MARIA MALLIANT, COUNTESS TRAVERSARI.

Tin: cause of woman has sustained an irreparable loss in the person of Maria Malliani, Countess Traversari, who has lately died at Bergamo, Italy. This young woman, beautiful, adored, counted as nothing the luxury and elegance ill which she lived, while she saw suffering about her ; and, above all, the uuQerius of women every v.'here enslaved by the laws, bound by prejudice, usage and superstition. Maria Malliani contended for the rights of woman, and for tlie abolition of the privileges of sex. She wished that the freedom of the human being should be acknowledged in the person of woman and that she should not, ill line, be put outside of the law. She did more than plead. She consecrated the efforts of her life to bring it forward. Ti "ing rich, she devote 1 to it a part of her large fortune. Mel' active efforts, her struggles against indifference and injustice, have broken her down before her time. Her health lias long been failing. Little by little the strong son! wore out the body. She had died just when tlie women of the International Woman's Rights Congress were awaiting her among tlieni, at the time wheu she was'to brim: to the Congress her enthusiastic co-operation, her eloquent words and her in vincihie i.opc. Her absence has created new duties for us. Lot us go steadily forward—firm and d v.-o'ed. as was our dear, dear friend ; and, by the let us repeat with nor: "Woman must be educated; she must be a citizen.' —L'Avtitir ties