. Review of reviews and world's work. ance, because of the uncom-promising logic of the French people, who aretemperamentally incapable of comprehendingand sympathizing with attempts to put newwine into old bottles. While this is the role inwhich M. Wagner takes himself most is by no means the role in which he appearsat his best. It is not to him, but to morethoroughgoing and logical thinkers in thecamps of out-and-out religion and out-and-outirreligion that the serious-minded youth ofFrance are likely to turn for intellectual guid-ance in their moments of spiritual stress. In the
. Review of reviews and world's work. ance, because of the uncom-promising logic of the French people, who aretemperamentally incapable of comprehendingand sympathizing with attempts to put newwine into old bottles. While this is the role inwhich M. Wagner takes himself most is by no means the role in which he appearsat his best. It is not to him, but to morethoroughgoing and logical thinkers in thecamps of out-and-out religion and out-and-outirreligion that the serious-minded youth ofFrance are likely to turn for intellectual guid-ance in their moments of spiritual stress. In the role of an advocate of simple living,M. Wagner counts for very much less in staid,economical France than in nervous, extravagantAmerica, probably because the need of this mes-sage there is less crying. His •• Vie Simple isrelatively little read in his own country, and has••eared, so far as I know, no appreciable currentof any sort. It is in his third rdle, as an apostle of aggres-sive optimism, that he has his strongest hold. CHARLES WAGNER. (Who lectures in this country during September andOctober.) upon his own people. His Jeunesse (Youth)and Vaillance (Courage), which inculcate theduty and proclaim the beauty of cheerful cour-age in the face of individual and national re-verses, are far and away the most popular of histen volumes. M. Wagner is a splendid dissemi-nator of wholesome animal spirits. On thispoint his influence is considerable, and had heonly a little more distinction of style, it wouldbe enormous. paul adams gospel of action. Paul Adam is primarily a literary artist,—i:ifact, one of the foremost literary artists of histime. At forty-two, his literary baggage con-sists of thirty novels, of several volumes of his-tory, literary, aesthetic, social, and philosophicalstudies, dramas and short stories, and of innu- 330 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REVIEWS. merable magazine and review articles and chro-niques for the daily press. This fecundity, fur-thermo
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