Jean Mace, a French author, born in Paris, April 22, 1815. He studied and taught at the Stanislas college, and subsequently was professor in other institutions. He was for some time in the army, until a substitute was purchased for him by Prof. Burette, his former teacher of history, whose secretary he was till his death in 1847. An ardent republican, he was connected with the press after the revolution of 1848, and was expelled from Paris after the covp d'etat of Dec. 2,1851. He was professor till 1861 in a female seminary in Alsace, where he prepared his Histoire d'une bouchee de pain (Paris, 1861), which was followed in 1866 by a sequel entitled Les serviteurs de l'estomac. These works have been translated into English, and published under the titles, " History of a Mouthful of Bread," and "The Servants of the Stomach." He also wrote fairy stories, which have been translated by Mary L. Booth, under the title, "Mace's Fairy Book" (New York, 1866). . In 1864, in conjunction with Stahl, he founded Le Magasin d'Education et de Recreation; and he describes in his Morale en action (1865) the working of the society which he had established for communal libraries in the department of Haut-Rhin. In 1866 he founded in Paris a society called " The League of Instruction," of which he continues to be the president (1874). Among his more recent writings are L'CEil (1869); Lettre d'un paysan d' Alsace a un senateur (1870); and La separation de l'eglise et de l'ecole, and La demi-instruction (1872).