"Men of Good Will" is the series, Jules Romains the writer, and his canvas is very large. Concentrating on french life for the period 1908 to 1933,, he tried to create a rival to "War and Peace'. His focus, however is more on the details of French upper middle class life than the thunder of Napoleonic upheaval. It is a careful reconstruction and often interesting, but not compelling in translation. This is the second last volume, and our teacher turned politician is closing off an old love affair, and the poet is trying to deal with the twenties and post Great War angst. ( )