blatant lies. When I found out what I really was in for, it was too late to draw back -no, it wasn't!" she cried, "the habit of lying is growing upon me, but then I was ashamed-too much of a coward. Look here!" she continued, speaking to Mrs. Fallows, "advise every girl you care about, not to try experiments in marriage, and to read the marriage service with the man she is engaged to, standing opposite to her, before she dares to quote it in church before all the rag-tag and bob-tail of society."

In all that occurred the parents figured only more or less passively, and as if each little interruption was a loss of valuable time.

After a honeymoon in travel about the Continent, the couple returned to their country place in England. But there grew up no love on the part of Gwen. Strange was patient, but the duplicity of such a life on the part of Gwen was almost unendurable. She tried conscientiously to cultivate something of affection for her husband, who was in her eyes a noble man of high character. Once Sir Humphrey came near being killed by a railroad train as he attempted to save the life of another. Although Gwen witnessed the scene it was without the slightest passion. Again, both came near being killed in a runaway. After Gwen recovered her strength, and when left alone in the room, she cried, "It is ghastly, it is degradation, feeling toward him as I do, and as I've always done! I

am debased to think that any man should have the least part of a woman so terribly in his power when she can't, can't, can't,” she almost shrieked, "give him the best! What do girls know of the things they make lawful for themselves? If they did, if they were shown the nature of their sacrifice, then marriage would cease till it carried love, absolute love in its train. Was I mad, my God! was I mad, with all my boasts of sanity? Nothing, nothing," she moaned, "but perfect love makes marriage sacred, neither God's law nor man's. Talk of the shame of women who have children out of the pale of marriage, it's nothing to the shame of those who have children and don't love." It all came in time-the separation. Sir Humphrey went to Africa, where he nearly died. During his absence, a number of things occurred. Gwen's mother realized that her purely intellectual life had been a failure, and she died of grief for her lost years of motherhood to her children. On her death-bed, Gwen, who was at her side, felt the first thrill of her mother's love. Then to her came her own little boy and a telegram was sent away to Africa, to bring the exiled husband home, for in some mysterious. way her heart had been opened after all these years of suffering that cannot be adequately told in words.

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ILL you help? It is so easy to do only what one is compelled to do, and yet any effort in a good cause repays us an hundred fold. Make up your mind to secure at least one new subscriber. I have edited for Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick a little booklet, "Gems from the Poets," containing a choice number of poems from our best poets, all beautifully illustrated. It will be sent, if you wish it, to each one who sends in a subscriber with the regular subscription price, $2.00.

How anxious I am to make this REVIEW a great power for good. But one young man can do but little. There must be the co-operation of hundreds of others. Such work brings its own rewards.

Acknowledgments are due Mrs. E. B. Grannis, the President of the "National Christian League for the Protection of Social Purity," for notices concerning the following bill, which was introduced in the New York Legislature:

The National Christian League for the Promotion of Social Purity presents the following bill to the New York State Legislature:

AN ACT

To amend Chapter V. of Title X. of the Penal

SECTION 300A. *** Each party, if he or she knowingly commits the offense of adultery, shall be punishable by a fine of not less than one thousand dollars, nor more than five thousand dollars, and by imprisonment for not less than one year, nor more than five years.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect imme

diately.

There appears to be an unaccountable delay in passing through the Legislature at Albany the bill presented by the National Christian League for the Promotion of Social Purity, for the punishment of the crime of adultery. By the State Code this crime is not at present a legal offense, while the crime of perjury, to which it is A conseakin, is severely punishable. quence of this neglect is that the extrajudicial punishment for one branch of the crime, the defilement of a wife, ranges all the way from nothing to the death penalty.. An eminent American jurist, Edward Livingston, in his work, "A System of Penal Law for Louisiana," at page 173, says of adultery:

"As far as I am informed, it figures in the penal law of all nations except the English, and some of their most celebrated lawyers have considered the omission as a defect.. Neither the immorality of the act nor its.

adultery.

The people of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Chapter V. of Title X. of the Penal Code is hereby amended by the addition of a section to be known as Section 300A, which shall read as follows:

women,

and very often on the peace of

society and the lives of its members, can be denied. The reason, then, why it should go unpunished does not seem very clear.

Where the law refuses to punish this offense, the injured party will do it for himself; he will break the public peace

and commit the greatest of all crimes, and he is rarely or never punished."

This stigma still rests on English law and also on the law of the State of New York, whose jurisprudence was largely taken from England, the bad with the good. Moreover, there is a tendency in all English-speaking communities to square themselves in respect of their morals down to or below the level of their statute law, and hence it is that in England, among no inconsiderable section of the people, adultery is scarcely esteemed to be a crime at all. From this evil contingency NewYorkers cannot hope to escape unless they discard their English precedent and amend their law up to a point somewhat nearer civilized decency; and it is to be hoped that the Legislature at Albany will speedily set a good example to the rest of the continent, Canada included, in this important matter. Montreal. D. A. WATT.

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HESE are times that try men's souls, and every kindly man and woman sufciently free from the struggle to look on and consider, will ask, "What can I do?" Power lies in simplicity. The ideas here submitted are simple ideas and not new, only newly adapted. It is conceded by many thinking people that the settlement plan of work among the poor has over other and less personal methods an advantage which has been compared to the difference between visiting people and living with them. However, the world has not as yet arrived at the point where educated people in large numbers will give themselves to this work. In the meantime it is suggested that Mohamet go to the mountain now in this needy time, and if the comfortable people will not live among the uncomfortable people, let them bring the children, at least, of the uncomfortable people

to live with them. In other words, the plan is to have the settlement idea established in the country. There the educating and uplifting influences can be carried on as now in the cities.

Others will find, as we are finding out, that the people to be benefited will meet them half way, and in some cases defray their actual expenses.

It seems a little thing for a few people in comfortable circumstances, young women in particular, to lease the use of part of a farm-house and "the run of the place," from the resident farmer, and agree to serve there, off and on, in the capacity of settlement workers and teachers, obtaining necessary assistants as required. And it seems a little thing, then, to offer real farm life, food and air, and refining influences, to a few children and an occasional elder, at a nominal rate of cost. Dr. Parkhurst says, "Don't pauperize if you can help it," and we agree with him.

Yes, these are little things, but if any one wants to try it, he will find a surprising need for just these little things.

Our comfortable people are going to Europe by the thousands, to "economize,” some say. It does not cost much to stay at a farm under the conditions we suggest, and there you can gather around you others who are economizing, too, at a terrible rate.

A man would hardly escape from a ship in distress alone while room remained in the boat and others were crying for help.

To make every penny of your gift tell, give yourself with it. At this stage of the nation's distress service has become less a matter of choice than a point of honor and an obligation of common humanity.

We have proved that the thing is feasible. This is the time to open a thousand farm settlements.

THE FARM SETTLEMENT.

BOOK NOTICES. Justin McCarthy's new novel, "Red Diamonds," is said to be full of stirring incidents, which form a story of exceptional interest to men as well as women.

In the eleventh chapter of "A Traveler from Altruria," which Harper & Brothers issued recently in book form, W. D. Howells writes of a power in the state that "had always bought the law it needed for its own use, first through the voter at the polls in the more primitive days, and then, as civilization advanced, in the legislatures and the courts." The whole passage in which this sentence occurs is of striking contemporaneous interest.

An edition of one thousand copies of Mr. W. M. Conway's great work, "Climbing in the Himalayas," has been sold in England, where the book is the literary feature of the season, and large editions have been sold in India and the colonies. The American

edition, published by D. Appleton & Co., has met with the reception due "an epochmaking book," to use the language of one critical journal.

"The Claims of Christianity," a striking work by the brilliant English writer, W. S. Lilly, is to be published immediately by D. Appleton & Co. The author takes what might be termed the publicist's point of view, and deals with Christianity as a fact in the world's history. He maintains the necessity of organized spiritual power to vindicate the rights of conscience, especially in our age, when the tendency is to strengthen the state against the individual. Mr. Lilly's historical analysis and incisive discussion of the vital questions of the day form a most timely and suggestive volume.

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Ostade.

A Loan of Half Orphans.
Pudd'nhead Wilson.

Tissot's Illustrations of the Gospels.
The Mother of Ivan Tourgueneff.
On a Mission for Kossuth.

The Government of German Cities.
The Consular Service and the Sports
System.

COSMOPOLITAN.
JUNE.

Famous Hunting Parties of the
Plains.

A Post Astronomer.
The Fjords of Norway.
The Home of Joan of Arc.

How to Preserve Health and Attain
Strength.

The Modern German Drama and Its Author.

The Panama Scandal.

Jim Lancy's Waterloo.

Dinner Very Informally.
Karma a la Mode.

DEMOREST'S.

JULY.

A Day on an Ice Field.

Some Giants of Prehistoric AmerDica.

Ocean Life in Island Homes.

Men Who Make the Best Husbands. Among the Palmettos.

The Pequot's Cave.

The Road to Fame or Fortune.
How to Play the Violin without a
Master.

What Women Are Doing.

Hard Times and Our National Peril.

FORUM.

JUNE.

Farmers, Fallacies and Furrows. Who Will Pay the Bills of Socialism? The Useless Risk of the Ballot for Women.

Results of the Woman-Suffrage Movement.

The Threatening

Romanism.

Conflict with

Why Church Property Should Not Be Taxed.

Scholarships, Fellowships and the Training of Professors.

The Renewed Agitation for Silver Coinage.

The Success of Christian Missions in India.

The Census of Sex, Marriage and Divorce.

How Baltimore Banished Tramps and Helped the Idle.

The Antarctic's Challenge to the Explorer.

HARPER'S.

JUNE.

The City of Homes.

A Kentucky Cardinal. Part II.
Vignettes of Manhattan. VI.

My First Visit to New England. W.
D. Howells.

French Diplomacy Under the Third Republic.

Trilby.

A Waitress.

The Japanese Spring.

Little Big Horn Medicine.

Memoirs of Wendell Phillips.

LIPPINCOTT'S.
JUNE.

The Wonder-witch.
Sea-Island Cotton Re-spun.
The Passing of the Essay.
The Rumpety Case.

The New Northwest Passage to the
Orient.

Two, in the "Other Half."
Hot Work on the Pampas.
My First Literary Acquaintances.
NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW.

JUNE.

Protection and the Proletariat.
Fashion and Intellect.

What Should a Doctor Be Paid?
The Political Outlook in England.
The New York State University.
The Menace of "Coxeyism."
The Modern Girl.

Mexico Under President Diaz.
Our Family Skeleton.

Woman Suffrage in Practice.
Bishop Doane and American Roman
Catholics.

The Problem of the Racing Yacht Continental Finances.

How to Relieve Congress.
The Cry of the Women.
A Tale of Two Capitols.

OUTING. JUNE.

The Curse of the Winkleys.
Romance of a Dry Ranch.
Hunting with the Patagonian

Welshmen.

In the Land of the Bread-fruits.
A Woman in Camp.

The Birch-bark Canoe.

Hints for Amateur Sailormen.
Afoot in the Hartz.

A Blue-grass Cycling Tour.
Lenz's World Tour Awheel.
An Indian Ball Game.
Bird Loves.

Black Bass Fishing in Eastern

Waters.