THE LADIES MILITANT.—­It is out at last.  If the women as a body have not succeeded in getting up a revolution, Susan B. Anthony, as their representative, has.  Her Revolution was issued last Thursday as a sort of New Year’s gift to what she considered a yearning public, and it is said to be “charged to the muzzle with literary nitre-glycerine.”  If Mrs. Stanton would attend a little more to her domestic duties and a little less to those of the great public, perhaps she would exalt her sex quite as much as she does by Quixotically fighting windmills in their gratuitous behalf, and she might possibly set a notable example of domestic felicity.  No married woman can convert herself into a feminine Knight of the Rueful Visage and ride about the country attempting to redress imaginary wrongs without leaving her own household in a neglected condition that must be an eloquent witness against her.  As for the spinsters, we have always said that every woman has a natural and inalienable right to a good husband and a pretty baby.  When, by proper “agitation,” she has secured this right, she best honors herself and her sex by leaving public affairs behind her, and endeavoring to show how happy she can make the little world of which she has just become the brilliant center.

The New York Independent, the great organ of the Congregationalists, had this breezy editorial: 

The Revolution is the martial name of a bristling and defiant new weekly journal, the first number of which has just been laid on our table.  When we mention that it is edited by Mr. Parker Pillsbury and Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, all the world will immediately know what to expect from it.  Those two writers can never be accused of having nothing to say, or of backwardness in saying it.  Each has separately long maintained a striking individuality of tongue and pen.  Working together, they will produce a canvas of the Rembrandt school—­Mrs. Stanton painting the high lights and Mr. Pillsbury the deep darks.  In fact, the new journal’s real editors are Hope and Despair.  Beaumont and Fletcher were intellectually something alike; but Mrs. Stanton and Mr. Pillsbury are totally different.  The lady is a gay Greek, come forth from Athens; the gentleman is a sombre Hebrew, bound back to Jerusalem.  We know of no two more striking, original, and piquant writers.  What keen criticisms, what knife-blade repartees, what lacerating sarcasms we shall expect from the one!  What solemn, reverberating, sanguinary damnations we shall hear from the other!

Conspicuous among the new journal’s contributors is that great traveller, hotel-builder, epigrammatist and kite-flyer, Mr. George Francis Train.  So The Revolution, from the start, will arouse, thrill, edify, amuse, vex and nonplus its friends.  But it will compel attention; it will conquer a hearing.  Its business management is in the good hands of Miss Susan B. Anthony, who has long been known as one of the most indefatigable,