WOMEN'S BOOKS.

Evening Post, Volume LXIII, Issue 153, 28 June 1902, Page 1 (Supplement)

WOMEN'S BOOKS.

fr " Women thin U of no other suV>jecfc than what thoy call the sex froblcui," remarks Mr. Qui ller-Couch to a Da ily Mail interviewer. "So far they axe within their righ.te. Passion is everything to a Avoniau ; it isn't to a man* Thoy regard marriage as an insticutioa forced upon them in their slavery by the brute force of man, nnd so theygird at it in their books ; an d to make it appear as cruel and wicked as possible 'they, indulge the— what sLvall we call it?— < Avell, the curiosity of repulsion. Tb.ey, are like Plato's man beyond tho city; walls, who shut his eye 8 naturally whoa he came to a field of cc *pses, and then^ feeling that he muse con quer this weak* ness, Avent back and lo 9ked upon the* 1 hideous sight by forcing open bis eyelids with courageous fing* •*"»• They regard man as a horrid nui 'wince; ns am impediment in their path. One of them at least— poor, dear lady !- -wishes t^ot babies descended liko mai urn out of Heaven. But man is a stone w 'all again eft whiob they must butt in vain. People who think that one sex can dc> without* the other Avant a shampoo." I'hat lady t novelists should out-Zola Zola is buU natural, according to Mr. Quillor- -Couch., "They have always done that, sort o^ thing." To sum up, " The lady novelwU is a dear creature, but tiresome."