A Woman's Charm

Take tho novel. The interest of the novel- the real story, nol the social scienee tract - is in love-making. And tho interest in the love-making in the novel lies in tho tiiicertainty and individualïty of the female miad; titai is to say, every oase is posjtively a new one. Xot only is it impossible to lay down a rule oi action for tliis miiul, a rule cvolved from the studv of innumerable cases n (iction and in real life, büt it is rteXI to impossible to prediol whal will bo lts action from astudyof its own tendency. Henee lile inexhaustible interes! of the eomedv or fcragedy, as it may be, and the infinite resources of the student of love-making and the adjustment of the relation of man to wmiian, which is the gjreat business of lifc. The interest in tho novel, if it is a .story of love, is inexhaustible, not only because every woman is diflerent from every other, bilt beemise evory real WOmftn has :iu intinile ari-ty of impulse and action in herself. If the lover u the novel wero surotoflndhis beloved every dayjust the same, the public wouid uot care to read aboul one interview. Fiction wonld perisli of monotony. If the female mind had a law of uniformity, and the novelist were to discover it, he would simply kill the gooso that lays the golden eggs of literature. He would dissipate all the mystery and charra of his art Hut there is no dauger. The novel in t his is a reflection of real lile. The ;i'i'at intere.-ts of the world lies in the uncertainty attending love-making, and in the variety, tho incalculable mood and action, of woman in all ciroumstances, Take. an appeal to experience. It is trae, there are woinen who are comparatively stolid, reduced to rule and uiiiforniity. Bul they are uninteresting. Who Es it that forever excites, eharmSi attraets, and makes life lively and varied and worth living!' ' It is the lluctuating f eruale, the woman who does and says the. unexpectod, who ; - to niake the case extreme -has tears one minute and smiles the next, who can pass easilyfrom gay t grave, and keep expectaiion on tip-toe for her delightful variations. Life would be ■ tolerab' stupid it' Bhe were otherwiso.