"Such  a  talk  would  give  me  a  chance  to  let  off  some  of  the
enthusiasm  I  am  just  now  painfully  stirring  up  in  enforced
silence."  The  Forum  and  the  Atlantic  Monthly,  when
Page  was  editor,  showed  many  traces  of  his  interest  in
Wilson,  who  was  one  of  his  most  frequent  contributors.
When  Wilson  became  President  of  Princeton,  he  occasion-
ally called  upon  his  old  Atlantic  friend  for  advice.  He
writes  to  Page  on  various  matters — to  ask  for  suggestions
about  filling  a  professorship  or  a  lectureship;  and  there
are  also  references  to  the  difficulties  Wilson  is  having  with
the  Princeton  trustees.
Page's  letters  also  portray  the  new  hopes  with  which
Wilson  inspired  him.  One  of  his  best  loved  correspond-
ents was  Henry  Wallace,  editor  of  Wallace's  Farmer,  a
homely  and  genial  Rooseveltian.  Page  was  one  of  those
who  immensely  admired  Roosevelt's  career;  but  he  re-
garded him  as  a  man  who  had  finished  his  work,  at  least
in  domestic  affairs,  and  whose  great  claim  upon  posterity
would  be  as  the  stimulator  of  the  American  conscience.
