honor, and even the schools were represented by delegations of boys. When Pasteur entered, leaning on the arm of President Carnot, the band of the Republican Guard played a triumphal march. Lord Lister, who represented the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh at the celebration, was one of the orators of the day, and, at the conclusion of his address, embraced Pasteur in view of the audience. The Paris Faculty of Medicine paid its tribute through its dean, who said: "More fortunate than Harvey and Jenner, you have lived to see the triumph of your doctrines, and what a triumph!" Three years after the payment of this magnificent tribute Pasteur was attacked by paralysis. On September 28, 1895, following twenty-four hours of semiconsciousness in which he had held with one hand, a crucifix and with the other had grasped the hand of his wife, he passed away. His body was laid in a quiet, low-vaulted chapel in the Pasteur Institute, which has well been described as "a holy place of science." The figures of four angels, Faith, Hope, Love and Science, guard his sleep, and wreaths of grape-vines, mulberry leaves, and representations of cattle, sheep and poultry have been used with symbolic decorative effect. The work of Pasteur is still going on. His last researches were made in connection with diphtheria. He was convinced that diphtheria, typhoid, cholera and yellow fever could all be conquered, and his faith has been vindicated in ways that his own discoveries made possible. The latest disease reported conquered is the socalled "sleeping sickness," which has made vast areas of Africa almost uninhabitable for man and beast. It has been known for half a century that this sickness was carried by the tsetse fly, but only in our own day has the actual microbe or parasite that causes the disease been definitely discovered. In the Bayer Chemical Works, near Cologne, Germany, prolonged experiments, initiated by Prof. K. K. Kleine, a disciple of the German bacteriologist, Robert Koch, have resulted in the production of a drug which is said to be able, when injected under the skin or into the veins, to overcome this devastating malady. If Pasteur were still alive, he would bless this application of his method, and would look forward to a time when other remaining diseases, of which we have not yet discovered the secrets, will yield to the patient countermining of the laboratory. AUTHORITIES René Vallery-Radot's Life of Pasteur, with introduction by Sir William Osler; Emile Duclaux's Pasteur: The History of a Mind; L. Descour's Pasteur and His Work; S. J. Holmes' Louis Pasteur; Arthur I. Kendall's Civilization and the Microbe. SARAH BERNHARDT, DRAMATIC ART BY CHARLES HENRY MELTZER ARAH BERNHARDT saw the light, for the first SA time on earth, in Paris, in the apartment of a certain Mme. Guérard, who was later on, for many years, her housekeeper. Her birthplace was an unpretentious house at No. 265 in the old Rue St. Honoré. It stood within a stone's throw of the Halles, the central market-place of Paris, and close to the historic Tour St. Jacques. For reasons of her own, Mme. Sarah (as her friends all called her) was rather reticent about her parents. Her father was quite well-to-do; her mother, a Dutch Jewess, bore him fourteen children. Sarah was the eleventh of these children-the only one who was to conquer fame. According to the record of the Conservatoire, the date on which the predestined star of tragedy was born was October 22, 1844. The same record also holds that Sarah's birthplace was not-as she herself |