The Education of Girls; the Employment of Women. Two Lectures.
By W. B. Hodgson, LL.D. (Traner.)—Dr. Hodgson deserves all the credit which should belong to an early advocate of a cause that is about to succeed. The former of these two lectures was published in 1865; and four years have brought about an amazing change in the state of the question. Nothing can be more to our minds than that the effort to educate women properly should precede the effort to give them political rights. These, surely, they will have quite as soon as they are fit for them ; very probably, if we may judge from the previous history of the franchise, before. We heartily agree, again, with the proposition that
the same education should be given to boys and girls. That being once settled, there can be no more talk of substituting for education properly so called the professional teaching which arrogates to itself the name of useful. We commend Dr. Hodgson's pamphlet to the attention of our readers.
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