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Four Minute Essays By Dr. Frank Crane: 101 total pages.

bodily ills that might have daunted the boldest, she still sits upon her throne, 36 FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS and though threescore and ten, with one leg amputated, she is able, at an age when any one else would be seeking rest, to sway to passion an audience that imperfectly under-stands her language, and to send out from her undaunted spirit those flames of feeling that "make brutes men and men divine." She is utterly an artist. She is utterly French. When I saw her last she seemed France incarnate, France the eternal youth among the nations, France debonnaire and light of manner, yet with a purpose strong as destiny, France that knows her own high ideal, and, in the face of enemies, adverse fate, and all hell, cries out: "Quand meme !" It is a poor soul indeed that can come away from seeing Bernhardt and not be nerved to a more splendid courage. She is a flag to all free spirits. 37 THE PRESSURE A LWAYS the pressure is on us. Like a low ceiling, it makes us forever stoop, often crawl, sometimes grovel. Like an unseen power it hypnotizes

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