ABSTRACT
The wonder is that with all these disadvantages women have been known to invent anything. Their efforts have of COUl'se been mostly in the direction of the fine arts, as is natural from the bias of their education; nevertheless, in America, where women are more self-dependent, many little discoveries and improvements nave been made in machiues of household economy by women, and the Centennial Exhibition, which reserves a special department for female work, will probably make these better known. But in literatm'e, where women have stood more on an equality with men, there is no lack of invention on their part-rather, perhaps, we arE> disposed to hail with pleasure the production of any practical work of science or fact from their pens. In painting, though from the want of anatomical studies women have been placed at a disadvantage, ,ve find no want of creative faculty in them; in sculpture, Miss Hosmer shows as keen lDventive powers as any man. 'Two years ago, an Italian lady, the Marchioness Jannari, re-Wscovered the art of illuminating vellum which was fO~f~tton in Italy; she received' a prize at the Vienna E 'bition for the superb specimen of the art which she sent.
