The Nineteenth Century, Vol. 36

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Excerpt from The Nineteenth Century, Vol. 36: A Monthly Review, July-December, 1894 This general satisfaction with exactly what exists at the date of signature, coupled with total inability to adopt any step ever so little in advance, irresistibly reminds me of the occasion on which a number of conservative-minded ladies (among whom I was numbered) pub lished in this very Review a protest against the alarming progress of women's su¿'rage. The authors of the protest screwed up courage to approve of precisely the amount of women's rights that then actually existed, including the sitting of women on County Councils. But whilst the proof was being circulated for signatures a legal decision excluded women from the latter sphere, whereupon we promptly withdrew our previous approval of the innovation A fellow-feelin g makes me wonder whether, if Mr. Asquith had been driven to further emasculate his own Factory Bill, and if Mr. Mun della had drapped his Arbitration Bill, the Duke of Devonshire and his colleagues would not have repeated our pretty manceuvre to be abreast, 'yet no whit in front, of the times, and cut out even their tiny residuum of positive recommendations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.