ILLUSTRATIONSTheodore Roosevelt with his little granddaughter, Edith Roosevelt Derby, 1918FrontispieceFACING PAGETheodore Roosevelt, Sr., aged thirty, 18628Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, twenty-two years old, about 18568Theodore Roosevelt, about eighteen months old, 186018Theodore Roosevelt, about four years old, 186218Elliott Roosevelt, aged five and a half years, about 186532Corinne Roosevelt, about four years old, 186532Theodore Roosevelt, aged seven, 186532Corinne Roosevelt, 1869, at seven and a half years46Theodore Roosevelt at ten years of age46Anna Roosevelt at the age of fifteen when she spoke of herself as one of the “three older ones”46The Dresden Literary American Club—Motto, “W. A. N. A.” (“We Are No Asses”)72Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, September 21, 187592Theodore Roosevelt, December, 1876, aged eighteen92Portrait taken in Chicago, July, 1880, on the way to the hunting trip of that season114We had that lovely dinner on the portico at the back of the White House looking toward the Washington Monument230A review of New York’s drafted men before going into training in September, 1917332