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ing winx Isabella Thorpe, That a dif creditable elopement cams of naughty Lydia Bendet's friendship (or a flighty (BY ROWLAND GEWY.)

bride we also delight to hear. The wily, The aurliest detractors of the daughter.

vulgar flatterer, Mrs. Clay, hoodwinks of to-day will be compelled, if they have the proud Elisabeth Elliott by her For sussion." All dear Emma's misfortunet a rag of logic or discernment, to admit were due to her foolish infatuation for that she has made grand progress in one the inane Harriet. Miss Crawford tried beautiful art-the art of friendship Be-

to undermine Fanny's morals at "Mans cause she has done this unostentatiously Seld Park," and "Lady Susan the fact is often overlooked, set if she be traitress to every friend she bad. proved guilty of the thousand crimes Jaid

TIMININE PERFIDY. to her charge she frequently links with

Maria Edgeworth devotes whole them ons virtue-the virtue of faithful-wearisome novel to feminine perfidy in ness with her comrades.

**Leonora," whose bore of a husband The modern

made a slow "fight" to Richmond with woman, we are well aware, lus broken Olivia, and was such a dull dog it is the shackling chains of circumstance, and inconceivable either of them could have wanted hims The biter was bit, for gone out boldly into the open, braving Olivia's adored Gabrielle annexed & the slings and arrows of contumely, She French lover she had left in Paris till has prospered there to a degree highly she had done with Mt. L 13 he exasperating to those who not altogether was mysteriously called. The famous without cause, quarrel with her methods. "asher," Harriot Freke, also played the Like all pioneers, aho has made mistakes scurriest tricks upon her quondam ally because she is human, yes the little foxes Lady Delacour in Belinda." Despite that spoil the grapes have not been strong Shakespeare's pretty picture of Helena enough to ravage the vineyard.

and Hermia, the beat of pala till magic meddled with them, schoolgirl friendships have been if the past a synonym for a weak, washy, everlasting food" of sentimentality. To-day how many women found permanent friendships in the broad-minded, intelligent atmosphere of the best schools, replacing auch seminaries for young ladies as those of the immortal.. Mrs. Goddard, of Highbury; the Semi- ramie of Hammersmith," Miss Pinkerton;

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What George Gissing called "The super Aluook woman" was not merely the title of a painful fiction; it embodied i statistical fact. When her voice was first "heard pleading the right to exist. a chorus of male and female Talleyrands bastened to assure her they saw no neces sity for her to take that liberty. There she was, stubbornly opposed if she ven- tured to obey the sane and sober counsels of the Church estethism to "learn and the establishment at Kinerva House, labour truly to get her own living. where one "For saw the two Mis "Got leave to work in this world 'tis the Crumptons, looking about as happy sa best you'll get at all." The clarion call a couple of marigolds run to seed of Mrs. Browning stirred the heart like Thackeray had an especially low estimate a trumpet, and helped to raise an army, of friendshipa feminine. Amelia's con- at Erst undisciplined, and with officers stancy to Becky cost her dear, and the weak, it may be, yet ready to lead what little baggage, Blanche Amory, sang the bore the aspect of a forlorn hope. dirge of thousand disillusions with ber Happily for ourselves, we do not live in soul-sisters in "Mea Larmes," the blue an age of sensibility, and boast only a velvet with the silver key. The fickleness, fow.de Stacla to bewail the triste the folino amenities of female friendship. utilite" of the modern woman, replacing are topics as threadbare as the misdoings the fragrance, the glamour of her ances of mothers-in-law or the dulness of the Yet the trees of that most uncertain of all dates husbands of the handsome..

the good old times. These comfortably nobler aspects of these friendships have ignore the dismal position of the spinster been reverently recognised by modern of that halcyon period when youth was genius Charlotte Bronte naturally dwelt passed.

Her own They share the lackadaisical fenderly upon the subject. Ruskin, belief that there are seven suitors friendship with the homely Miss Nussey ready to be

for every is a ray of sunshine on her shadowed really nice damsel, overlooking the un- path. Its short and simple annals are compromising census figures insisting that set forth in

Shirley with reticent there is not a man apiece even for the beauty. The prayer for work for women deserving. They wholly ignore the in this book makes its writer the evange- charming certainty that "the womanist of the working woman, and she knew worker has brought the essential sweet ness and light into her new career by cultivating the flower" of friendship to a radiant perfection. She illustrates the ripe wisdom of Mr. Hardy's conviction that the affection many waters cannot quench comes from community of labour, not amusement. In learning to be a worker of no despicable, parts, she has learnt to be a friend, not merely to the enrichment of her own character. but to the advantage of those about her. It was a very valiant woman, Mary Russell Mitford, who told us that friendship was "the bread of the heart." She knew that enchanted banquets of love's nectar and ambrosia are not for all, yet that for all who are honest and kind there is a possible share of this wholesome, satisfy- ing food-the staff of spiritual life,

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that friendship was an integral part of the gospel she preached with such power. George Eliot forgot her severity towards the good-looking of her own sex for once in her touching story of the love of passionate Maggie Tulliver for the gentle yet strong Lucy Deane. Lucy could for give the unwitting theft of her lover, and Maggie could renounce for Lucy's sake

George Eliot herself did worthy tounge to the golden friendship true to itself, despite the hardest trial. Nor have great men been backward in recognition. Lizzie Hexam and the Doll's Dressmaker. in "Our Mutual Friend," prove how well Dickens comprehended the comradeship of labour juslly ranking it high among "whatsoever things are lovely.

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Mr. Thomas Hardy, in that master- piece. The Mayor of Casterbridge," The best type of modern woman-and underlines the pure unselfishness of the it would be unfair to instance any other devotion of Elizabeth Jane to the broken is a good friend. Little more than a cen- butterfly Lacetta. Elizabeth soars high tury ago travellers went out of their way shove jealousy, and forgets all Lucetia'a to stare at the Ladies of Llangollen. faults in a warm flood of womanly com- They had money. They might have dwelt passion for her unborn child. Vainly genteelly with genteel relatives They the tries to draw the curtains and save might surely have purchased husbands Lucetta the degrading sight of her own before the Married Woman's Property effigy upon a Act had direly infringed masculine pre- 10gative. Yet such was their eccentricity that they set up housekeeping together, and enjoyed themselves thoroughly till Diana of the Crossways" was saved by death did the part. Such "ladies" that elect soul Emms, Lady Dunstane, cheerfully exist in legions to-day. They with her sense. her scholarship, and the are undisturbed by busybodies because courage dauntlessly facing the terror of they have ceased to be novelties. Many an operation when anesthetics were not." of them might have preferred the duties Twice, indeed, she saves her "Tony" on and joys of wifehood and motherhood. the brink of destruction and brings her Yet, acceptink the inevitable, they neither peak nor pipe, existing usefuly and Agreeably instead of in soured solitude or humiliating dependence. The old maid" has acquired her new dignity honourably by using her awa brains. Occasionally she takes outsiders into con fidence pleasantly, as when, at a seaside These "examples it" may be contended, restaurant in Holland, two friends are bus fiction. What of those written in Dutch and English, kept the silver wed the "Book of Life during the Great ding of their friendship with a gala War? Then Jinuer all bedecked with white flowers shoulder to shoulder, and in how many women learnt to stand The mere men invited enjoyed the sparkle a sacred instance to prove their love for of the merry little festival. and none each other strong as death? Through the remembered the graceful beatcsacs were irreparable loss for many of woman's old maids" when they gave their toasts greatest vocation has come this gain-she in brilliant Lashion. These friends are has learnt to make and keep friends quite unsentimental, straight and

back to pence with honour. Diana-re- turns from her mad tryst with Dacier to succour the friend to whom she has vowed faith in her hour of torment. She learns what Lady Dunstane really is in a chapter which is the apotheosis of woman's friendship.

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in their relations, when, as in touch upon the wide question of friend- instances. the companionship endures

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Friendship. like marriage, than

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sion. On the other hand, the recent are set in the heart of London, friends biography of Martin Ross," by her and fellow workers, with their achieve. lifelong associate and collaborator, rement to testify what such a bond may veals the exquisite qualities which | mean.Daily Telegraph.

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And do invest an ideal friendship between fellow-workers. It is the first classic of a possible series. May, it have many a BUCCARBOT. The art of friendship between women is developing rapidly, to brighten the difficult days of reconstruction and to supply a felt want.

To be convinced of progress nay, triumph-in this respect, it is instructive to take a hasty glance at the attitude of

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