Review of reviews and world's work . avor of a bond issue of $8,775,000 forcity improvements. The The movement for woman suf-Actiue Suffrageirage has been much accelerated Movement. • i • i • in this country during recentweeks, as a result, among other things, of thegreat energy and interest of women in NewYork. Important mass-meetings have beenheld in Carnegie Hall, both for organizationand for general discussion. The presence inthis country of Mrs. Pankhurst, Mrs. Snow-den, and some other of the leaders of thesuffragist movement in England, has con-tributed its full share to the arousing ofA
Review of reviews and world's work . avor of a bond issue of $8,775,000 forcity improvements. The The movement for woman suf-Actiue Suffrageirage has been much accelerated Movement. • i • i • in this country during recentweeks, as a result, among other things, of thegreat energy and interest of women in NewYork. Important mass-meetings have beenheld in Carnegie Hall, both for organizationand for general discussion. The presence inthis country of Mrs. Pankhurst, Mrs. Snow-den, and some other of the leaders of thesuffragist movement in England, has con-tributed its full share to the arousing ofAmerican sentiment. English political ma-chinery is much simpler and more direct thanours, and voting in English elections is amore rational and intelligible process. If thegeneral agitation of the suffrage question canhelp us to secure better nominating systems,and to reduce the number of elective offices,it will be most welcome. Mrs. Blatch. in aCarnegie Hall meeting last month, gave a I 654 THE AMERfCAM KE^ItlV OF REI^ Pnolograpa by Faul Ihoicpsan Y. N. MRS. PHILIP SNOWDEN. (Prominent English suffragette.) delightful account of her experience as awatcher at the polls in the recent municipalelection, and her picture of our careless andunintelligent methods has never been sur-passed for acumen and fine satire. Nextmonth we hope to present some notes uponthe real condition and progress of the wom-an suffrage movement in the United subject has reached the stage for sincereand considerate study. Of course, no sub-ject can be studied with a calm mind in thepresence of a militant propaganda such asthe so-called suffragettes are conducting inEngland. Those methods w^ould hardly pro-mote that particular cause, or any other,under conditions that exist in the UnitedStates. Whatever one may think of suffra-gette methods, however, such leaders as and Mrs. Snowden are too ableand too deeply convinced to be most women who take to platfo
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