"A man who could do so much could not do everything per fectly, though few have ever done so many things so well," wrote his friend Albert Bushnell Hart (Encyclopedia Britannica, 12th edition). "It was more true of him than of most men that his defects were inherent in his virtues. There were few half-tones in Roosevelt's moral perceptions and fewer in his vocabulary; he saw things as either black or white, and he forgot sometimes that he had not previously seen them as he saw them at the mo ment. . . . The very intensity of his convictions sometimes blinded him to the sincerity and even to the justice of other points of view. Nevertheless, this intensity, this moral fervour, gave his ideas a momentum and a success which they could never have acquired had they proceeded from a more judicial mind. He scorned 'weasel words,' and on occasion he did not hesitate to describe his enemies as thieves and liars. His remarkable energy reminded observers of some great elemental force which, like any natural phenomenon, is controlled by its own necessary laws." Writings.—Theodore Roosevelt's published works, including books, pamphlets, addresses, campaign speeches, contributions to the books of others, translations and periodical articles, number between two and three thousand titles and date from 1877 to his death. He wrote during his life not less than 150,000 letters, most of which are included with the Roosevelt papers in the Library of Congress in Washington. More has been written about him than about any other Amu:jean. There have been many collections of Roosevelt's works, the latest and best being the Memorial edition, 24 vol. (1923-26) ; and the National edition, 20 vol. (1926).
Roosevelt's principal works are: Naval War of 1812 (1882) ; Hunting Trips of a Ranchman (1885) ; Thomas Hart Benton (1887); Gouverneur Morris ; Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail (1888) ; Winning of the West, 4 vol. ; New York (1891) ; Wilderness Hunter (1893) ; Hero Tales from American History (with Henry Cabot Lodge) (1895) ; American Ideals ; Rough Riders (1899) ; Oliver Cromwell (1900) ; Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter (1905) ; African and European Addresses (I 910) ; African Game Trails (1910) ; New Nation alism (1910) ; Realizable Ideals History as Literature (1913); Progressive Principles (1913); Autobiography (1913); Through the Brazilian Wilderness (1914); Life Histories of Afri can Game Animals (with Edmund Heller) 2 vol. (1914) ; America
and the World War (1915) ; Book-lover's Holidays in the Open (1916) ; Fear God and Take Your Own Part (1916) ; Foes of our Own Household (1917); Great Adventure (1918) ; Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to his Children (1919); Theodore Roosevelt and his Time Shown in his Own Letters, Ed. by J. B. Bishop, 2 vol. (1920) ; Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star (1921) ; Letters to Anna Roosevelt Cowles (1924) ; Selections from Correspond ence of Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge (1925).
Abbott, Impressions of Theodore Roosevelt (1920) ; Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, My Brother Theodore Roosevelt (1921) ; H. A. Beers, Four Americans (1920) ; Joseph Bucklin Bishop, Theodore Roosevelt and His Times (5920) ; Archie, Butt, Letters (1924) ; Lord Charnwood, Theo dore Roosevelt (1924) ; Tyler Dennett, Roosevelt and the Russo-Jap anese War (1925) ; Bradley Gilman, Roosevelt the Happy Warrior (1921) ; H. F. Gosnell, Boss Platt and His New York Machine (1924) ; William Hard, Theodore Roosevelt: a Tribute (1919) ; Henry L. Stod dard, As I Knew Them—from Grant to Coolidge (1927) ; W. D. Lewis, Life of Roosevelt (1919) ; J. F. Rhodes, McKinley and Roosevelt Administrations (1922) ; Kermit Roosevelt, Happy Hunting Grounds (192o) ; Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Average Americans (1919) ; Albert Shaw, Cartoon History of Roosevelt's Career (Iwo) ; Julian Street, The Most Interesting American (1920'; Mark Sullivan, Our Times (1926-28) ; F. S. Wood, Roosevelt as We Knew Him (1927) ; C. B. Whittlesey, Roosevelt Genealogy (1902) ; J. E. Amos, Theodore Roose velt, a Hero to His Valet (1927) ; Hermann Hagedorn, Boy's Life of Roosevelt (1918), and Roosevelt in the Bad Lands (1921) ; 0. K. Davis, Released for Publication (1924) ; H. F. Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt. A Biography (1931). For fuller record of Roosevelt's writ ings see R. W. G. Vail, Roosevelt Bibliography (1929). (H. HAG.)