The daily sentinel., 1906-09-04
THE SOUL OF PARIS"

most intensely interesting and beau
tifully written articles that has ap-
peared in any American magazine in
a long time and it comes from the
pen of Werner r. Reed so well known
to Colorado and Grand junction peo-
pie and appears in the Atlantic
monthly, for the month of Septem-
ber.
A more facile and brilliant pen
splendid conception by Mr.. Reed. It's
depths are too profound. its refer
ences too world wide and splendidly
descriptive. of ancient and yet mod
ern cities brought into comparison,
to what in his judgbent is the great
est of all cities-Paris, for US to at
tempt to do it even scant Justice.
That the cities have souls, an or
iginal belief with Belloc, is almost
accepted as true by Mr.. Reed, in his
discussion of the Soul of Paris" He
takes you fguratively to a promin-
ence overlooking the Eternal city
and treats you to a magnificent word
painting of the things that are char
acteristic not alone of Paris, but
which find duplication in part in all
great cities.
Let us present to you Mr.. Reeds
picture of Paris, he seemingly loves
so well. you'll unquestionably agree
with us that few such pictures have
been drawn of that wonderful city:
!. OF the ancient citeis,-for i.
= il has an age of almost twenty i.
i. centuries,-Paris seems to be Il
IA phoenix, the one city that has i.
= the power of rising young and j.
= virile from its own dead ashes !.
= IL is not sunken in sleep, as X
= Florence; il is not dying, as i.
= playing with masks in which it. !.
= self does not believe, as Rome; =
= IL is not suffering from arrest i.
= ed spiritual and mental de- !.
= vclopment, as London; 10 has 4.
!. not resigned itself to the stu .f-
= II has kept pace with the y.
= march of the centuries, IL has y
!. itself often led the march, and i.
.i-it stands today, despite its hoary !.
!. age and its ancient Traditions !.
4. as the most modern city in the i.
= modern world, as the newest i.
+ city in the new century. And i.
\. ies thought is new and modern, i.
= and its philosophy-drawn X
= from the oId-becomcs new !.
\. again in modern applications. X
4 IL scans well the pages of his i.
i. tory, so that, knowing the pit i.
!. falls that have been, IL can !.
+ avoid those TO be. Ii scans well -
- the future, and moves forward !.
= with great caution,-but il al 4.
= ways moves. i.
I. Nevertheless, il is not the !.
i. past nor the future that Paris Il
+ loves best. IL knows that the Il
4. past has gone, and that the fu- !.
- ture is not yet; and without Il
y. grieving for the one or fearing !.
Il the advent of the other, IL en- +
Il joys to the full the priceless !.
/ +NO"s~ ~ thJofH ~
= sanely. and soberly, and in i.
Il many ways. To develop in all i.
II ways is to be able to enjoy all i.
Il things; so love, money, art, I.
Il science, philosophy. literature, i.
Il nature, beauty, and work are X
Il all rovered by this wise city, !.
=. which believes that each in its j.
= proper place is good. 4
= Paris itself, as whole, as AN .f-
= entity, has an indescribable i.
+ fascination for its own people 4
= and for travellers ms well. !.
= Whole libraries have been writ Il
= ten OF il, but the story of Paris Il
!. has never been told, because no !.
II one knows or has known its =
= story. Whatever one seeks in .i-
= the world, Paris contains =
= Whatever men have done in =
=. the world, the effect, or ex- -
Il preston, is in Paris. And so in -f-
!. attempting to view this won Il
/ + der among cities it will be .f-
+ found TO reward being studied !.
= in its inner nature, as well as =
i. from the bird's-cye view of the !.
!. lover of panoramas,-and that, =
.i-too will repay the effort il costs. =
But this is only small part of
the text of this article. 1t abounds
throughout with something really
new in description. enhancing to the
deader in it's every line.
New York is the first city which
Mr.. Reed undertakes to compare with
Paris. The city standing as the
flower of new civilization" he be-
lieves will reach the grandeur that
Paris has reached, even though the
latter be twenty centuries old. Says
he: New York and the nation of
which 1t is the metropolis have been
too busy. and are too young, to have
equalled ancient Paris in the race for
superiority And he further AYERS
that it has been too poor to enter