A handsome, upstanding young red oak of 20 summers. (P. 8.) "High social prestige," "an exclusive atmosphere." (P. 17.) A veritable Lionel Strongfort. (P. Winter 1924-5 Around the World: On the Red Star liner Belgenland, To the Mediterranean: Masterfully arranged voyages includ ing in their scope Madeira, Gibraltar, Algeciras, Algiers, Monaco, Naples, Athens, Constantinople, Haifa (for Holy Land) Alexandria (for Egypt and the Nile). Duration 47 days. Local bookings and stop-overs permitted. White Star liner Adriatic Jan. 7, returning Feb. 22; and Feb. 26, returning April 13; Red Star liner Lapland Jan. 17, returning March 4; and March 8, returning April 23. To the West Indies: Over 25 years' specialized experience For information regarding any of these cruises WHITE STAR LINE 31 The Letters of Archie Butt N these pages the reader finds himself living again the days when Theodore Roosevelt's towering personality directed the affairs of the nation. Through the observing eyes of Butt, the great, magnetic, many-sided Roosevelt is revealed in a new light. One reads of his personal habits, his mannerisms, foibles, virtues, his private opinions as to many of his contemporaries, his relationship to the members of the famous "Tennis Cabinet," his never-ending attempts to elude the secret service guards, his entertainment of educators, prize fighters, diplomats, big-game hunters, political leaders and jiu-jitsu instructors. One is transported into the midst of the Roosevelt family life at Oyster Bay and into the very center not only of the official but of the more intimate social life of Washington. Dying, as he had lived, a gentleman and a soldier, Major Butt was last seen on the ill-fated Titanic, with coat stripped off, standing beside the life boats when the rush for them had begun in the last moments of frenzy. With a revolver in one hand and a belaying pin in the other, he stood ready to strike down or shoot the first man who would attempt to dispute that established law of the sea-"Women and children first!" His Letters are a real heritage to his country. |