I'm reading the four gospels now, and the 'Varieties of Religious Experience.'" "What chiefly started you ?" "Wells, I guess, and Tolstoi, and a man named Edward Carpenter.

I've been reading for over a year now--on a few lines, on what I consider the essential lines." "Poetry ?" "Well, frankly, not what you call poetry, or for your reasons--you two write, of course, and look at things differently.

Whitman is the man that attracts me." "Whitman ?" "Yes; he's a definite ethical force." "Well, I'm ashamed to say that I'm a blank on the subject of Whitman.
How about you, Tom ?" Tom nodded sheepishly.
"Well," continued Burne, "you may strike a few poems that are tiresome, but I mean the mass of his work.

He's tremendous--like Tolstoi.

They both look things in the face, and, somehow, different as they are, stand for somewhat the same things." "You have me stumped, Burne," Amory admitted.