ABSTRACT
Cltnglis ~lngm an's ~tbitln. CONTENTS FOR JULY, 1908.
No. CCLXXIX.-OCTOBER 15TH, 1908.
THE completion of the fiftieth year since the first issue of the ENGLISHWOMAN'S REVIEW, then the Englishwoman's Journal, reminds us, as such anniversaries usually do, of the immense difference between now and then. and the progress achieved in all branches of women's activities. Any chronicle of the history of the REVIEW would be equivalent to writing that of the whole woman's movement, of which it is itself the princi~al general register, containing the whole contemporary story of each successive effort after wider ?PPOrtunities of employment and training, for entrance mto professional life, into a wider and more extended scheme of education, and the attainment of University degrees; or the whole story of the now forty years' s~ruggle for the Parliamentary vote for women on the hke terms as it is granted to men. Each of these would fill many volumes-and the volumes have been written in plenty ; but we may certainly say that all through the rise and progress of the various movements, the ENGLISHWOMAN's REVIEW has been the one contemporary and living chronicle of their history in the making, its "Annual Register," in fact, as the Work of Edmund Burke was the political history of ~is day. It bears, we may say, therefore, the same relatiOn to the woman's movement that medireval works, as the
"Auglo-Saxon Chronicle," :M;atthew Paris, William of Worcester, and Gregory, bore to the events of their own time, and is worthy to be similarly regarded in times to come as the first-hand, and practically original source of information on its special subjects. Its value, therefore, is no doubt destined to increase, rather than diminish, or become forgotten, as time goes .on, and fresh. victories •9.re gained.
