A Great Little Sister

Jeanne Jugan, by Mgr. Francis Trochu, translated by Hugh Montgomery. (Burns Oates, 15s.) Reviewed by IVOR HAEL nNE wonders what G.B.S.
who did not want his monument to " take the form of a cross or any other symbol of torture " —would have thought of the life of Jeanne Jugan.
Not without significance did the tall Breton girl "la gran& Jugan" hecame Sister Marie of the Cross.
After founding the Institute of the Little Sisters ot the Poor, now so universally known and loved, she was to be supplanted, ignored and condemned to the " years of silence and neglect " which form the material of Mgr. Trochu's best chapters.
She would not have objected to " a wooden cross exactly similar to the others " which marked her grave and she would not have been surprised at the " short obituary notice" which proved that those who should have appreciated her never did.
The Little Sisters who " have never swerved a hair's breadth from the way traced out for them," may well be proud of their true foundress and grateful to her biographer as well as to his translator.
Those who can read French may find out where the " way " leads to by reading Derriere lea IClurs dun Cloitre, by Octave Daumont (Duculot, Gembloux, Belgium, 35 fr.) in which one of their chaplains, now a Trappist at Chimay, gives a delightful and Most touching account of the sisters and their proteees.
The "symbol of torture" which G.B.S. repudiated with such insistence is welt in evidence on every page of this lovely record—and yet the chronicler can take to himself the last words of one Little Sister : " I have known around me all that is most beautiful in virtue. and all that is best for the soul. I assure you that I have had a good share in life."