A Manual of General History: being an Outline History of the World from the Creation to the Present Time. Fully illustrated with maps. For the use of academies, high-schools, and families. By John J. Anderson, A.M. Pp. 400. From Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman & Co., New York: A Dictionary of the English Language, Explanatory, Pronouncing, Etymological, and Synonymous. Counting-House Edition. With an appendix containing various useful tables. Mainly abridged from the latest edition of the Qutarto Dictionary of Noah Webster, LL. D. By William G. Webster and William A. Wheeler. Illustrated with more than three hundred engravings on wood. Pp. 630. From Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, London: The Formation of Christendom. Part II. By T. W. Allies. 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 495. The Catholic Publication Society having made arrangements with Mr. Allies to supply his book in America, will soon have this volume for sale. Price, $6. From James Duffy, Dublin: The Life and Writings of the Rev. Arthur O'Leary. By the Rev. M. B. Buckley. 1 vol. 12mo, pp. 410. From W. W. Swayne, New York and Brooklyn: The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott. Vol. 1, paper, 25 cents. From Harper & Brothers: The Poetical Works of Charles G. Halpine. With a Biographical Sketch and Explanatory Notes. Edited by Robert B. Roosevelt. 1 vol. pp. 352. ------- {145} The Catholic World. Vol. IX., No. 50.--May, 1869. ---------- The Woman Question. [Footnote 49] [Footnote 49: 1. _The Revolution_: New York. Weekly. Vol. III. 2. _Equal Rights for Women_. A Speech by George William Curtis, in the Constitutional Convention at Albany, July 19, 1868. 3. _Ought Women to learn the Alphabet?_ By Thomas Wentworth Higginson.] The Woman Question, though not yet an all-engrossing question in our own or in any other country, is exciting so much attention, and is so vigorously agitated, that no periodical can very well refuse to consider it. As yet, though entering into politics, it has not become a party question, and we think we may discuss it without overstepping the line we have marked out for ourselves--that of studiously avoiding all party politics; not because we have not the courage to discuss them, but because we have aims and purposes which appeal to all parties alike, and which can best be effected by letting party politics alone.