Their feeling of duty in this respect amounts to a sense of religious consecration.

It is a cult in which they educate their daughters from childhood." After going to my room that night, I sat up late to read a romance of Berrian, handed me by Dr.Leete, the plot of which turned on a situation suggested by his last words, concerning the modern view of parental responsibility.

A similar situation would almost certainly have been treated by a nineteenth century romancist so as to excite the morbid sympathy of the reader with the sentimental selfishness of the lovers, and his resentment toward the unwritten law which they outraged.

I need not describe--for who has not read "Ruth Elton" ?--how different is the course which Berrian takes, and with what tremendous effect he enforces the principle which he states: "Over the unborn our power is that of God, and our responsibility like His toward us.

As we acquit ourselves toward them, so let Him deal with us." [1] I may say that Dr.Leete's warning has been fully justified by my experience.