A fair correspondent—­has the phrase an old-time sound?—­thinks we should pay more attention to men.  In a revolutionary time, when great questions are in issue, minor matters, which may nevertheless be very important, are apt to escape the consideration they deserve.  We share our correspondent’s interest in men, but must plead the pressure of circumstances.  When there are so many Woman’s Journals devoted to the wants and aspirations of women alone, it is perhaps time to think of having a Man’s journal, which should try to keep his head above-water in the struggle for social supremacy.  When almost every number of the leading periodicals has a paper about Woman—­written probably by a woman —­Woman Today, Woman Yesterday, Woman Tomorrow; when the inquiry is daily made in the press as to what is expected of woman, and the new requirements laid upon her by reason of her opportunities, her entrance into various occupations, her education—­the impartial observer is likely to be confused, if he is not swept away by the rising tide of femininity in modern life.

But this very superiority of interest in the future of women is a warning to man to look about him, and see where in this tide he is going to land, if he will float or go ashore, and what will be his character and his position in the new social order.  It will not do for him to sit on the stump of one of his prerogatives that woman has felled, and say with Brahma, “They reckon ill who leave me out,” for in the day of the Subjection of Man it may be little consolation that he is left in.

It must be confessed that man has had a long inning.  Perhaps it is true that he owed this to his physical strength, and that he will only keep it hereafter by intellectual superiority, by the dominance of mind.  And how in this generation is he equipping himself for the future?  He is the money-making animal.  That is beyond dispute.  Never before were there such business men as this generation can show—­Napoleons of finance, Alexanders of adventure, Shakespeares of speculation, Porsons of accumulation.  He is great in his field, but is he leaving the intellectual province to woman?  Does he read as much as she does?  Is he becoming anything but a newspaper-made person?  Is his mind getting to be like the newspaper?  Speaking generally of the mass of business men—­and the mass are business men in this country—­have they any habit of reading books?  They have clubs, to be sure, but of what sort?  With the exception of a conversation club here and there, and a literary club, more or less perfunctory, are they not mostly social clubs for comfort and idle lounging, many of them known, as other workmen are, by their “chips”?  What sort of a book would a member make out of “Chips from my Workshop”?  Do the young men, to any extent, join in Browning clubs and Shakespeare clubs and Dante clubs?  Do they meet for the study of history, of authors, of literary periods, for reading, and discussing what they read?  Do they in concert