This remarkable woman is a painter also, and exhibited a picture called “La jeune Fille et la Mort.”  One critic wrote of it:  “Sarah’s picture shows very considerable feeling for color and more thought than the vast majority of modern paintings.  The envious and evil speakers, who always want to say nasty things, pretend to trace in the picture very frequent touches of Alfred Stevens, who has been Sarah’s master in painting, as Mathieu-Meusnier was in sculpture.  However that may be, Sarah has posed her figures admirably and her coloring is excellent.  It is worthy of notice that, being as yet a comparative beginner, she has not attempted to give any expression to the features of the young girl over whose shoulder Death is peeping.”

One of the numerous ephemeral journals which the young and old jeunesse of the Latin Quarter is constantly creating has made a very clever caricature of the picture in a sort of Pompeian style.  Death is represented by the grinning figure of Coquelin aine.  The legend is “’La Jeune Fille et la Mort,’ or Coquelin aine, presenting Sarah Bernhardt the bill of costs of her fugue.”  In other words, Coquelin is Death, handing to Sarah the undertaker’s bill—­300,000 francs—­for her civil burial at the Comedie Francaise.

BETHUNE, LOUISE. This architect, whose maiden name was Blanchard, was born in Waterloo, New York, 1856.  She studied drawing and architecture, and in 1881 opened an office, being the first woman architect in the United States.  Since her marriage to Robert A. Bethune they have practised their art together.  Mrs. Bethune is the only woman holding a fellowship in the American Institute of Architects.

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BEVERIDGE, KUeHNE. Honorable mention in Paris twice.  Born in Springfield, Illinois.  Studied under William R. O’Donovan in New York, and under Rodin in Paris.

Among her works are a statue called “Rhodesia,” “Rough Rider Monument,” a statue called “Lascire,” which belongs to Dr. Jameson, busts of Cecil Rhodes, King Edward VII., Grover Cleveland, Vice-President Stevenson, Joseph Jefferson, Buffalo Bill, General Mahon, hero of Mafeking, Thomas L. Johnson, and many others.

Miss Beveridge was first noticed as an artist in this country in 1892, when her busts of ex-President Cleveland and Mr. Jefferson called favorable attention to her.

In 1899 she married Charles Coghlan, and soon discovered that he had a living wife at the time of her marriage and obtained a divorce.  Before she went to South Africa Miss Beveridge had executed several commissions for Cecil Rhodes and others living in that country.

Her mother is now the Countess von Wrede, her home being in Europe, where her daughter has spent much time.  She has married the second time, an American, Mr. Branson, who resides at Johannesburg, in the Transvaal.