that corporations are amenable to
laws from which an individual might be exempt, the same
proposition would have met with violent refutation hardly
more than two years ago by most lawyers and many laymen.

But the public is now practically agreed, and the courts
have sustained this view, that corporations are not above
the laws of the State which made their existence possible.
An officer of a company may to-day refuse to answer
questions on the ground that he would himself be
incriminated by replying, but he cannot refuse to answer on
the ground that his company would be incriminated. In other
words, corporations are no longer considered to have the
same rights as individuals and cannot evade investigation
and prosecution by maintaining a policy of silence.

Such is the moral sense of the country and such is the law
as determined by the highest courts, and with such a
condition of public sentiment and law it is no longer
possible for public officials to plead that they cannot get
at the facts whenever there is a suspicion that any
corporation has failed to comply with the laws of the State
which created it.

LEGITIMATE SCOPE OF DRAMATIC ART.

Waxworks May Deceive for a Moment,
But They Do Not Leave the Lasting
Impression of Michelangelo's Moses.

Otis Skinner, the actor, recently made a plea for the teaching of dramatic
art in our public schools and colleges. In that way, he urged, public
taste can be improved to the point where a better quality of plays and
acting will be required to fill the theaters. He was speaking before the
Ethical Culture Society, in New York. In beginning he explained at some
length what he considered art, drawing his distinctions very carefully:

The purpose of the play is to hold a mirror up to nature,
although such things as horror, meanness, lust, or crime
must not be shown for their sake alone, merely to display
accurate dramatic photographs. They must be utilized toward
a definite end. The stage has many detractors, and among
them are the ones that say the stage does not represent real
life always. Nor should it. I will give you a definition of
art which I got from Dr. Adler. It explains what I mean:
"Art is the pattern, and not so many ells cut from the
fabric of life."

Some years ago in London I went to Mme. Tussaud's waxworks.
Curious to id