rnoon preceding the convention the Rev. Anna Howard
Shaw preached for a Men's Meeting at Whitefield's, Tottenham Court
Road, the most of the large and interested audience hearing for the
first time a sermon by a woman. On the Sunday following the convention
she preached in the morning for the West London Ethical Society in the
Kensington Town Hall and in the evening at the King's Weigh House
Chapel, Duke Street, Grosvenor Square. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon
the Rev. Canon Scott Holland gave a sermon in St. Paul's Cathedral,
the national church, on the Religious Aspect of Women's Suffrage, with
two hundred seats reserved for the delegates, and they felt a deep
thrill of rejoicing at hearing within those ancient walls a strong
plea for the enfranchisement of women. They were invited to attend the
next evening a symposium by the Shakespeare League at King's College
on What Shakespeare Thought of Women.

SIXTH CONFERENCE OF THE ALLIANCE.

The Sixth Conference and Congress of the International Woman Suffrage
Alliance took place in the banquet hall of the Grand Hotel, Stockholm,
June 12-17, 1911. The coming of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of
the Alliance, had been widely heralded. She had been received in
Copenhagen with national honors by cabinet ministers and foreign
legations; the American flag run up for her wherever she went and the
Danish colors dipped and there was almost a public ovation. In
Christiania she was met with a greeting from a former Prime Minister
and an official address of welcome from the Government and was
received by King Haakon. At Stockholm she was met by deputations with
flowers and speeches. Dinners, receptions and concerts followed. The
American and Swedish flags waved together. The whole city knew that
something important was going to happen. In the midst of it all the
woman suffrage bill came up for discussion in both Houses of the
Parliament. The international president was escorted to the Lower
House by a body of women that crowded the galleries. After a stormy
debate the bill to enfranchise the women of Sweden received a majority
vote. In the midst of the applause Mrs. Catt was hurried to the Upper
Chamber, the stronghold of caste and conservatism. Her presence and
that of the flower of Swedish womanhood did not save the bill from the
usual defeat.

The congress opened with representatives from twenty-four affiliated
National Associations and two Committees, those of Austria and