Art and Handcraft in the Woman's Building
of the World's Columbian Exposition

IN THE WOMAN’S BUILDING. 255 Perepeltine Tchepelevsky Zabeline in Moscow, and many others. Mme. Sibiriakoff (from Siberia) has done much for the advanced courses of philology and natural science in St. Petersburg, which are held in a great building provided with all resources for study- ing, such as a library, laboratories, etc. In Science a conspicuous place belongs to the much-lamented Mme. Kovalevsky, who was a distinguished mathematician and writer. At the Astronomical Congress in Paris she took the first prize for her essay, “ On the Movement of a Spherical Body round an Immutable Point.” She was corresponding member of the Parisian Academy of Science, and was appointed professor of astronomy at the men’s university of Stockholm. She died two years ago, not much over thirty years of age. An honorable place belongs to Countess Ouvaroff, who, after the death of her husband, was unanimously elected president of the Archaeological Society and director of the Archaeological Museum at Moscow. Medicine has been much studied by women in the last twenty years. Over seven hundred women who have been graduated as doctors are scattered over the country, being of incalculable help, especially in the southeastern part of our country, to the Moham- medan population, where women are debarred from receiving mas- culine medical help. Mesdames Sousloff, Schepeleff, Koshevaroff, Tarnovsky, and others have acquired a reputation in the medical world. Besides this, in the smallest rural hospital every doctor is assisted by a trained professional nurse. The institution of the Red Cross is of great importance, and has never failed in any occasion of war, famine, or epidemic. One of its first-rate establishments, the Community of St. Georges, in Peters- burg, is under the high patronage of the Princess Eugenie of Oldenbourg, and is directed by the Countess E. Haydn. In Literature, in the first quarter of this century, the name of Countess Rostopchine is in that pleiad-like group of poets that group themselves around the brilliant figures of Pouslikine and Lermontoff. At that epoch of intense literary life in Moscow, the salon of the Princess Zeneicle Wolkonsky was the meeting, place of all writers and poets. She was one of the most prominent women of her time, a distinguished musician, and. very literary. She left some writings, among them an interesting correspondence with the Polish poet Mickievicz. A similar salon, renowned for its political influence and literary importance, was held in Paris by