Show women lathe united states no one thinks ol 01 asking whether or no a book be by a woman so completely has the tradition ot the difference in dignity between the been lost in france the tradition flourishes but in prance literature lias perspective a dif lerent air among our fc elves I 1 to add and without under taking in alie least to go into the question of the gain to literature by the change the position achieved by the sex formerly overshadowed has been a well fought battle in which that sex has returned again and again to the charge in other worda it women take up in notion tor instance an equal room in the public eye it is because they have been remarkably mar kably clever they have carried the defenses line by line and they may justly pretend that they have made the english novel speak their language henry james in english illustrated magazine |