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poorest; and again, in the upper regions of education, rising into the work of such missionaries of the highest training as Mary Lyon in the past, or Alice Freeman in the present.
Compared with these lives, how petty seem the little struggles for position and etiquette?
In what lingering childishness does the most exalted womanhood of Europe seem still to be involved when we read in the telegraphic headings, “Great indignation of Queen Victoria,” and find that this excitement relates, not to the tremendous Irish problem and the threatened dismemberment of her empire, but to the hesitation of certain courts of Europe to accord to Prince Henry Something-or-other, her latest son-in-law, the title of “His royal Highness!”
Harper and Brothers, Franklin Square, New York. 1888.
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