. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . e impossible. As may be seen from these statements, the name of Strauss is justly in-cluded among the highly influential authors of the century. The doctrines of hiswork were repeated in more fluent and persuasive form in Renans famous Lifeof Jesus, thirty years later, and they have had a widespread and very vigorousinfluence upon the thought of the century. In 1S41 he published another importantwork, the Christliebe Glaubenslehre, a review of Christian dogma based onsimilar destructive criticism. Afte
. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . e impossible. As may be seen from these statements, the name of Strauss is justly in-cluded among the highly influential authors of the century. The doctrines of hiswork were repeated in more fluent and persuasive form in Renans famous Lifeof Jesus, thirty years later, and they have had a widespread and very vigorousinfluence upon the thought of the century. In 1S41 he published another importantwork, the Christliebe Glaubenslehre, a review of Christian dogma based onsimilar destructive criticism. After a life devoted to literature he returned totheology In 1872, with Der alte und der neue Glaube, which produced a sensationeven greater than that caused by his first work. In this he held that Christianityhas ceased to exist as a system of religious faith, and that a new religion must bebuilt up out of art and science. He died two years later, after doing more thanany other man to disturb the religious faith of his century. The wave of criticalinquiry he raised has yet far from VICTOR HUGO, AND LES MISERABLES. T is somewhat slnsfular that the class of literature which has far morereaders than any other class seems to be considered as not veryinfluential upon human thought. Our list yields only one novelistof the English-speaking race, and the persistent influence of Scottwas more upon later writers than upon the world at large. Wehave now to present a French novelist, whose great work may beheld to have had a wider effect upon general thought. Professor Bryce hesitatesbetween Victor Hugo and Lyof Tolstoi, both men of leading influence, but says: If any one book is to be selected as specially conspicuous for the Influence it has hadon mens thoughts and emotions, Hugos Les Miserables would seem to havethe strongest claim; and Hale says of the same author: I think he made a goodmany dead men take up their bed and walk. For many years and In many ways Victor Hugo was a p
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