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series of bad portraits of the author standing in fatuous 

 attitudes over mangled corpses of deceased hartebeests. 

 lions, and zebras. 



Roosevelt probably knew this himself, but his book was 

 written for the man in the street^ and so lie perhaps felt that 

 those horrible portraits were expected of him, but it only 

 reminds us of Corney Grain's 



'' Choir-boy whose voice o'er-topped the rest, 

 Though veiy in-artistic, the public like it best." 



Theodore Roosevelt was certainly one of the most 

 remarkable men of this or any other time. In person he 

 was the embodiment of physical fitness, being an expert 

 rider and shot and skilled in most games. Mentally he was 

 a giant whose broad vision ranged over a vast variety of 

 subjects. At one sitting I have heard him discuss Big 

 Game hunting, Bimetallism, Zoology, Geography, National 

 Policy, European History. Botany, Paheontology, Archaeo- 

 logy, and ancient forms of religion, bringing to each anil 

 all a thoroughness, accuracy, wealth of detail, and breadth 

 of criticism that was astonishing did we not know the extent 

 of his reading and the power of his memory. His active 

 brain was a complete bibliography of. a thousand subjects, 

 and at a moment^s notice he could give you chai)ter and 

 verse to which to refer in regard to any point at issue. No 

 man living could have produced two such diverse volumes 

 as ' Presidential Addresses and State Papers ' and ' Through 

 the Brazilian Wihlerness,^ and if we add to this his 

 experience as a soldier and exposition of his New Bible, 

 we can obtain some slight grasp of his mental and physical 

 activities. 



Amongst the successes of his life may be mentioned the 

 impetus he gave to the research for the elimination of 

 yellow fever in the Canal Zone, and what to naturalists 

 was a work of great importance was his continuous advo- 

 cacy of the preservation of the Fauna and Flora of the 

 North American continent. In this he certainly achieved 



