ABSTRACT
THE knowledge of needs and realities which a woman of the upper and middle classes is ordinarily left to gather as she can in after life, had come to her early enough to serve as a foundation-a standing-ground from which she could gain a clearer and truer estimate of life. And this knowledge-denied, as far as denial is possible, to girls-is, of all knowledge, the most needful to any human being whose life is to be clear, consistent, and useful. It is only in Eden that the knowledge of good and evil, and the need of work, can be dispensed with; but some dim idea yet lingers of keeping the maidens of the world from both these things-an idea. so incompatible with the arrangement of tlie world, as to be fortunately impoBSible of complete execution.
