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girls also. With regard to first-grade schools, I should recommend that, in addition to the Howell's School at Denbigh and Llandaff, the fine revised foundation at Ashford, which I hope may yet be removed to Wales, the excellent school at Dolgelly, in North Wales, and the possible High School at Aberystwith, additional schools, possibly at Beaumaris, in North Wales, or one at some point in Glamorganshire, or another in Monmouthshire, should be established forthwith. To all the privileges, emoluments, or degrees of the schools or colleges, girls or young women should be admitted as freely in every respect as young men. The experience of University College, Bristol, as detailed to the Commissioners by its accomplished Principal, shows that, with proper care, no difficulty whatever exists in educating young men and women together; but rather that they naturally stimulate and encourage each other in their studies. And the example of Girton and Newnham at Cambridge, and the new Oxford Colleges for Girls, shows how thoroughly young women enter into the spirit of educational competition with young men. That any new institution, such as is proposed in Wales, should deny to them the certificate of fitness and achievement, so valuable in the profession of teaching, which a degree implies, should be wholly impossible at the present day.

Remarkable Women as Examples for Girls. By ANN SWAINE. Sunday School Association, 37, Norfolk Street, W.C.

Lives of great men all remind us

We can make our lives sublime,

And there is nothing so encouraging to young aspirants after usefulness and honour as the perusal of the lives of those steadfast and noble men and women who have done excellent work by their talents and perseverance. Miss Swaine has taken her examples from women who varied greatly in ability, in position, in life and in the direction in which they applied themselves-the main thing she has endeavoured to teach has been earnestness and thoroughness in whatever they attempted, and from Honora Nagle, the poor Ursuline nun of Cork, to Princess Alice of Hesse, these short sketches convey the same lesson. Caroline Herschel and Mary Somerville represent the women who have made science their object, Harriet Martineau, Ann Taylor and Charlotte Bronté, each in their own degree, the women of letters, Amalie de Lassaulx and Sister Dora, the women who have devoted their lives to nursing the sick and suffering, Mary Carpenter, senior, the woman of business, Catherine Tait, the philanthropist. Miss Swaine does not attempt to give more than a slight sketch of each,

the materials of which are taken from biographies that have already been published, but she has seized the salient facts of each life and much of its individual colouring, and made of it an instructive and engaging book which any girl can comprehend, and which will incite her to be painstaking and persevering in whatever she undertakes. The lives of many more women might have been added with advantage, and we hope that the success of the present volume will warrant the production of a second series.

Married Women's Property Act for 1882 with Notes and Explanations. Mr. Holdsworth, barrister-at-law, has published the above, price 1s., G. Routledge. Other books on the subject, by Mr. Thicknesse and Mr. H. N. Mozley, will soon be ready.

RECORD OF EVENTS.

MEDICAL WOMEN.

THE following ladies have passed the examination of the King's and Queen's College of Physicians, Ireland. For the license to practice medicine and midwifery, July 10th, 11th and 12th

Miss Katherine Mitchell, London; Mrs. Julia Caroline Mitchell Swaagman, London.

For the quarterly first professional examination, July 10th and 11th

Mrs. Mary Emily Dowson, London; Miss Annie McCall, London; Miss Agnes Russell, London; Miss Florence Nightingale Toms, London: Miss Jane Harriet Walker, all students of the London School of Medicine for Women who passed the above examinations at the date stated.

LONDON MEDICAL SCHOOL FOR WOMEN.

On October 2nd the session for 1882-3 opened, Dr. DUPRÉ, F.R.S., was the lecturer at the London School of Medicine for Women, Henrietta Street, Brunswick

Square. He began by alluding to the subject of technical education in this country, and then reviewed the objections raised against the opening of the medical profession to women, in the hope of confirming old friends in their resolution to support the school, and of converting opponents. He contended that it was a reasonable wish expressed by some girls and women to be attended by a practitioner of their own sex, and it should be supplied if possible. It had been stated that women, physically, were not strong enough for many operations in surgery and obstetrics, but skill could nearly always replace mere strength. Now that operations were performed under anaesthetics, which produced muscular relaxation as well as insensibility, physical strength was rarely required by the operator, and when force was necessary, it might generally be supplied by mechanical means; but it was specially important for women to acquire skill in order to dispense with force. To the objection that women had not sufficient nerve a similar reply might be given. Trained skill enabled the possessor to meet difficulties which would otherwise be overwhelming. He gave it as his opinion that the most highly-gifted woman fell short intellectually of the most gifted men; but he did not consider that intellectual superiority implied absolute superiority. The average intellect of men was by no means superior to that of women; moreover, women excelled in qualities which were of special value in the medical profession, such as a stronger sense of moral responsibility and self-respect, greater tenderness, more conscientiousness. Here was the anxious nature more likely to recognise danger. She might therefore fairly look forward to gain an honourable position in the arduous profession she had chosen, even though she might not rival their greatest physicians and surgeons.

A vote of thanks to Dr. Dupré was proposed by the Rev. LLEWELLYN DAVIS and seconded by Mr. ĞANT, F.R.C.S., who said "that in his position as senior surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital he had had frequent opportunities of observing the conscientious devotion of the students of the school to their duties as dressers."

CHRISTIAN WOMEN'S REFORM.

Among the many conferences which have been held during the past month, the above, which took place at Brighton on September 5th and two following days, deserves special attention. It is a hopeful sign for the future when a number of Christian women meet together representing many different phases of practical effort, to discuss seriously the best means of carrying out large moral reforms. The Association is "intended to embrace all classes of women, and to include all subjects in which Christian women are concerned," and on the present occasion the programme was very comprehensive. Mrs. MEREDITH was the President. The members met at ten in the Music Room of the Royal Pavilion for prayer; at eleven a general meeting was held in the same room, at which papers were read and discussed, and in the afternoon three sectional meetings were held at which questions relating to religion, morals and education were discussed. The arrange

ments reflected great credit not only on Mrs. Meredith, the President, but on the Hon. Secs. Miss Caroline Cavendish and Miss M. A. Lloyd, and the Local Committee, of which Miss M. J. Goodrich is Hon. Sec.

The first day the President gave an address upon the work of the Union, after which Mrs. THORNE, Hon. Sec. of the London School of Medicine for Women, read a paper on the "Preparation for the legal practice of Medicine," which gave a clear and comprehensive account of the rise of the School and the thorough nature of the training which all entering the medical career must be prepared to undergo. At the same time she urged women not to neglect so important a career of usefulness. Miss BEILBY'S paper in her absence, was then read by the Secretary. It was on "Medical Training of Women Missionaries for India," and was written to answer two questions. First, is it necessary for ladies who intend to work as doctors in the Zenanas of India to go through the full curriculum of study at a recognized medical school? Second: is it necessary for such ladies to obtain a diploma, or license, before they commence their labours in India?

To both these questions a decided affirmative was given; it was pointed out that though there was work to be done in India by partly qualified lady doctors acting under properly qualified ones in the capacity of nurses or Zenana hospital assistants, that to engage in the work of healing without complete qualification was calculated to do more harm than good.

At the afternoon meetings on Moral Questions Mrs. STEWARD of Ongar, who presided, gave a painfully interesting address, instancing the dreadful occurrences of the vile continental traffic in English girls. Miss LIDGETT (guardian of St. Pancras) read a paper on the "Girls in Pauper Schools." In the Temperance Section, Miss HARFORD BATTERSBY read a paper. At the evening meeting, to which gentlemen were admitted, general subjects, as "Coffee House Missions," "Thrift and Self-reliance" &c., were discussed.

The following day Mrs. POWER read a paper on "The Mission of the Teacher, with special reference to the times." She urged teachers to look upon religious training as the most important part of their undertaking, one apt to be lost sight of under the present crush of acquirements. The same subject was followed up by Miss L. M. Moor in a paper on "Biblical knowledge versus Agnosticism," which awakened a brisk discussion. In the afternoon Mrs. CASSON presided over the Temperance Section, where Miss MASON gave an address and Mrs. RUSHTON a paper on "Total Abstinence among the young." In the Moral Section, Miss BEWICKE read a paper on "Modern Heathenism," which was caused, she said, by the faithlessness of Christians. In the evening meeting, addresses were given by many ladies upon Foreign Missions, in China, Japan, Paris &c.

On the third and last day the morning session was occupied by Miss WHATELY, who gave an account of her sister's Mission Schools in Egypt, which from small beginings had grown to be a most important factor of civilisation in that country. In connection with these schools a Medical Mission had been opened. Two months ago Miss Whately had been compelled to fly for her life, but the work is only suspended, and as soon as the country is open, she will recommence. Mrs.