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176 same being fully of the high standard of its predecessor, mirroring the brilliant genius of the author on every page. Its tendency concerns mainly the emancipation of women as to the political and social aspect of the question, while the first part almost exclusively treats upon the sexual relations.

It is hardly necessary to state for the information of the reader that the "Convention of German women in Frauenstadt" is a fiction, but it may not be amiss to remark that the report of the same appeared for the first time in 1869 in the form of an editorial correspondence in "Der Pionier," a weekly paper edited and published by Heinzen in Boston for more than a quarter of a century until 1870, when a serious illness of Heinzen, caused by an apoplectic stroke, imperiously demanded the cessation of his literary work, and in consequence thereof the discontinuance of the publication ‘of "Der Pionier." This fearless weekly during its existence gladdened the hearts and fired the courage of its readers by the presentation in its columns of the most thorough-going investigations and elucidations in every department of useful knowledge — literary, political, economical and ethical treatises being the topics of every issue. Its appearance was an