Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-12-31
THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S
LETTERS to His CHILDREN
Edited BY JOSEPH UCKLIN BISHOP
Copyright 1919 BY Charles Saibssrs SoaD
Edited By JOSEPH BUCKLIN BISHOP
Copyright 1919 BY Charles serib.sr's sons

he have strained relations, but have
yet come to open hostility.
White House, Jan. 81, 1908.
Dear Archie:
Scamp Is really a cunning little
dog, but he takes such an extremely
keen interest in hunting, and is SO j
active, that when he is out on the I
grounds with us we merely catch
ghmpSes of him as he flashes by. The
other night after the judicial recep-
ton when we went upstairs to sup
per the kitchen cat suddenly appear
cd parading down the hall with great
friendliness, and was forthwith exil-
ed TO her proper home again.
Tom Pinch.
White House, Feb. Is, 1908.
DEAREST KERMIT:
/ quite agree with you about Tom
Pinch. He is a d~espicable kind OF
character; just the kind OF Character
Dlcken liked, because he had him-
self a thick streak of maudlin senti-
mentality of the kind that, as soma-
body phrased 1t, made him wallow
naked in the pathetic 1t always
interests me about Dickens to think
how much irst-class work he did and
now almost all of 1t was mixed uS
with every III of cheap, second-rate
matter. l am very fond of him. There
are innumerable characters that he
has created which symbolic vices,
virtues, ~follies, and the like almost
as we'll as the characters in Bunyan;
n therefore l think the wise thing
TO do is simply to skip the bosh and
twaddle and Vulgarity and untruth,
and get the benefit out of the rest.
Or course one fundamental differences
between Thackeray and Dickens 10
that T~hackeray was a gentleman and
Dlcken was not. But a mar might
do some mighty good work and not
be a gentleman in any sense.
MARTIN ChuzzIewit.r
White House, Feb. 20, 1gWN
DEAREST KERMIT:
OF course l entirely agree with
about Martin Chuzzlewit" But
point seems to me that the prepost
Gus perversion of truth and the
nature and malice of the book are
consequence chiefly as indicat
Dickens W character, about VIII
| care not a rap; whereas, the char
tiers in American shortcomings
vices and follies as typi1ed are
mortal and. moreover, can be stud
with great profit by all of us tod
Dickens was an ill-natured selfish
and boor, who had no understand
OF what the word gentleman mea
and no appreciation of hospitality
good treatment. He was utterly
N~f"pA0 L oSSlib the nigh puIPA
and the real greatness which Gin SIP
of the presence also of much tn
was bad or vile) could have been vk
bic all around him here in Amerit
to any man whose vision was boz
keen and lofty. He could not see II
qualities of the young men GROWN
up here, though 1t was these quai
ties tina tenabled these men to c.
quer the west and to fight to a fiji
the great Civil War, and though Il
wree to produce leadership like 4
of Lincoln, Lee and Grant. Natu
" he would think there was no
tleman in New York, because by
possibility ould he have recogni
a gentleman II he had met one. \
urally he would condemn all An
lea because he had not the soul to !
what Americt was really doing.
he was in his element In descriR
with bitter truthfulness Scadder ano
Jefferson Brick, n Elijah Pogram
and Hannibal Chollup and Mrs. Hon.
my and the various other characters
great and small, that have alwayf
made me enjoy Martin Chuzzlewit.,
J Most of these characters we sun
with us.