. Review of reviews and world's work. life onthe AYestern plains, of hunting in the Bad Landsof Dakota, where he built his ranch on the banksof the Little Missouri, are written out of the mansheart. Mr. Roosevelts recent protest against the im-pertinent intrusion of the cameia fiend upon theseclusion of his home life at Oyster Bay was per-fectly characteristic of him, and of his way ofsaying the right thing at the right time. Thewhole country applauded it. In his home ceases to be governor of the EmpireState, and beconus husband and father, the com- 186 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW
. Review of reviews and world's work. life onthe AYestern plains, of hunting in the Bad Landsof Dakota, where he built his ranch on the banksof the Little Missouri, are written out of the mansheart. Mr. Roosevelts recent protest against the im-pertinent intrusion of the cameia fiend upon theseclusion of his home life at Oyster Bay was per-fectly characteristic of him, and of his way ofsaying the right thing at the right time. Thewhole country applauded it. In his home ceases to be governor of the EmpireState, and beconus husband and father, the com- 186 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REFIEIVS. panion of his children, wlio treat liim like theirbig, overgrown brother. His love for children,especially for those who have not so good a timeas some others, is as instinctive as his champion-ship of all that needs a lift. I doubt if he isaware of it himself. He does not recognize asIeal sympathy what he feels rather as a sense ofduty. Yet I have seen him, when school chil-dren crowded around the rear platform of the. THE liATE THEODORE ROOSEVELT, ESQ. (Father of Governor Roosevelt.) train from which he had been making campaignspeeches, to shake hands, catch the eye of a poorlittle crippled girl in a patched frock, who wasmaking frantic but hopeless efforts to reach himin the outskirts of the crowd, and, pushing asideall the rest, make a way for her to the greatamazement of the curled darlings in the frontrow. And on the trip home, on the last nightof the canvass of 1898, when we were at dinnerin his private ca,r, busy reckoning up majorities,I saw him get up to greet the engineer of thetrain, who came in his overalls and blouse toshake hands, with such pleasure as 1 had notseen him show in the biggest meeting we hadhad. It was a coincidence and an omen that t1iename of the engineer of that victorious trip wasDewey. That bent of liis is easily enough hangs in his study at Oyster Bay, apartfrom the many trophies of the chase, the pictureof a man w
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