With this ogress, panting for the screams and blood of victims whom she offers to manufacture into slaves, we close our quotations on one side. We owe it to the _Englishwoman’s Journal_ and Englishwomen generally, that we should set off against these abominable letters a few of the indignant protests which happily appear on the other side. Honour to the _Lady of Title_ who hears with shame and a shock ‘the scenes that seem to go on in some houses.’ Several _English Mothers_ express their deep indignation and shame at the correspondence on the pro-rod side. _Gentleness_ believes that such mothers and fathers ‘must have nigger blood in them,’ and ‘have learned in suffering what they teach in shame.’ _Martha_ ‘trusts that if a _Perplexed Mother_ attempts to flog her eldest daughter the tables will be turned, and she may suffer herself; then she will know whether corporal punishment is effectual or not.’ _A Christian Parent_ says very rightly: ‘As for the _English Mamma_ who has stated that she inflicts twenty strokes with a birch upon her luckless offspring, she herself, by this admission, most requires correction, and a sound scourging would be a fitting punishment for such unwomanly brutality. Patience, gentleness, and firmness are the qualities required in dealing with children and all young people; but like produces like, and in each of the above cases the violent and evil passions of the child are but inherited from the father or mother. On the parents, therefore, the chief blame should rest, and to discipline _themselves_ is my advice.’ _S. T. R._ concludes that some mothers are literally brute beasts, and does not wonder that girls arriving at womanhood escape from such dens at any cost of self-respect. There are a few female professors of the art of domestic education who advocate a little, just a little of the stick. _Trophime_ for example would always leave the clothes on if the girl be sixteen; and _Experience_ uses the rod only as a last resort. But the overwhelming number of mothers, we are glad to say, hurl contempt and anathemas at these cold-blooded _Lovers of Obedience_ who thus hate their own flesh; and the preponderance of opinion is entirely with the moral system which the lady who beats her baby with a slipper so naturally detests.