_Consider: If morals are to be called into question, can it be disputed that, as compared with Woman, Man is the moral creature, and has ever been, from the time of Potiphar’s wife, up to the present?_ _Woman is the irresponsible creature who cannot reason nor follow an argument to its just conclusion--who cannot control her own emotions, nor rid herself of superstition. What question more pertinent, then, to ask than this: If mankind is to be led by the New Woman, is she, first of all, sure of the path?_ _CHARLES G. HARPER._ [Illustration] CONTENTS. I. PAGE WOMAN UP TO DATE 1 II. THE DRESS REFORMERS 28 III. WOMAN IN ART, LITERATURE, POLITICS, AND SOCIAL POLITY 45 IV. SOME OLD-TIME TERMAGANTS AND ILL-MADE MATCHES OF CELEBRATED MEN 61 V. DOMESTIC STRIFE 107 VI. WOMEN IN MEN’S EMPLOYMENTS 130 [Illustration] ILLUSTRATIONS. EMANCIPATED! _Frontispiece._ PAGE THE BLOOMER COSTUME 33 THE RATIONAL DRESS 41 ELIZABETH, COUNTESS OF SHREWSBURY 67 ANN CLIFFORD, COUNTESS OF DORSET, PEMBROKE, AND MONTGOMERY, AGED 18 71 ANN CLIFFORD, COUNTESS OF DORSET, PEMBROKE, AND MONTGOMERY, AGED 81 75 SARAH, DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH 79 LADY HESTER STANHOPE 91 THE STRUGGLE FOR THE BREECHES 109 MAN MASTERED 118 A JUDICIAL DUEL 119 [Illustration: REVOLTED WOMAN] I.--WOMAN UP TO DATE. ‘Certain Women also made us astonished.’--_Luke_, xxiv. 22.