e given way; he broods upon the past perpetually, and on
the loss of his child. Our poor Apollo, Boyson, will soon have lost
himself wholly, and there is no one to help.

"Do you ever see or hear anything of that woman? Do you know what
has become of her? I see you are to have a Conference on your
Divorce Laws--that opinion and indignation are rising. For Heaven's
sake, do something! I gather some appalling facts from a recent
Washington report. One in twelve of all your marriages dissolved! A
man or a woman divorced in one state, and still bound in another!
The most trivial causes for the break-up of marriage, accepted and
acted upon by corrupt courts, and reform blocked by a phalanx of
corrupt interests! Is it all true? An American correspondent of
mine--a lady--repeats to me what you once said, that it is the
women who bring the majority of the actions. She impresses upon me
also the remarkable fact that it is apparently only in a minority
of cases that a woman, when she has got rid of her husband, marries
someone else. It is not passion, therefore, that dictates many of
these actions; no serious cause or feeling, indeed, of any kind;
but rather an ever-spreading restlessness and levity, a readiness
to tamper with the very foundations of society, for a whim, a
nothing!--in the interests, of ten, of what women call their
'individuality'! No foolish talk here of being 'members one of
another'! We have outgrown all that. The facilities are always
there, and the temptation of them. 'The women--especially--who do
these things,' she writes me, 'are moral anarchists. One can appeal
to nothing; they acknowledge nothing. Transformations infinitely
far-reaching and profound are going on among us."

"'_Appeal to nothing!_' And this said of women, by a woman! It was
of _men_ that a Voice said long ago: 'Moses, because of the
hardness of your hearts, suffered you to put away your wives'--on
just such grounds apparently--trivial and cruel pretexts--as your
American courts admit. 'But _I_ say unto you!--_I say unto
you!_'...

"Well, I am a Christian priest, incapable, of course, of an
unbiassed opinion. My correspondent tries to explain the situation
a little by pointing out that your women in America claim to be the
superiors of your men, to be more in