At the recent examination for the degree of master of arts in the University of London there were two hundred and thirty-seven candidates altogether, and of these twenty-two were women. Of the women sixteen were successful, or about seventy-three per cent; while forty-two per cent of the men passed. Only twenty-seven per cent of the men were placed in the first division, but sixty-eight per cent of the women reached that rank. That is to say, while every woman graduating but one was in the first division, only one man in three was so placed. The age of the women was slightly less than that of the men. Such facts as these will impress the most prejudiced person of woman's capacity for work; but, unhappily, zealots will use them as the basis of utterly untenable conclusions. - [Ex.