ABSTRACT
All our friends must have heard with deep regret last summer that Miss Frances Power Cobbe tendered her resignation of the office of Hon. Secretary of the Victoria Street Society, though still retaining her place on the Committee. The success of the Society has been for so many years so intimately associated with Miss Cobbe's genius and energy that it is difficult not to believe it must suffer from even, as we hope, her temporary retirement. She founded the Association; she watched over it, defended it from abuse and misrepresentation; she made it a really formidable body to counteract this great evil; she has formed public opinion upon the subject. For ten years she can justly claim she never let one single day pass by without doing something for her cause. Her high standing as a moral teacher enabled her to place the question, as few others could have done so well, on firm moral grounds, and herein she created an immense extra force, for on these grounds the unscientific woman is equally strong 444in argument with the scientist. Miss Cobbe devoted her talents, her whole time, and her whole heart, to the work, and it was little wonder therefore that she needed rest, and must for a while leave the vanguard of the battle to the younger and stronger.
