ADAM, PAUL (1862-192o), French novelist, was born in Paris on Dec. 7, 1862, and died there on Jan. 2, 192o. He was prosecuted for his first novel, Chair molle (1885), but was ac quitted. He collaborated with Jean Moreas in Le the chez Miranda (1886), and with Moreas and Gustave Kahn he founded the Symboliste, coming forward as one of the earliest defenders of symbolism. Among his numerous novels should be noted Le mystere des foules (1895), a study in Boulangism, Lettres de Malaisie (1897), a fantastic romance of imaginary future poli tics. In 1899 he began a novel-sequence, giving the history of the Napoleonic campaigns, the restoration, and the government. of Louis Philippe, comprising La force (I 899), L'enfant d'Auster litz (igoi), La ruse (1902), and Au soleil de Juillet (i9o3). In 190o he wrote a Byzantine romance, Basile et Sophia.' He was an indefatigable traveller, and in his later years much occupied with economic theory. Le Trust (1910) was the fruit of one of his journeys to America. Later books were Stephanie (1918) and during the World War Reims devastee and Le Lion d'Arras.