ABSTRACT
Countess Cowper draws attention to the disappearance of the habit of reserve which in the last generation '' was instilled into t.he minds of the young as an almost:religious doctrine." The. decline of this habit, " the breakdown of what had become far too hard a wall of reserve," may, she fears, "lead to many regrettable results." Her article is a warning against these, though she owns that the change to greater freedom of manner and absence of shyness has proved of immense advantage in philanthropic works, the success of which "depends upon the possession of and the power of also giving out an unreserved sympathy and an unbounded loT e."
