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books :•• A Hero Worshiped' Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship, 1880-1919, by Owen Wister. New York: The Macmillan Company. $4.00. IT WOULD be as difficult to write a dull book on...
...William Lyon Phelps...
...It seems probable that if he had not made that purely impulsive remark in 1904, he could have been nominated and elected in 1908...
...concerning Leaves of Grass, "who touches this book touches a man," may well be applied to Mrs...
...There is no excuse for a gratuitous insult to one of the most distinguished journalists in America...
...New York: The Century Co...
...The portraits of other leading men of the time are exceedingly well done, particularly those of Elihu Root, Jules Jusserand, Leonard Wood, Henry Adams and, by far the best, that of Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes...
...Michael Williams...
...2.50...
...Robert von Kellbr...
...Wister, however, is impulsive and violent...
...It is thirty years since Roosevelt was elected vice-president, an office he did not want and for which he was conspicuously unfitted...
...Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company...
...It is only natural that later the simple straightforwardness that enabled Krupp to beat his competitors by better steel and better guns, turned into a kind of rather pardonable naivete...
...De Blacam—if not to a novelist's Parnassus—at least to Tir nan Og...
...5.00...
...I do not like him any the less because he has no prudence...
...we fight in village brawls...
...One was his public announcement on the night of his election to the Presidency in 1904 that he would not be a candidate in 1908...
...As a banker, Mr...
...Both sincerely believed that those who differed from them on any important subject were mentally inferior and morally untrustworthy...
...It would have been better had he left out every reference to Charleston...
...Wister has run the risk of being called both conceited and boyish...
...She is a truly great character...
...As Mr...
...Julia K. Kernan...
...Imagine John Stuart Mill taking that attitude...
...But from the intimate view given by those letters, we see this industry constantly running the risk of a breakdown during half a century...
...Today we are astonished by the way in which the aged man tried to combat the growing danger of Socialism...
...2.50...
...Wister's readers will agree with his derogatory remarks on the conduct of Elihu Root in 1912...
...Conditions have changed since this exceptional man made his way through a world that very often met him with hostility...
...For more than seventy years, William J. Onahan was closely associated with the upbuilding of the midwestern metropolis, as a member of that group of potent men such as the first Carter Harrison, the elder Armones, Marshall Field, Melville E. Stone, Victor Lawson, who are recalled in the pages of this memoir by many interesting anecdotes...
...He is a man of strong principles which often seem only prejudices...
...Wister's praise of Roosevelt for repudiating remarks he had actually made, on the ground that the welfare of the country demanded it...
...the promise on the title page is fulfilled...
...Watterson, at that time editor of the Courier Journal...
...The book is exactly what it purports to be...
...Charles G. Dawes would have seemed conservative...
...Two such personalities could not possibly be on friendly terms...
...and yet they were alike in one respect...
...Industrial leadership has become rather a diplomatic and political task than a simple question of technical knowledge and commercial talent...
...Krupp struggled with all his force for the idea of sole-ownership against that of the "Jewish joint-stock companies...
...New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, Incorporated...
...He creates a Donegal lad confronted with the task of combing the four counties for his lost love—there is no other plot— and with him we travel the mountainy road of adventure...
...Here is well-bred discourse for the teacher of classics, the lover of Horace and the plain man who has dreamed for years of having a farm surrounded by cool hills...
...2.50...
...Root's integrity is as clear as his intellect...
...I understand that some references have been removed by the publishers...
...It is the record of a personal friendship, told in the manner of fireside talk...
...Hemphill, at that time editor of the Charleston News and Courier...
...143), because this very year we have a somewhat similar case, that of Professor Macintosh...
...A Walk to Horace's Farm, by E. K. Rand...
...Theodore Roosevelt, besides being a man of genius, was a consummate politician...
...Beside these, his hero and his lady pale in importance, and the beauty of Erin is the true heroine of the book...
...One may add that all the cathedrals dealt with are administered by the Church of England...
...Owen Wister is a literary artist, a novelist and publicist of distinction...
...Schwimmer (p...
...and take a part in the love and death of the Shanachie, the most interesting personage in the book, a wanderer and teller-of-tales, who sings and weaves stories of forgotten days...
...Not everyone will agree with Mr...
...xx FOURTH edition of Dr...
...De Blacam does not, as has been suggested, inherit the mantle of the late Donn Byrne...
...Every line of this collection—commercial letters, letters to his wife and to his son, addresses to his king elaborated in the devoted style of those days, memorandums to the Board of Proxies—shows this simplicity that was his force and his weakness...
...A true novelist is very rare among the Irish...
...Some of these faults made people love him even more, as they came from the impulses of a strong, genial, lovable man...
...Gallery's vivid little biography of her distinguished father: one of the pioneers and makers of Chicago...
...New York: The Dial Press...
...For example: "The director of the procession was a Mr...
...It is certain that something would have happened in the Senate compared to which the actions of Mr...
...But now particularly in Germany forms of enterprise far more complicated than the companies of 1870 are ruling production...
...It will be a long time before "The Virginian" is forgotten, and it deserves all its success...
...Today the large plants are devoted entirely to peaceful purposes, but the name of Krupp as an employer will be always connected with the history of social reforms...
...It is as if we were overhearing intimate conversations, as we certainly are reading intimate letters...
...But there are statements in his book on Roosevelt which make the reader stare and gasp...
...WALT WHITMAN'S phrase...
...Roosevelt are impeccably beautiful...
...for prudence is only a second-rate virtue...
...The letters show him specially interested in attaching the workmen and their families to the plant forever, and in establishing there a sound but perhaps sometimes too austere tradition...
...they should have been more drastic...
...Chicago: 'Loyola University Press...
...But then, Mill had no talent for the opportune...
...Like all social reforms brought about by industrial leaders, Krupp's had a basis of sympathetic common sense, but these were made possible only by an increasing production, due to his energy and to the century's development...
...The book was the choice of the Catholic Book Club for July—evidence that its literary qualities have found favor in high places...
...A Catholic Pioneer Life of William J. Onahan, by Mary Onahan Gallery...
...THE first novel to reach American readers from the pen of Hugh de Blacam, editor of the Dublin Standard, is fresh and convincing proof that the proper subject of conversation for an Irishman is Ireland...
...Very few of Mr...
...For my part, I am glad he has written in this manner, at whatever cost of ridicule from professional ironical reviewers...
...Onahan played a leading part in the business progress of his city, but it was through his work for education and for religion that he will long be remembered and held in honor...
...Roosevelt was a genius, and everything about him is interesting...
...Although the author idolizes his friend, the faults of the hero plainly appear...
...Everybody knows it—but in reading those letters, this difference comes to light in an astonishing way...
...He might just as well have said "In Louisville there was a Mr...
...All that the average educated traveler needs by way of historical comment and architectural information is available here...
...the other was his being a candidate in 1912...
...The best thing about this book is its intimacy, which perhaps will be taken by many readers for naivete: Mr...
...Roosevelt's letters about him...
...There are certain personalities that appeal irresistibly to the average man...
...But here is fancy and adventure slightly colored with mysticism, lovely writing, and a prevailing passion for the highways and byways of Ireland...
...edited by Wilhelm Berdrow, translated by E. W. Dickes...
...their talents are for other forms of literary art...
...These will win a passport for Mr...
...I have often wished, as the caddie said "just for the fun of it," that Roosevelt might have been vice-president a little longer...
...He has the rare good fortune of having published in 1902 a best seller which is also a best seller in 1930...
...Taft wittily said, "I owe both my nominations to Theodore Roosevelt...
...Outsiders see only the gorgeous development of an indebted, nearly ruined little factory, conducted by a young man of fourteen, to a world-known industry...
...Briefer Mention The Cathedrals of Great Britain, by P. H. Ditchfield...
...but he made two fatal errors...
...And admirers of Woodrow Wilson will be enraged at the publication of Mr...
...also the address delivered before the elections, advising his personnel not to vote against the government and announcing the candidacy of his son, "in order to give his support to the government's military estimates," would sound selfish and hypocritical issued by a cannon-builder—if we did not know that he believed very profoundly in the militaristic axioms common to most Europeans at this time...
...PROFESSOR RAND'S little book is the pleasant record of an agreeable journey to the site of Horace's Sabine farm...
...I am glad he has included the dissenting opinion of Judge Holmes on the case of United States vs...
...Perhaps only a character like Krupp's was able to carry this danger as a part of his duty: strengthened by the Prussian idea of "Pflicht," simple as a man who understands just his business, no more, but understands it well...
...One need not read long to discover the author's deep and passionate knowledge of Gaelic literature and lore, nor to feel that he is gifted in conveying to others his enthusiasm for an ancient land...
...The Prologue and Epilogue to Mrs...
...Even while looking at the scenery or stopping for a glass of wine, the author sets forth the available archaeological information and quotes appropriately from the poet...
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...IT WOULD be as difficult to write a dull book on Theodore Roosevelt as on Napoleon Bonaparte or Abraham Lincoln...
...or, if he had refused to run in 1912, nothing could have prevented his nomination and election in 1916...
...Essen's Maker Krupp: A Great Business Man Seen through His Letters...
...It is by all odds the best short work on the subject, being readable and combining impressive knowledge with sound judgment...
...Ditchfield's manual, incorporating not a few additions and corrections, should be welcome...
...But, like John Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester Arthur, it was not long after the inauguration that he became President...
...These adventures are so romantic and so loosely-woven that the book can scarcely be called a novel...
...A PUBLICATION of letters is intended rather to show ¦**¦ the man than the work, but here the man seems to disappear entirely behind his task, and only with reticence reveals his personality...
...The Spell of Deirdre The Flying Cromlech, by Hugh de Blacam...
...We meet with strange characters and happenings...
Vol. 12 • August 1930 • No. 15
