ABSTRACT
The names of the writers are sufficient guarantee that the three educational articles contain many points of interest. It is gratifying to our national vanity to see how English views on the training of girls are leavening those of other countries. This is especially evident in Mme. de Witt's article, in which she speaks frankly of the influence of English ideas, and, though -she naturally clings to the system in which she herself has been brought up, she gives to the new system distinct if not unqualified approval. For Dutch women Mrs. Lecky claims an educational pedigree of at least 200 years, and points with justifiable pride to the social estimation in which her countrywomen have been held from the earliest days in which Holland had a history. Her description of the education and home life of Dutch girls shows that the women of the rising· generation are trained to be no unworthy representatives of their ancestresses. A sound elementary education is given to all girls; there are excellent schools for the middle and upper classes, and a University career is open to them if they care to avail themselves of it. Apparently few women do this, probably because, though no obstacle is put in their way by the men, the latter do not encourage, but "rather deprecate learning in a woman."
