THE MATRIARCH G. B. Stern Dutton ($2.50).
Matriarchy, recurring through several generations of a family, is never without the suggestion that original female promiscuity has brought fatherhood into disrepute, as an agency too casual to be revered and too dubious to be trusted. That suggestion is implicit in the affairs of the Jewish family Rakowitz. Babette, afterwards the first Mrs. Rakowitz, used to march each evening, attended by two white trouser-legs, to the camp of the Emperor Napoleon at Pressburg. She bred and ruled many Rakowitzes, passed her domineering spirit down...
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