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The Transitional Woman.

What is this curious product of to-day, the American girl or woman? Does the heroine of any American novel fitly stand as a type of what she is? and, furthermore, is it possible for any novel within the next fifty years truly to depict her as a finality, when she is still emerging from new conditions in a comparatively old civilization, when she does not yet understand herself; and when her actions are often the awkward results of motives, complex in their character, unconsciously to herself? Pessimists speak of woman's foibles as constitutional, and displayed alike in all ages and countries. Optimists,

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