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His training as a naturalist gives an angle to every observation that he makes, and Paris, as well worn by writers as by war, is in this article as freshly handled as if it were now described for the first time. To all who love the delicate art of writing, Mr. Beebe's papers are full of delight. Perhaps we may not be overstepping the bounds of proper compliment if we quote from a letter which comes from Africa, where a reader of the Atlantic has spent many long years: Mr. Beebe is the wise man that I admire. I have an excessive admiration for Mr. Beebe, who is far wiser than you can possibly know. Well, how could you? No one in the world knows as well as I do the fortune of golden words distributed at intervals by Mr. Beebe. Miss Margaret P. Montague, whose home is in West Virginia, is a writer of novels, stories, and essays, and a friend of all Atlantic readers. Reverend Willard L. Sperry, a former Rhodes Scholar, is minister of the Second Congregational Church of Boston. Christina Krysto, the daughter of Russian parents, is a native of the Caucasus and a graduate of the University of California, who has written for the Atlanthe more than one novel and interesting story. Olive Tilford Dargan is an American poet, whose quality has long since been recognized. Theodore Roosevelt wrote this vigorous and interesting commentary while he was recovering from his recent serious illness in New York. To readers who do not know the ostrich from the anaconda this article, written under conditions of serious physical disability and pain, at a time when most men's interests were paralyzed by portentous events in Europe, will be a new and remarkable example of the intellectual vitality of the writer. Maurice Barrès is a distinguished author and statesman of France; Member of the Academy since 1906, Deputy for Paris in the Corps Législatif, and, as has been said by a distinguished professor at the Sorbonne, now in the French service, of all the French writers of the "grand style unquestionably the one most effectively engaged, by virtue of his regular contributions to the Echo de Paris, in commemorating the progress of the war day by day.' Born in the Vosges district of Lorraine, he passed his most susceptible years in the Lycée at Nancy, within a short distance of the frontier imposed on France by the treaty of Frankfort (1871). Going to Paris in 1883, his first contribution to serious literature, after a few years in journalism, was made in 1888, with the first volume of his Trilogie du Moi.' His many later books, of which perhaps the most famous are Le Jardin de Bérénice, the third volume of the above trilogy,' and Les Déracinés, the first of another trilogy, 'Le Roman de l'Energie Nationale,' are all inspired by a serious purpose to imbue his countrymen with feelings of affection and respect for their own localities; to cling to local traditions, and to give to France the genius of individuality and variety. In 1889, M. Barrès was sent to the Corps Législatif, his colleague in the deputation from Nancy being the same Colonel Driant whose heroic death is described in one of the letters which we print. In July, 1914, on the very eve of the war, he was chosen to succeed the late Paul Deroulède, founder of the League of Patriots, as president of that society. 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