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Nav 29.-Presiden' ,.,t's love for books and ar. ss'. s.holarly appreciation of oft, the is S.hors schu,rs and painters. to whom 0f autap,9 sanv of the 15o,ooo letters " he wrote during ms ,th paoi,. u in sta1 s is snU%s bis biographer, Josepf Oy yp;shon. m in the June issue 0; nnr,s m e'lag Magazine out here tom0r . and interesting missives ', psius U U those more sedate and crit, the the, aF,ae Roosevelt to Brander ; Mat l0hus 1oal 'I E. Spingarn, Booth Iark r; 'ppederick uSeri MacMonnies, Angus cst fiea' Gaudins, James Fore san. Tord Morley, M. Jusserand ( 5 ,t nSeo Scott Oliver, Arthur J: Bal TICK T, ,, .y o'Gs, Bordeaux, Charles Scrib' nd M Robert Bridges. .. rit;c ,a l.' of Roosevelt had writer r'51f Mister es protesting against 1,; the (ps characterization of Thomas s Il as "a dirty little atheist, de' a; $ was ~ an unpardonable le villi- ;, lo of "T Gone of the greatest mer U timeu m Mister forwarded the to ('I,[r MT Roosevelt, to which the responded:
 (Personal
 September 25, 1901.
 his is delightful. l ought tn Il,' have used the exact word I;st a He admitted the ex- bee n,s of an unknown God: but , ed uI there was a God of the stians. As to whether he dirty or not, it is a mere or of private judgment. l recording in the sentence the that he had stayed several in bed without getting out anv purpose, and that as a eonence a swine in a sty was ically clean by comparisen.'
 Faithfully yours.
 THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
 Owen Mister,
 B Chestnut Street,
 Philadelphia, Pa.
 colonel in another letter, SCOT lather sensational novel dealins be West and published in 1901 had grown to have "a horror reformer who is half charla d half fanatic, and who ruin! Fn cause by overstatement. hing his opposition to the en into the United States in 1908 Princess Kropotkin, he said e who call themselves anar no matter how they qualif, brd by calling themselves re s,' by just so much add to tn h of the worst and most vi dement's of our civilization" we always been grateful to yo1 nt-Gaudens for just existing, te to Frederick MacMonnies il for it is big asset on th' credit side that it should hav' I'd you both" To James Fort statement that Gin no quarre right all on one side, and tn all on the other" he took ex in these words: "I fully be and appreciate not only tn f the South, but it's lofty de b the right as it saw the right I think that on every groun is, on the question of tn on the question of slavery, 0 estion of state rights-it wa with a folly that amounted t s, and with a perversity tha ted to wickedness."
 of the most interesting of tn was one written by the colo 1908, before the panic of tn Pfore had subsided. When tn began in New York vigorou it is said, were made to hay elt, then president, call off h; Iainst the Standard Oil con Rnd an investigation of tF an railway lines, which he ha In spite of the strenuol |ersy concerning these and otl |tions of public policy, the co und time to write a long an letter to MT. Balfour, reviev ook called "Decadence" whic Fn causing a stir in the lite1 Id. In this letter he said:
 not see how any thinking ma
 to feel now and then ugl as to what may befall or civilization-the civilizatio white race, who have sprea fluence over the entire worl ne culture they have inherite lred in extreme Western Asi Europe during the last thre thousaid years The intr, an alien race into another ci- Its growth and supremat lg away, is of course curious, ied by what we see in the an fld, and the pallel is compile East one point-that is in u at in such cases the caus,
 shrouded in absolute dar