ~ on first Impressions In all things good
and bad. He says thatsWomen have more
personal curiosity and inquisi tlyeness than
men, and are there fore more given TO gos-
zip. Hence a greater degree of.loaua-
city. " I'll 4. 1T 3 NJ 3 a .%
Women, he thinks, d re Gu riouslyi and ex-3
Etremely Indifferent to and unobserYantiof
interesting subjects which appea to every
man.. Thus 1t was saccura tely observed
that from morning to night there was
always a. crowd OF men and boys before
q certain shop window in Which there
was a worflng model Of some tnYentlon,s.
but no Wopan or glrl ever sfonped a IL
moment to look at ITS Il 81 AZ SS
"a witty. fllppants stinging repartee,
especially u 4 be lnans vera BILE; passes
With all wonen and also many men y. lie "A
says ras fully. equivalent to the most
logical and reasonable argument, Hence
the proneness Of the female sex to per-
$sonal reflection, side issues and the like
And he adds With proba blyS just shadow
5of bitterness, for whIch4the ladies will I
never forgiyeSh him, thatSin all cases Wo-
men prefer galning the Victory to estab,5
el!sh!ng truth, "a sasB sSS eS ~ Is SSs $
y, But, ladies' do not despair, You have,
With all your = goi}s of fashion and wan
llty, as the learned professor declares, i
3pmore plain sensible selhshness than man,
az we take the word In its true ana not
In Its restricted meaning. # $