ABSTRACT
The first section bears the heading: "Woman's physiology, her vocation as mother, her intellectual work." The first of these points is dealt with in a manner that is technical enough for medical purposes. The second section of the book ,:s entitled: "Motherhood in its relation to the various branches of intellectual work." These are taken in the following order:- The theatre, music, plastic art, poetry, science, " agitation "-by which the authors mean lecturing and public speaking-and journalism and essay writing. It is in the chapter on what is called" agitation" that the main omission of the book seems to lie. This may be easily accounted for by the fact that there is an important sphere of work in which EngliEh and American women take an active share, but from which German women are for the most part excluded-we mean the public unpaid service of the country, such as sitting on Boards of Guardians, School Boards, Parish Councils and Committees of various kinds. In England the experience of married women as Guardians of the Poor is invaluable, and as many of them are mothers of families their testimony would have been interesting. Not that the weight of evidence is-as has been indicated-in any way lacking, but this would have made it more fully representative.
