Frank, avocat. Mlle. Popelin and M. Frank, by their learning, their high position, their indefatigable labors, and their eloquence with tongue and pen, have powerfully advanced the cause of women in Belgium.

In Paris Mrs. Sewall spoke in the Hall of the Mairie St. Sulpice to a large audience, and devoted the following fourteen days to conferences with the leaders among the women of Paris, singly and in groups. Among the many women of the French capital who deserve mention for their sympathetic interest in this and other causes involving the higher interests of their sex are the following: Mlle. Maria Deraismes, présidente de la Société du Droit des Femmes; Mme. Isabelle Bogelot, directrice de l'Euvre des Libérées de St. Lazare, and ex-treasurer of the International Council of Women; Mme. Emilie de Morsier; Mme. Maria Martin, directrice du Journal des Femmes; Mme. Clémence Royer; Mme. Raymond Pognon; Mme. Nelly Lieutier, of the Société des Gens de Lettres; Mme. Térésa Vielé; Mme. Ernesta Urban, présidente de l'Union Internationale des Sciences et des Arts; Mme. Griess-Traut, of the Fédération Féministe de la Paix; Mlle. Myrtile Rengnet; Mlle. Pauline de Grandpré; Mlle. Ollier, of the Patronage des Jeunes Filles; Mme. Marya Chéliga-Loévy; Mme. Aline Valette, of the Fédération Française des Sociétés Féministes; Mme. Blanche EdwardsPilliet, docteur en médicine; Mme. René Marcil, directrice de l'Esprit de la Femme; Mlle. Marie Maugeret, directrice de l'Echo Littéraire de France; Mme. Eugénie Potonié Pierre, secrétaire du Groupe de la Solidarité des Femmes.

In addition to the interest aroused in these influential groups of German, Belgian, and French women by the visit and personal solicitations of the chairman of the Committee of Arrangements, wide publicity was given to her addresses by the press of France, Russia, Belgium, England, and Italy, and thus the scope of the great congress was made known to many thousands of European women of influence in their respective localities.

Mrs. Sewall returned to this country early in September.

Meanwhile Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery, in her office at Somerton, Pa., was planning and carrying out a voluminous and searching correspondence with prominent individuals in this and other countries, and especially with the executive officers of every national body of women at home and abroad, preparing the way for the selection and appointment of prominent women from every nation on the Advisory Councils, for the selection of persons to prepare papers for the General Congress and reports for the Report Congresses, and for the formal enrollment of all national organizations of women as members of the World's Congress of Representative Women, entitled to send delegates thereto and to hold department congresses in connection therewith. The responses to the appeals thus made by the secretary were so prompt and so generally sympathetic that it became immediately evident that a wide-spread interest was aroused, and that the success of the congress was assured. Every precaution was taken to place the movement on the broadest possible plane, and thus to allay any apprehensions of unfair treatment that might arise on the part of weaker or younger organizations.

After the simple facts regarding the inception of the plan had been stated, all organizations were placed upon exactly the same level, and all official documents issued reiterated in appropriate terms the assurance that all organizations, whether large or small in membership and influence, stood upon an equal footing in the opportunities granted to each by the committee charged with the preparations for the programme of the great congress. The spirit of fairness was so manifest in all the preliminary work of the committee that organization after organization gave in its formal adhesion to the congress, until scarcely a national woman's organization in the United States or in Europe stood aloof. The various blanks and forms used by the secretary of the committee in this arduous correspondence may be found. in the appendix to this volume, together with documents issued from time to time from the Chicago office.* The

*It has not been thought necessary to reproduce all of these in the appendix; for a partial statement see Appendix “A."

Preliminary Address, issued in September, 1892, the manuscript of which had been sent to the officers of the Woman's Branch of the Auxiliary by the chairman of the committee on June 13th as before related, is of such importance, as being the first general statement given to the world by the committee, and as outlining clearly the history of the movement, its condition in September, 1892, and the committee's plans for the final development and execution of the great proj ect in hand, that it is here given in full, instead of being relegated with other documents to the appendix. Of all the documents issued by the committee it was the most important. It was distributed in French and in English versions by tens of thousands-not at random, but to carefully selected addresses in every civilized country. It was reprinted from time to time substantially without change, either alone or as a part of more comprehensive statements, as the needs of the work required, the latest edition bearing date April 12, 1893, about four weeks before the convening of the congress.

Not Things, but Men.

President, Charles C. Bonney.

Vice-president, Thomas B. Bryan.

Treasurer, Lyman J. Gage.
Secretary, Benjamin Butterworth.

THE WORLD'S CONGRESS AUXILIARY OF THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION.

Not Matter, but Mind.

THE WOMAN'S BRANCH OF THE AUXILIARY.—Mrs. Potter Palmer, president; Mrs. Charles Henrotin, vice-president.

DEPARTMENT OF WOMAN'S PROGRESS.-Preliminary Address of the Committee on a World's Congress of Representative Women at Chicago, in 1893

This congress is proposed, not for the purpose of advocating any one cause, of promoting any one doctrine, or of advancing any special propaganda, but for the purpose of bringing together the representatives of all worthy organizations of women, whatever their nationality or their specific object.

In June of 1887 the National Woman Suffrage Association issued a call to the women of the world, stating that on March 25, 1888, an International Council of Women would be convened in Washington, D. C., to celebrate