These two characteristics of sentimentality and dogmatic confidence are very strongly marked in Hertha, while it has less of the attention to detail, less of the humorous realism, which was the ballast of Miss Bremer’s earlier novels. It has been written not simply from an artistic impulse, but with the object of advocating the liberation of women from those legal and educational restrictions which limit her opportunities of a position and a sphere of usefulness to the chance of matrimony; and we think there are few well-judging persons who will not admire the generous energy with which Miss Bremer, having long ago won fame and independence for herself, devotes the activity of her latter years to the cause of women who are less capable of mastering circumstance. Many wise and noble things she says in Hertha, but we cannot help regretting that she has not presented her views on a difficult and practical question in the ‘light of common day’, rather than in the pink haze of visions and romance. The story is very briefly this: –