Review of reviews and world's work . camera-portraits taken at various times between theundergraduate days at Harvard and the home-coming from Africa there are at least one thing the compiler of this volumedeserves especial credit: that, although aclose friend and frank admirer of the man hecelebrates, he has not confined his selectionof cartoons to such as depict their subjectin his most heroic or pleasing aspects, buthas included not a few from sources avowedlyhostile, his only discrimination seeming to beagainst those obviously inspired by mere wan-ton malice. He has certainly c
Review of reviews and world's work . camera-portraits taken at various times between theundergraduate days at Harvard and the home-coming from Africa there are at least one thing the compiler of this volumedeserves especial credit: that, although aclose friend and frank admirer of the man hecelebrates, he has not confined his selectionof cartoons to such as depict their subjectin his most heroic or pleasing aspects, buthas included not a few from sources avowedlyhostile, his only discrimination seeming to beagainst those obviously inspired by mere wan-ton malice. He has certainly chosen thepsychological moment for the issue of such avolume, while the two great parties are en-1 in their periodical game of politicaliw, and the ex-President, a> the Amer-ican with the largest individual following andthe most comprehensive of economic creeds,is playing candlestick on the fulcrum. TheCartoon History of Roosevelts Career isa striking tribute to the power of one strongnality under our system of WILLIAM JAMES: BUILDER OFAMERICAN IDEALS BY EDWIN BJORKMAN \TILLIAM JAMES was an unusually^ charming and lovable personality: afriend as few; a student without bias or fear;a born teacher; an artist possessed of a rarepower to move and inspire. He was themodern American thinker whose name appearswith greatest frequency in European worksof learning. But he was something muchmore; a prophet in the highest sense—one ofthose epoch-making men in whom the ad-vanced ideals of vast social groups and wholeperiods become articulate. The intellectualbrilliancy which enabled him to see a littlemore deeply and to think a little more clearlythan the rest of his generation would notsuffice to explain his position as one who, ac-cording to G. K. Chesterton, was really aturning point in the history of our own such an explanation we must bear inmind the presence within him. from fir-t toof a living tire, a passionate attachmentto real life, that made him a
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