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Caledonia; your name has often been before us in the jury of honor. I knew as much of New Caledonia as Stanley at first of Livingstone, but recalled some English Higginson who had been in the papers as connected with copper mines there and it seems he is called Colonel too. What a chaos of Colonels! I said if it was necessary to patriotism that I should take the credit, I'd do my best. Of his further doings in the French capital, he wrote:— This was the day of the Congres Internationel de Droit des Femmes. . . . Mrs. Howe read a paper in French ... the language seemed to give a clearness and precision to her ideas and kept her from the clouds and she read with much dignity and sweetness. At the Theatre Francais he for the first time saw acting! ... Sarah Bernhardt seemed the legitimate successor of Rachel and Ristori—a blonde Rachel, tall and slender and stately and fearfully ill like her—but oh! such power, such expression by a glance, a whisper, a motion of the hand <