no Ellen Key for their journals, and gave lectiires in Fin- land, which were published later, in the interest of the Society. After a few years, she resigned from this Society, the only organisation in which she has ever worked, feeling that "So- cieties are the burying grounds of ideas . " But the position of the married woman remained for her the item of chief importance in the work of the liberation of woman. And her Lifelines makes evident that this is still the case. Yet from the suffrage camp came charges that she opposed woman's newly won right to partici- pate in all kinds of labour. When they as- serted that she admonished women to return to the old degrading condition of sitting caged in the quiet world of home, awaiting a husband, she made the following rejoinder: "Such an opinion cannot well be harboured by any thinking person in an age when the struggle for existence has reached a point where the majority of women must choose between work of any kind or starvation. Least of all can it be the opinion of one who believes in a future where no member of society can withdraw from the duty of work. Without work, woman can win an all-around, intellectual and ethical development no better than man, and woman needs work more than