MARGARET said, No: this was remorse; but there was an admirable instance of the former given by Goethe, of a man who wove rope from the sedges which grew upon the banks of Lethe, for an ass who continually devoured it. The moral seemed to be that the ass could just as well have eaten them unwoven. Goethe goes on to say that the Greeks only thought that the poor man had a prodigal wife, but that the moderns would look deeper and see more in the fable. We all weave sedges for asses to eat, thought I. MARGARET seemed to think that every heart might have an experience which would correspond to Tartarus. Every hero must visit it at least once. I suggested Pluto, Persephone, the Fates, the Gorgons, the Furies, and Cerberus. Pluto was equal to Neptune and Jupiter. MARGARET continued: Hades was not given to Pluto to mark defective character, but simply as his kingdom. His wants were all supplied. The bride Olympus refused him he was permitted to steal from earth while she gathered flowers. Persephone, seed of all things, must dwell in the dark; but another legend tells us that if she had been willing to leave her veil, she might have stolen away. There was a meaning in her being forbidden to eat in the infernal regions. Fate said, “Do not touch what you don’t want.” Psyche was forbidden to partake of the regal banquet Persephone spread. Seeking for Immortality, this soul, like every other, must be content to eat bitter bread. There was then a talk about Cerberus and the Gorgons. MR. CLARKE said that in the New Testament the dog seemed to stand for popular prejudice. The swine stood for what _could_ not, the dog for what _would_ not, be convinced. Yes, MARGARET said, the wolf is a misanthropic dog. He has little dignity. IDA RUSSELL said Cerberus stood for the temperaments. Well, MARGARET said, that being so, she liked the Greeks for making no allowance for the lymphatic. To what, she continued, do we offer the first sop, as we pass through life? As for the Gorgons, every one, she thought, would find his own interpretation of them. To her there was no Gorgon but _apathy_; there is nothing in creation that will so soon turn a live man into stone. These Gorgons were three women, who used one eye and one tooth between them,—except Medusa, who was beautiful and perfect. Her hair had provoked the envy of Minerva, and was changed into serpents. Margaret had a copy of a gem, which Marion Dwight had made for her, which showed this. E. P. P. asked if Perseus did not endeavor to show Medusa her own head. MARGARET said that might well rouse her! CHARLES WHEELER explained. Perseus only used a mirror given him by Minerva to avoid looking at the Gorgon. CAROLINE STURGIS said that the old woman who keeps house for Helen in the second part of “Faust” was a Gorgon to her. This dragged a critical analysis of the “Faust” forward.