or 'she is the person who manages the things of the house' — and the word 'things' was placed between parentheses. They would likewise assert that woman was among man's chattels... though all this was in the days when the Japanese people as a whole were among the chattels of the ruling classes."

And the writer arrives at the conclusion that the Japanese woman today is likewise no longer she who always looked upon the justification of her existence as lying in the measure of her ability to satisfy man's whims and instincts; rather she is today edu-cated, cultivated, conscious of her personality, and will not consent to exchange any relation with man

unless she exchanges with him the feeling of love and desire.

Thus the Japanese woman, who today takes part in the political life of her country, voting and being elected, is achieving wide strides in the field of human advancement and progress, drawing nearer and nearer to her sisters in the civilized countries, so that she will not be long in reach-ing a level worthy of the women of the most advanced lands.

This is what is indicated by the book A History of Japanese Women, written by Kiyoshi Inoue on the subject of the Japanese woman's progress in the present stage of her history and the wide strides she has achieved in this respect — while Lebanon still

hesitates and bides its time, taking no step in this direction.

Among what I came upon during my researches in the for-eign papers and magazines was an article written about the Marquise Émilie du Châtelet, in the course of discussing the error of the theory which holds that woman loses much of her femininity if she practices pursuits apt to take pos-session of her thinking and take her out of the circle of family life. It is well known that the Marquise Émilie du Châtelet devoted herself greatly to intellectual questions, to practical studies, and to writing on mathematics and physics, and shared with France's great men their absorption in political affairs; and she loved Voltaire with a