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Show BOURGET AND OTHER GREAT MEN BECOME RELIGIOUS. A remarkable religious growth is noticeable no-ticeable among the highest class of thinking Frenchmen, strongly contrasting contrast-ing with the atheistic conditions so long j prevailing in France. i Paul Bourget, the distinguished novelist, nov-elist, is one of the leaders in this new movement toward religion. He has become be-come a pronounced Catholic and avows his belief. Ferdinand Brunetler and J. K. Huys-mans, Huys-mans, both noted in the literary world, have given their open adhesion to the faith. One of the highest prelates in France tells a correspondent that the wave of belief sweeping over the country is a reaction from extreme negation. It touches the masses as well as the intellectuals, in-tellectuals, but when it reaches one o these noted men the people talk about it. Brunetiere is studying theology and the lives of the Saints. Bourget is eliminating elim-inating materialism from future editions edi-tions of his works, especially from his "Essays on Contemporary Psychology." i Huysmans has become a member of the Third Order of St.- Francis. |