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marriage, I think that the apprehension would he very well founded. I agree in thinking it probable that few women, capable of anything else, would, unless under an irresistible entraine- ment, rendering them for the time insensible to anything but itself, choose such a lot, when any other means were open to them of tilling a conventionally honourable place in life : and if men are determined that the law of marriage shall be a law of despotism, they are quite right, in point of mere policy, in leaving to women only Hobsoids choice. But, in that case, all that has been done in the modern world to relax the chain on the minds of women, has been a mistake. They never should have been allowed to receive a literary education. Women who read, much more women who w'rite, are, in the existing constitution of things, a contradiction and a disturbing element: and it w r as wrong to bring women up with any acquirements but those of an odalisque, or of a domestic servant.