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use and from contact with the contents of his sad¬ 
dle-bags. Whenever he went on a hunt he carried 
one or more of these little volumes, which he would 
take out and read from time to time when there was 
nothing else to do. He never seemed to waste a 
moment. 
His pride in the library was evident, and the 
fondness with which he brought forth the hooks 
was the fondness of an honest enthusiast. 
“Some people don’t consider Longfellow a great 
poet, but I do,” he said, as he showed a little vol¬ 
ume of the poet’s works. “Lowell is represented 
here, but I think, toward the end of his life, he 
became too much Bostonian. The best American,” 
he said later, “is a Bostonian who has lived ten 
years west of the Mississippi.” 
He then showed us his work-box, a compact lea¬ 
ther case containing pads of paper, pens, lead 
pencils, and other requirements of the writer. I 
did not see a type-writing machine such as we car¬ 
toonists have so often represented in our cartoons 
of Mr. Roosevelt in Africa. But, then, cartoonists 
are not always strictly accurate. 
Later on he spoke of the lectures he was to de¬ 
liver in Berlin, at the Sorbonne in Paris, and in 
Oxford the following spring. I told him how sur¬ 
prised I had been to hear that he had prepared these 
lectures during the rush of the last few weeks of his 
administration. He said that he probably would he 
regarded as a representative American in those 
lectures and that he wanted to do them just as well 
