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ssMadame Sans-Genes a Story of the
French Revolution.

Madame SanS-Gene, an historical ro-
nance, founded on the play, of "Victo-
rien Sardou,' and translated from the
French by Louie R. Heller, is a capital
tale of one of the most interesting and
| the Revolution of 1892 and the epoch CT
the First Napoleon. 1t tells the story
| of the pretty laundress of the Rue Royal
who trusted the great BonaDarte for his
| washing when he was a poor, Respondent
| artillery officer; o she married the
brave Sergeant Lefebvre and followed
| Thirteenth Light Infantry. and how
finally this loving model couple came
10 be Monsieur LIE Due Z Madame La
Duchesse de Dantzig of the new nobility,
which Napoleon created when he SET up
his Imperial Court at the Tuilleries: II
drags Josephine down from the high
npon which she has rested so many
years land plays SKIES and sevens with
the fair name of Marie Louise of Aus
tria, Napoleon's second Empress.
Madame sans-Gene" is published by
the Home Book Company of New York.
A SIRENS Son.
Charles H. King & Co. of Chicago.
publishers. have started a series OF
ty!iVs cents nsvel AMONG To the fsta publi as 5Meh Is
q story by Miss Susie Lee Bacon. en-
titled "a SIRENS Sen Miss Bacon is
2 sout old Hrote and a st wsen "a 9n Heart dquE s6r a
Heart" which was published in a Rich
mond paper at the time and subsequent
for its text, life is a gray plain where-
OF are mirages-nothing more" and in
its opening chapters reminds one OF Miss
Schriner and Miss Harraroen. Neverthe-
less it possesses considerable merit, both
in conception and construction and is
entertaining.
Forum For March.
The Forum for March (Which, by the
way, begins Vol XXX has for its leader
titled THE Business World VS.. the Poll
ticians." senator H. C. Lodge writes on
Our laundering Foreign Policy illus
amples of our dealing notably with
Hawaii and Japan. Mr.. Andrew Carne-
gle, under the suggestive title What
Czar?" ernphatically declares that the
Wilson tariff reduces the taxes on ar
ticles used solely by the e~xtravagant
used by the w-orkingman. Prof. e.. r. A.
seligman asks, rs the Income Tax Con-
Mr.. Frederick Harrison continues his
brilliant series on the Great Victorian
Writer'S with Charlotte Bront e, Place Place
Venture, defining 2The Two Eternal
aerIsss IN !arh FicS WORK Of pr vil heFshrop ae-
ment Societies" in a number of typical
towns and villages throughout New
oOI1I LAO vi ~ ooSleAi
Discomfort begun in the February
number, this time suggesting some
remedies. Two other articles closely
allied to Mr.. Hollis are 1.-TWO Examples
of Successful Profit-Sharing,'. by Prof.
Frank w. Blackmar, and a review by
Mr.. Jacob A. Riis of the report of the
last Tenement-House Committee of New
York, entitled The Tenement the Real
Problem of Civilization"
A most Interesting article is con-
tributed by DIR. l.. Emmett Holt, on
'The Antitoxine Treatment of Diph-
theria.' Lastly. Mr.. John Gilmer Speed.
who lately spent "a Week in New York
performances, freely criticises the plays
presented and the actors taking part in
them.
Thus, the Forum, as usual, sweeps
over the whole field of contemporaneous
activity, and presents its readers with
q dozen timely and interesting essays,
by special students of the topics
treated.