Notes

The Fifth Chamber of the Seine Tribunal awarded a soldier $500 for a "characteristic mistake of the medical profession" in his suit against one Dr. Philippe. The "characteristic mistake" was leaving a sponge in the inside of the soldier, thereby necessitating a second operation.

Florian Parmentier, poet, was awarded a traveling prize for the best book of poems for the year. The reactionary press bitterly assailed the poet who is anti-militaristic, particular exception being taken, apparently, to a passage:

"Courage does not mean facing bayonets, but accomplishing one's social duty."

Mme. Marie Laparcerie lost her suit for plagiarism against Victor Margueritte (TIME, Aug. 6), the jury declaring that La Garqonne was original and that the former's Rosine's Lovers had not been copied or used in any way.