The Jews have been accused of following in the wake of other Oriental nations, and of placing woman in a comparatively low scale; we have often heard it remarked that it was reserved for Christianity to raise her to the same moral rank as man—for the chivalry of the middle ages to make her an object of tender devotion—and for the civilization of modern times to remove her from that flowery pedestal to a higher, though perhaps less flattering sphere, where she is no longer an idol to be worshipped by man, but his fellow-worshipper, his fellow-labourer, and in all things his faithful helpmate. Now we are not going to dispute that the world has improved, or to assert that the social position of woman has remained uninfluenced by the progress of civilization, but we do not think that woman could have been looked upon as an inferior being by those to whom we owe the description of the virtuous woman, in the last chapter of Proverbs. We regard that beautiful picture as a refutation of the assertion that the Jews made but small account of female excellence; and we think that the women of the present day could follow no better model than that which was offered to the women of Israel more than two thousand years ago.