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42 HISTORY OF THE PARLIAMENT. In his correspondence with the Japanese, the Chairman was faithfully assisted by President Alexander Tison, of the Imperial Law School of Tokyo.

The Hon. Mr. Justice Ameer Ali, of the Supreme Court, Calcutta, the liberal-minded Moslem scholar, whose article on "The Real Status of Women in Islam," published in The

Nineteenth Century, of September, 1891, excited a wide interest, and whose recent work on "The Spirit of Islam" awakened attention in England, wrote a most cordial letter in regard to the Parliament of Religions. He said :

"My own conviction is that in the states where intellectual liberty goes hand in hand with political freedom, there is greater likelihood of Islam being viewed without the mediaeval bias which still prevails in the old world." He expressed his great desire to come to Chicago in 1893, "and join in the greatest achievement of the century, which your Committee has planned, and enjoy the privilege of coming into contact with the free intel-