The Humanitarian will be allowed even by those who differ
toto cab ° from many of the opinions expressed in it, to be an interesting magazine, and not nearly so eccentric as might be expected from the fact that, as we learn from the title-page, it is "edited by Victoria Woodhull Martin." The February number is an excellent one in many ways. Mr. Stopford Brooke tells "The Story of the Women's Trades-Union League;" disciples of Mrs. Lynn Linton will greatly enjoy "The Case of the Helots ; " and a great deal both of sentimental and of scientific nonsense may be dispelled by the reading of an interview with Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace on "Heredity and Pre-Natal Influences." Dr. Wallace says, among other things, "I believe that the unfit will be gradually eliminated from the race, and human progress secured, by giving to the pure instincts of women the selective power in marriage."
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