Review of reviews and world's work . either of them, for example, hashad any use for assistants whom they triedan I found wanting; and such men have beenfull of bitterness and criticism on cominghome, though the fact was that, even if theytried to be useful, they had failed; and lead-ers are not always patient with incompetency. Few men have ever been more completelyabsorbed by their idea than has Peary. Henever went the length of great menwho sacrificed family and friends to theirhobbies, but he pushed a good way towardthat limit. Men who have known him wellfor twenty years have never h
Review of reviews and world's work . either of them, for example, hashad any use for assistants whom they triedan I found wanting; and such men have beenfull of bitterness and criticism on cominghome, though the fact was that, even if theytried to be useful, they had failed; and lead-ers are not always patient with incompetency. Few men have ever been more completelyabsorbed by their idea than has Peary. Henever went the length of great menwho sacrificed family and friends to theirhobbies, but he pushed a good way towardthat limit. Men who have known him wellfor twenty years have never heard him ex-press an opinion on politics, art, literature, orreligion. Like all men of mentality and in-formation he has opinions on these and othertopics and his range of general interests isas wide as that of most men who are dis-tinctly specialists. But he is so full andoverflowing with the things which interesthim most that scarcely any one, outside hisinner circle of friends, knows any other side PH/IRY: A CHARACTER SKETCH. 429. Copyright. 1908, by Underwood <t Underwood. N. Y. COMMANDER ROBERT E. PEARY. of him. Hundreds of men who think theyare well acquainted with him have seen onlythe gentleman, the captain of men, the en-thusiastic explorer. AX EXPLORER WITH DOMESTIC INSTINCTS. It may seem strange to say of a man whohas been happih married for twenty-oneyears and has spent only three of them inthe home of his family that domesticity is apassion with him. It would be an imperti-nence to speak here of this phase of Peary ifIt were not the honest desire, however in- adequately fulfilled, to give some glimpsesof the man himself, who is known to theworld at large only as the brilliant is the dearest place on earth to who have seen him there know who have heard him speak of his longyears of separation from his wife and chil-dren and his lamented mother know are those who, in the way of dutyassigned by the explorer, have had occasi
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