But, really, as long as you honour asceticism as a means of appeasing the angry deities, I shall prefer to St. Dominic's cuirass or St. Hedwiga's chilblains, John Mytton's two hours' crawl on the ice in his shirt, after a flock of wild ducks.

Cleopatra and St. Hedwiga, Madame de Stael and the Princess, are merely different manifestations of the same self- willed and proud longing of woman to unsex herself, and realise, single and self-sustained, some distorted and partial notion of her own as to what the "angelic life" should be.

Cleopatra acted out the pagan ideal of an angel; St. Hedwiga, the medieval one; Madame de Stael hers, with the peculiar notions of her time as to what "spirituel" might mean; and in "The Princess" Mr. Tennyson has embodied the ideal of that nobler, wider, purer, yet equally fallacious, because equally unnatural, analogue, which we may meet too often up and down England now.

Why, belike you'll cowl him, As that stern prude, your aunt, cowled her poor spouse; Noone Hedwiga at a time's enough, My son shall die no monk.

MCCARTHY, HEDWIGA JABLONSKI.

A69229. Hedwiga Jablonski McCarthy (W); 12Jan62; R288877.

MCCARTHY, HEDWIGA JABLONSKI.

Hedwiga Jablonski McCarthy (W); 31Mar65; R358521.

MCCARTHY, HEDWIGA JABLONSKI.

A69229. Hedwiga Jablonski McCarthy (W); 12Jan62; R288877.

MCCARTHY, HEDWIGA JABLONSKI.

Hedwiga Jablonski McCarthy (W); 31Mar65; R358521.