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Rh have this manual of Miss Greene's for a companion. The gifted author tells us, while all the laws discussed in this volume are of equal importance to men, it is entitled 'The Woman's Manual of Law' because it is a selection of laws that women especially need to know."

Since 1898 Miss Greene has been a vice-president of the Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society. This organization includes the New England and Middle States, also Delaware and the District of Columbia. It is incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts, and has its office in Tremont Temple, Boston. It is auxiliary to the American Baptist Missionary Union, and maintains over four hundred schools, with about sixteen thousand pupils in Burma, South India, China, Japan, and Africa. It supports seventy-three lady missionaries, and carries on medical work, as well as evangelistic and educational. In January, 1902, she was, by formal vote of the Board of Directors, made its authorized legal adviser. Since 1895 she has been president of the Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of Rhode Island, a State branch of the general society.

In 1892, at the request of the Board of Managers of the Columbian Exposition, she compiled a pamphlet entitled "Legal Status of Women under the Laws of Rhode Island, 1892." It was originally published in the Rhode Island Woman's Directory for the Columbian Year, edited by Charlotte Field Dailey, and published in Providence in 1893 by the Rhode Island Woman's World's Fair Advisory Board, of which Miss Greene was a member. In 1900, the laws having been very much altered and amended, she revised the pamphlet, and it was published by the Rhode Island State Federation of Women's Clubs under the title, "Legal Status of Women in Rhode Island, 1900," with a preface concerning the recent sweeping legislation for the benefit of Rhode Island wives.

Miss Greene was the first woman contributor to the American Law Review, Some of the published articles are: "Privileged Communications in Suits between Husband and Wife," American Law Review, September-October, 1890; "The Evolution of the American Fee Simple," American Law Review, March-April, 1897; "Results of the Woman Suffrage Movement," Forum, June, 1894; and a series of articles on law for women in the Chautauquan, November, 1891-August, 1892.

Her translation entitled "The Woman Lawyer," from the French of Dr. Louis Frank, the famous Belgian champion of woman's rights ("La Femme-Avocat," par L. Frank, Bmxelles, 1888), appeared serially in the Chicago Law Times for the year 1889. Dr. Frank dedicated to Miss Greene his Catêchisme de la Femme in J895. This little work was translated into nearly every language of Continental Europe, with its dedication.

Miss Greene's address at the World's Congress of Jurisprudence upon "Married Woman's Property Acts in the United States, and Needed Reforms therein," was published in the Chicago Legal News of August 12, 1893. Her address delivered in the Woman's Building of the Columbian Exposition, entitled "Legal Condition of Women in 1492 and 1892," is printed in full in the official volumes of the Congresses in the Woman's Building. In the New England Magazine for 1898 is her illustrated article on General Nathanael Greene, a brief biography tracing the development of General Greene's character and attempting to show what it was that made him a great military genius.

The Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society has published two small pamphlets from her pen—"The Primer of Missions" in 1896 and "Women's Missionary Wills and Bonds" in 1902. Miss Greene says, "If I get interested in any subject, legal, patriotic, or missionary, I have to deliver addresses and publish articles about it." She is a magnetic speaker, and has the power to hold her audiences and to inspire them with enthusiasm.

At the Fortieth Anniversary of the first Woman's Rights Convention she represented women in the legal profession. The meeting, presided over by Lucy Stone, was held in Tremont Temple, January 27, 1891, and Miss Greene, though her voice is naturally low, as she spoke on "Women in the Law," made three thousand people hear with ease.

As a presiding officer she is unusually popu-