gence that draws you at first glance and keeps hold of you in the glances that follow... He speaks unhurriedly, but with con-fidence and assurance... as though his words were grains from his heart which he fears to squander or lose, for he is careful of every word — indeed of every letter...

And the young physician set

about telling me of the profession he loves!...

He told me of those years he spent bent over his books, or sunk in the operating room among the dead, the sick, and the wounded...

He told me of the result he reached and the victory he carried off... He is among the few who have managed to knock at

this door and succeed in passing through it — not only here, but in America itself... for the number of cosmetic surgeons there does not exceed three hundred and fifty...

Then he told me of the many operations he has performed for a company of wretched, innocent souls whose bodies were disfig-ured for no sin of their own... so