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The President a True Citizen ACOB A. RIIS has written a book about an ideal American citizen, that citizen being none other than the highest citizen in United States — Theodore osevelt, the President. It is a book of adulation, for it is n Jacob Riis, than whom President Roosevelt has no more stanch friend true admirer. It 1s equally as kly largely a personal record, for b is has had probably a closer cy and a nearer affiliation with sevelt than any other fe. It is above all else lear cut study of the wonder- 1 tremendously forceful ts the state. Adu- Theodore Roosevelt e adulation cannot withheld by any reviewer of The personal note sound- e work does but give hority—the authority and which knows. Other sevelt have been writ- en, but none will v breathing picture of that Riis does. nkly it?” asks Rils. t for the Presi- that comes soon? matters less that President, but it hat the things sents in the ne- mattered more nt day of ours—right me to speak of he man. And this more gladly privilege to w0 know him 1, the President. and a very en- and so really do the sense which The public man I will he is square, and will are thing always, not mere- do it. With the partisan I lisagree, at least I as before a Democrat if the party se and bar Tam- old £ its mon- he President reason, but the friend I can make you see him and a man, I have given key to him as a states- u will never need to to the is the sea: of “Theodore Citizen"—to show the side, his qualities him a good father, a good a good citizen and from these, President. Riis shows how it President who boldly op- 2 in the anthracite coal winter of 1902 acted so e Roosevelt, the Police Commis- f New York, had scattered the ng Mulberry street in s the natal forces of mar nate depth of character strength of will which impels him whether as Civil Service Com- every mak missioner, colonel of Rough Riders or President of the United States. He analyzes Roosevelt's methods of thought and action so that behind the oft criticized “impulsiveness” of the President one is allowed to see the swift, sure grasp of intellect which weighs carefully yet expeditiously ev question before action is deter- mined upon. As Riis truthfully says, he has only to show Roosevelt the man and Roosevelt the President will be disclosed. Roosevelt's boyhood days present no more interesting material to the author than do those of any other men for their biographers. There has been a goodly store of anecdote about Roose- velt's college days at Harvard, but Riis adds to it with the following story of how the young scholer, who had be- come & teacher in an Episcopal Sun- day school, rewarded bravery to the detriment of his position as an expon- ent of holy peace: ““With chapécteristic directness,” says Rlis, “he was laying down the way of life to the boys and girls in his class when en untoward event happened. One of his boys came to school with @ black eye. He owned up that he had got it in & fight and on Sunday. His teacher made stern inquiry. “Jim' somebody, it appeared, who sat be- side his sister, had been pinching her @il through the hour, and when they came out they had a stand-up fight nd he punched him good, bearing eway the black eye as his share. The rdict was prompt. ““You did perfectly right,’ said his teacher, and he gave him a dollar.” Roosevelt's first tilt at politics was as an Assemblyman in the Legislature of New York, where, though a graduate from college of barely a year, the young exponent of “the- ten commandments in politics” stood out for eight days alone in determined attack upon the Attorney General of the State and a Judge of the Supreme Court for corrup- tion, until he finally swung the oppo- sition over his way. His fearless can- dor in attack in this instance is called by Rils the deciding act in his career. This made him politically, notwith- standing the disgruntled politicians, who were not used to doing things that way, and from Speaker of the Assem- bly at 24 he became Non-Partisan can- didate for Mayor of New York. He was defeated, as everybody knows, but, as Rile says, “he had contributed some- thing to that campaign that had life in it.” It was in his labors as Civil Service Commissioner that Riis finds Roosevelt exhibiting the qualities which won for kim the name of being a fearless fighter for clean service in public office. “You are certainly to be congratu- lated,” wrote President Cleveland, “ipon the extent and permanency of civil service reform methods which you bave so substantially aided in bri '3 about. The struggle for its firm lishment and recognition is past. Its faithful application and reasonable ex- pansion remain, subjects of deep inter- est to all who really desire the best at- tainable public service.” Of Roosevelt's fight against police corfuption while President of the Po- lice Commissioners of New York Riis has already written in his “Making of an American.” With the subject of his < > ;‘/ % /‘:\‘OO R THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL. l . B OOSEVE LT e~ OoR - ST ZENS book seated as Assistant Secretary of the Navy Riis has an opportunity to deal with the oft-raised criticism that Roosevelt was with the jingoes who urged war with Spain for,war's sake. “The war wa moral issue with him,” writes Rils, “as_indeed it was with all of us who understood. It was with such facts as these (stories of re- concentrados’ sufferings)—and there was no lack of them—in mind and heart that he responded hotly to Sen- ator Hanna pleading for peace for the sake of the country’s commerce and prosperity, that much as he appre- ciated those blessings, the honor of the country was of more account than tem- porary business prosperity. It has slipped my mind what was the partic- uylar occasion—some club gathering— but I have not forgotten the profound impression the Naval Secretary’s words made as he insisted that our country could better afford to lose a thousand of the bankers that have added toits wealth than one Farragut; that it were better for it never to have had all the rail- road magnates that have built it up, great as is their deserving, than to have lost Grant and Sherman; better that it had never known commercial greatness than that it should miss from its history one Lincoln. Unless the moral overbalance the material, we are indeed riding for a fall in all our\ pride.” Riis adds nothing to the account of Roosevelt's part in the hostilities in Cuba that has not already been writ- ten. It Is with him in the Governor's chalr of New York that the author finds the place to define Roosevelt's theories concerning the party and the machine. “I am a loyal party man, but I believe very firmly that I can best render aid to my party by doing all that in me, lles to make that party responsive to the needs of the State, responsive to the needs of the people.”” With these words Roosevelt himself has defined his allegiance to the organization he rep- resents. Rlis shows that the Governor of New York had associated himself with the party machine just so far as by it he might be enabled to effect good ends. But “he had built up no machine of his own. He had used that which he found to the uttermost of its bent and of his ability—not always with the good will of the managers, but he had used it for the things he had in mind, telling the bosses that for all other legitimate purposes, for organization, for power, they might have it; he should not hinder them.” Roosevelt’s policy in the White House, his handling of the many mo- mentous questions which have come up to him for solution, is beyond the scope of Rils’ work; that is material for edi- torfal and historical review rather than for & work upon the man himself. Sat- isfying himself with the analysis of Roosevelt's characteristics of thought and action as shown in his incumbency in other offices, Rils does not permit his book to assume the character of campaign material by commenting on Presidential policies. The great store of anecdote concern- ing Roosevelt's home life and his at- tributes as head of a family, sportsman and writer, which, perforce, have been omitted from this review on account of the political significance of the book, all serve to show the many-sidedness of the man and are indicative of his remarkable personality. To Roose- velt as a friend Rils offers this whole- hearted testimony: “1 think I neyef knew a man who so utterly trusts a friend, once he has taken him to his heart. That he does not do easily or ofthand; but once he has done it there is no reservation or secret drawback to his friendship. It is a splendid testimony to ‘the real worth of human nature that his trust has rarely indeed been betrayed. Once his friend, you are his friend forever. To the Infallible test he rings true; those who love him best are those who know him best. The men who hate him are the scalawags and the self- seekers, and they only distrust him who do not know him. He never lost a friend once made.” (The Outlook Publishing Company, New York. Illustrated. Price $2.) Doctor Pepper’s Life Is Written DID it deliberately, and am not 4 CI-orrv. but I must pay the price.” That was the reflection of a true American when, upon his death- bed, he reviewed the tremendous ef- forts for good done by him with all the vl‘u! energies of a short life and at Pe the cost of that life itself. That Ynan was Dr. Willlam Pepper, provost and recreator of the University of Pennsyl- vania, founder of the University Hos- pital, the Commercial Museums and ¥ree Library of Philadelphia, munici- pal reformer, public benefactor, scien- tific author and skilled phygfcian. Such a sublimely unselfish avowhl from such a man, unselfish even in ‘the face of self-courted death, should be inscribed L_on the flyleaf of his biography, written by Francis Newton Thorpe. For this keynote of Dr. Pepper’s life Is the keynote of this book on his life; unselfishness in remarkable endeavor for the good of others. The biographer has a strong call for the writing of a life such as was that of William Pepper. Representative of all that is best in the American—cul- ture, exalted ideals and a lofty pur- pose, an examplar of the restless and all absorbing spirit of doing, a reflec- tion of the strong and compelling de- sire for the intellectual uplifting of the peuple’s spiritual conscience, William Pepper’s life presents an ideal for the exaltation of every man's conception of life and a life’s work. Despite the manifold interests which crowded themselvés ubon the consideration of Pennsylvania’s provost rnd despite ¢he many divergent channels into which his activities were turned, the man whom Thorpe pictures appearssingular- ly to be the manifestation of just that one element, unselfishness. All of his attributes, faithfully chronicled by his blographer, contributed to that domi- nant characteristic of his personality. Dr. Pepper laid the groundwork for the intense energies of after years in the university overMwhich he was des- tined to be made the executive. Grad- uating from Pennsylvania in 1862 and receiving his M. D. from the medical department of the same institution in '64, he became almost immediately a part of the medical facylty. At once he began the long series of endeavors in behalf of the University of Penn- sylvania, which succeeded In revivi- fying the somewhat dispirited and age- worn institution. Though barely 27 years of age when in 1870 there began to be agitated a hospital to be under the direction of the university, Pepper threw himself into the stubborn con- test with wonderful zeal, assalling the Legislature of the State and approach- ing private individuals in his effort to bring about the desired innovation. The hospital was bullt. The extension of the university to the outside world next deianded Pep- per’s attention. Lecturers such as are now supported by all of the largest universities were provided to mark the innovation of the university extension system. Then followed his efficient service as medictal director of the Cen- tennial Exhibition {n 1876. In 1880 he was chosen provost of the university, a place held by him until the exi- gencies of declining health forced him to surremnder it in later years. The story of the multitudinous reforms, in- novations and improvements made by the provost during his long term of office is the story of Pennsylvania’'s elevation Into the rank of one of the “Big Four” among Eastern universi- ties. The biographer shows: For the city of Philadelphia Dr. Pepper’s efforts were equally, tireless. In 1891 he inaugurated a miovement looking toward the establishment of a free public library. But to bring about a successful fruition of his plans Dr. Pepper had to meet Coun- cilmen and ward politicians upon their own ground, solicit favorable action from the Legislature and work inde- fatigably to arouse the support of the people for the measure. This accom< plished, he turned his attentions to- ward the establishment of the com- merclal museums and the Free Mu- seum of Science and Art. Before these institutions became accomplished facts their patron had raised above $1 000,000, of which half a million was from his ewn purse, and secured from the municipality nearly a hundred acres of land near the heart of Phil- adelphia. Besides these material evi- ‘dences of striving for a higher intel~ AU THOR O I THECODORE ROOSENVE-T THE iz EN Y lectual standard for the people, Dr. Pepper threw himself into education- al reforms and a move for the puri- fication of the city’'s water supply. Then, as the culminating impulse of his restless desire for the good of others he devoted his supreme ener- gles in the interests of the National University at Washington. “It is all very well to prate of con- tentment and pleasure,’ wrote Dr. Pepper, “I am debauched by affairs and know no peace of mind except in the midst of full activity.” This could not be forever. The biographer pic- tures with a deal of pathos how Dr. Pepper would continue writing sixty odd letters a day, giving lectures, healing the sick, working ever for the good of some one, when in his five or six sleeping hours hé would be racked by the pains which were to be with him in the death throes. At last, over in the haclenda of Mrs. Hearst at Pleasanton the life left this tireless worker. In” his lengthy work upon the life of this representative American the author has shown every endeavor to chronicle all of the manifold activi- ties of the subject of his blography, leaving no stone unturned in his ef- fort to picture the true man. He needs no art save that of simple narrative to make his “Life of Willlam Pepper, M. D, LL. D.” a work pregnant of exalted suggestion. (J. B. Lippincott Company, Phila- delphia; illustrated; price, $350.) Story of Susan a Diverting One ERILS are set about the path of the novelist who would bulld a story about the intricacies of a religious doctrine or the clash of creeds. It must be a very narrow path between prejudice and favoritism that he treads, and the danger of offending almost outweighs the chances of pleas- ing. Mrs. Henry Dudeney, whose pre- yious storles have ‘given her well-mer- ited strength for the task, has essayed this Blondin-like feat with a success that is not altogether unqualified in her latest book, “The Story of Susan.” The burden of Mrs. Dudeney’s story is the blighting effect upon the human soul which she belfeves straight-laced Methodism to exert. How harrowing to peace of mind are the zealous, al- most fanatical efforts of some religion- ists to disassociate soul and body and to indulge in constant and unnatural self-sacrifice! She would show that morbid Introspection and ruthless vivi- section of one’s conscience under the spur of misconcetved duty toward God is nothing less than a self-inflicted tor- ture, productive of no good. Hers is a revolt against the modern interpreta- tion, strong indeed among some sects, of the ancient Hebraic tenet of a stern and avenging Almighty. Powerful a theme though this may be, and mani- fest as the author's desire to handle it delicately is, she has not been able to evade altogether the danger zone of blas. A story, otherwise beautiful, must, of a consequence, suffer the dis- L] approval of some whose skins are tender. Susan, the heroine about whom the chill pall of religious fanaticism is thrown, is one who must leap into the heart of the reader at the first from the filmy cloud of her own ingenuous- ness. She is childish, pretty, light- hearted—suchr a picture of girlhood in the romance days of the young Victo- ria has Miss Edgeworth drawn. From her sweet,care-free village life Susan s suddenly plunged under the dank cloud of religious bigotry; she becomes per- suaded that infant damnation lost her her soul &t the very beginning and that there is nothing left for her but sack- cloth and ashes of contrition. The en- suing spiritual grovellng and wild abandon of this sweet girl is pictured with terrible earnestness until at last the reader is so sympathetic that he, in spirit, s endeavoring to ease the load from the young shoulders. So deep a gloom permeates the body of the story that Mrs. Dudeney.cannot consclentiously allow the personages “to live happlly ever afterward,” and the close of the tale, therefore, wit- nesses Susan and her lover at least In a more comfortable frame of mind. Aside from the plot, Mrs. Dudeney’s last story has a characteristic charm of atmosphere. The little English village of the '40’s, with its quiet pastoral beauty of hawthorn hedge and green downs, the quaint folk who are of it al the fascinating archaic spirit which permeates the place and the peo- ple, all make a background of soft col- ors which serves to soften the grim grays and blacks of the plot. (Dodd, Mead & Cb., New York; illus- trated; price $1 50.) Modern Commerce in Expert’s Eyes ECTURES on Commerce” - is the title of a remarkably timely and practical book just issued by the University of Chicago. It comprises a se- ries of sixteen lectures grouped under the general headings of railways, trade and industry and banking and insur- ance which were delivered before the students last year by experts thor- oughly conversant with the subjects of their discourses. Each lecture deals in an able manner with a special branch of commercial activity and the univer- [ tion of men and women for the single profession ¢f teaching. One result of this {s that the ablest youths of the country do not attend the universities, but pass straight from school to com- mercial and industrial offices. This s also referred to by A. F. Dean, in his lecture on “Fire Insur- ance.” After noticing the great bene- fits German students and apprentices gained in the days of old when looking about their fatherland during their wanderjahr, he draws attention to the fact that ““the American student seldom has a wanderjahr or journey of inspec- tion. He is generally lassoed fresh from school, bridled, saddled and put to work under the merciless spur of necessity.” The lecturer says that a good commercial school that acquires the occasional services of lecturers, practically engaged In commercial oe- cupations, may take the place of the wanderjahr and may instruct the stu- dent by means of lectures and a com- plete portrayal of the leading indus- tries of the country. Some noteworthy statements are made In a lecture on ‘*Methods of Banking” by James H. Eckles, pres- ident of the Commercial National Bank of Chicago. According to Eckles, the loaning of money by banks on real estate mortgages is a positive source of danger. Many of the leading Chi- cago banks refuse to undertake this risk and some modern banks are pro- hibited by their charters from issuing any loans ~n real estate. Experience has shown that the safest and best se- curities are commercial bjlls. Nowa- days business men of the larger firms do not borrow direct from a bank, but from commercial note brokers and dis- counters. The result is that they do not know what bank supplies the money. They get a check from the note broker; when the note becomes due thev are notifled by the institu- tion then holding it. This system, which has grown to large proportions recently, has greatly enlargéd the in- fluence of banks and has been highly beneficial to the banks themselves. (University of Chicago Press; price $150.) Good Material : in Small Dolume HE recent appearance upon the book stalls of classics from American literature bearing upon their high green cloth covers the legend, “Howard Wilford Bell— The TUnit Books,” has aroused the curiosity of bibliolaters. First there came “The Marble Faun,” then “Let- ters and Addresses of Abraham Lincoln,” to be followed by the recently published ‘“Tales of Mys- tery” of Edgar Allan Poe and George Willlam Curtis’ “Prue and L" The volumes are printed in broad-faced type upon a soft, white paper, bound in paper, cloth and leather—very handy, very attractive and very cheap. The unit system upon which they are sold is what wiil interest book buyers, for it is unique. Says the publisher: “Our books are sold at prices based on the length of the book and there- fore on the actual cost of production. However long the original text, we publish it in its entirety on a uniform quality of paper and in the same size of type. We begin /with our unit of twenty-five pages. The price of each set of twenty-five pages is 1 cent. The price of 100 pages is 4 cents and each additional twenty-five pages adds 1 cent to the price. Thus, 250 pages cost 10 cents and 400 pages cost 16 cents. A paper wrapper is given with the printed pages. The cloth cover costs 30 cents additional. The full leather binding costs 50 cents additional. The price of a single volume is regulated by the number of units it contains and by the binding you choose.” Thus one may buy his classics as he would his plain smoked or sugar cured bams. The publisher assures us that these additions are not piracies, but since that is a matter solely for the publisher’s conscience, the reader need not worry himseif over it. The books carry an added merit in that the text is liberally supplemented by intelll- gent bibliographical notes and expla- nations of all allusions. Especial praise is due the “de luxe” edition—if such may be styled the leather bound copy—of Poe’s “Tales of Mystery and Imagination.” Besides a fitting Beardsleyesque cover design In gold, Alice B. Woodward has supplied some wonderfully telling illustrations in blgck and white. Tolstoy Shown in Bas:Relief ERHAPS nobody can write a " thoroughly impartial and coldly critical life of Leo Tolstoy, dean of Russian letters. This because one is either an ardent admirer and consequent b\nna disciple of the great novelist or he is his enemy and a bit- ter scoffer. sonality, his dogmatic iteration of the scheme of philosophy which he has evolved and the stern, almost fanatical manner in which he puts this philoso- phy into practice leave no middle ground of dispassionate review for one who must be familiar enough with his subject to write of the man and his works. This self-ordained anchorite, who has seen all, known all that there is in life and who has retired to the fastness of Yasnaya Polyana, there to become the high priest and chisf worshiper of a religion of his own evolving, is either a great man or a great fool; it is not for this generation to decide with authority. To Professor sity is well advised in issuing them in *Edward A. Steiner, whose book “Tol- a finely printed volime like the pres- ent one. The opening lecture, devoted to a dis- cussion of “Higher Commerclal Edu- cation,” contains an able defense of commercial schools from the severe criticisms of the conservative advocates of the old classical method of scholas- ties. Professor J. Laurence Laughlin, the author of the address, deplores the fact that at present the great univer- sities of America, which have been en- dowed Wwith greater riches than of any other country, fall lamentably in Influencing the country’s commerciat development, and, apart from the medi- cal, legal and'theclogical departments, are practically confined to the prepara- stoy the Man” has just appeared, be is.a great man. The author, who holds the chair of applied Christianity in Iowa College, had once, while a student in Germany, made a pilgrimage on foot across Rus- sia t6 see the man who wrote “War and Peace.” When he came away he was sure that Tolstoy was a great man. ‘With this conviction all unchanged by the lapse of years Professor Steiner re- turned to the shrine of his worship year to be more assured that Tol- stoy was the one prophet besides whom there were no others. Such he found him still to be and of him as such does he write in his book. “For,” says he, “Tolstoy belongs to the few among the Tolstoy’s tremendous per- - QK S BOOKMEN - great whose glory does not disappear by contact with them; in fact he is greatest and noblest at short range. His speech has none of the hardness which rings so unpleasantly in his writ- ings, his voice has that tender tone which woos and wins one.” The author plans his book not after a rigid adherence to chronological facts in the life of Tolstoy, but with a pur- pose, rather, of tracing the growth and development of his subject’s intellect- 4 ual and spiritual life. Tolstoy as the sensitive, dreaming child, dubbed “Phil- osopher” by his fellows, and himseif knowing not what it was in him that made him the ugly duckling of the family and the schocl, rapidly becomes the landed proprietor with humanita- rian aspirations, and then the de- bauchee. The author then gives us & glimpse of Tolstoy, the young soldler, who had first begun to write and to whom this philosophy, rudiment of what was to be. builded on in later years, had come:* “First, the purifi- cation and development of self through casting off the prejudices and evil ef- fects of our culture, and secondly, that where such culture has not penetrated we find the virtues which society must make its own for the sake of its true growth and salvation.” This, then, the author finds to be the first fruits of Tolstdy’s budding genfus for philosoph= fcal creation. From these primal ut- terances of the philosopher-to-be Stein~ er leads the subject of his work om from strength to strength, outlining the influences which came to shape the mind of the writer and sketching by analysis of his successive works the growth of his scheme for the solution of the life problem, “He walked through Italy like am iconoclastic Rgritan; so full of thoughts of man’s sins and man’s sufferings that hardly a ray of its matchless beauty penetrated those sharp, half closed eyes, shaded by a knitted brow.” In Switzerland an incident of a beggar musician who received no dole for his strains of harmony “proved to Toistoy that culture has destroyed in man his simple, natural and original feeling to- ward others.” His story, “Family Hap- piness,” was an attempt to found a theory of marriage based upon & spir- itual exaltation. The death of a broth- er caused him to mourn that life Is terrible, art is a lie and truth is awful. Thus was the flickering pressure of’ passing circumstance registered upon the delicate barometer of Tolstoy's mind until Steiner finds him in the depths of agnosticism just prior to the writing of “Anna Karenina.” That powerful tragedy with its keen study of the whole gamut of class, so- cial development and human character, marks for Steiner the parting of the ways for Tolstoy, ‘the iconoclast and hedonist. “Not unlike Solomon,” writes Steiner, “having tasted of all that the world could give him, Tolstoy ecries out: ‘Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.’ ‘What profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under the sun?’ " To priests and theologians Tolstoy turned for a ray of light in his dark- ness, but he found that their lives be- lied their professions. Then at last he found what his heart desired in the peasants whom alone he thought to be reallv conversant with God through their simple lives. Then came the Tol- stoy of the peasant's frock and bare feet, the Tolstoy of the new spciological religion of “the law of Jesus.” In his review of the philosophy of Tolstoy Steiner takes the view that th: Russian novelist has no desire te proselyte in favor of the revelation he thinks to be his nor to be a second John the Baptist to make straight the way of the Lord. On the other hand, he is certain that Tolstoy’s scheme of life was developed only to relieve the travall of doubt and despair whish pressed upon him and that it is more a personal possession than a far-flung dogma. “He was born with a sensi- tive conscience,” says BSteiner. “It constantly judged and accused him and none the less his surroundings, mak- ing plain to him always the contrest between the ideal and the real; cone sequently thers was a continual struge gle going on within him. 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