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THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO., 18 Astor Place, New York City. 631 636 With portraits If America has produced greater men of letters than Mark Twain, certainly no other writer has held for such a long time so much of the esteem and affection of contemporary Americans. For fifty years Mark Twain has been making the world glad. The twenty-five volumes of his collected works contain one hundred and seventy-one titles, ranging from the boisterous fun-making that was, perhaps, more a literary fashion of the past generation than the present, to his historical writings, of which the best example is "Joan of Arc" (1896). Mr. Clemens' life story is as picturesque as the quality of his humor. Born in 1835 at Hannibal, Missouri, he was apprenticed to a printer at twelve years of age; in early manhood he was pilot of a Mississippi steamboat; at twenty-seven he was editor of a paper in a Western mining camp, and then a real miner himself. In the decade following 1870 he became famous as a humorist. "The Jumping Frog," which more than any other single story began his fame, appeared in 1867. Forty-one years later he was still hard at work writing his autobiography. Two or three years ago Mr. Clemens set up his house hold gods at Redding Ridge, Connecticut, where he built a stately house in a lovely countryside. THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS VOL. XLI. NEW YORK, MAY, 1910 No. 5 THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD Roosevelt The plain American people will as they presented themselves, doing well the Facing not seek for any hidden motives thing that came to him rather than seeking Homeward or pre-arranged schemes to ac- for something better to do. He put as much count for the great ovations Mr. Roosevelt energy and enthusiasm into being Police is receiving everywhere along the route of Commissioner of New York City as into behis European trip. Nor will they believe ing President. In his very youthful days that any one has planned Mr. Roosevelt's as a member of the Legislature of New York movements or utterances with a view to affecting American politics or his own future as a public man. From his own standpoint, the many pleasant experiences of his travel in Europe are but a fruitage of his energetic and useful career. All through life he has laid strong, brave hands upon opportunites he struck telling blows for reform that have never been forgotten; so that his aggressive work at Albany almost thirty years ago bears a definite, historical relationship to the stirring achievements of the present season for the correction of evils in the law-making and administrative departments of the great State of New York. The same spirit of zeal, enthusiasm, and whole-heartedness that was evident in his work as a legislator at Albany, and afterwards as chairman of the Civil Service Board at Washington, was shown in his literary work, when, for instance, he put his best effort into studying American naval history at the moment of his leaving college and wrote a standard book upon the naval side of our war of 1812. When private circumstances took him to the West and made him a cattle ranchman in the little Missouri country, he seized with characteristic courage and avidity upon the opportunities to share those phases of frontier life that he knew must soon pass away. In his hunting of Western game he was only incidentally the man who destroyed animal life. He was primarily the man who studied animal life, and interpreted it for healthy American boys, in order to keep alive in them the self-reliant and observant qualities of the pioneer race. that had for a century or two been redeeming the North American continent. And now he has been studying African faunal life in the same thorough-going way. Copyright, 1910, by THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS COMPANY What Makes ROOSEVELT AS "CHANTECLER" From the World (New York) Mr. Roosevelt simply exemplifies terrors for him. Opportunities for the useUp His the traits of energy and diligence ful and happy exercise of his faculties lay all "Greatness"? applied in worthy directions, as about him. He would have found great conthe conditions of life have presented their tentment in doing his best as a farmer, an opportunities one after another. It is not the editor, a lawyer, a soldier, a sailor, an exessential thing in his career that circum- plorer, a college professor, or a writer of stances led him into fields of public service books. But it happened that he liked politics and into the holding of our highest offices and office, and his fellow-citizens called him under democratic forms of government. The to those places of public service which his important thing is the habit of doing one's best, and being at one's best. Mr. Roosevelt's greatness, whatever that word greatness may signify, is not attested by the fact that he became Governor, Vice-President, and PresiA man who has filled thirty dent. Sometimes the holding of high office. One Supreme years of maturity with such puts a man where his lack of the quality of varied social and political activgreatness becomes painfully visible. Mr. ity as Mr. Roosevelt has shown, can hardly Roosevelt's success as a public man was chief-, turn in any direction without meeting with ly due to the fact that private life had no pleasant reminders of friendships and asso qualities of honesty, versatility, decisiveness, and quick initiative gave him a peculiar fitness for filling with credit and usefulness. He Has |