ROOSEVELT'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 19961, 15 December 1913, Page 5

ROOSEVELT'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

" DELIBER-ATE DETERMINA-

TION" HIS SECRET

- AX INTERESTING BOOK

(Times —Sy<lnov San Special Cables.) NEW 'YORK, December 12. Mi*. Roosevelt's autobiography hs.s been published by Macmillan*s.

In his bbdk .Mi*. [Roc-ievelt claims that he. is not endowed with, any special aptitudes or excellencies, and says that whatever ho has attained is due to conscious effort and deliberate determination.

As a child he was sickly, delicate, nervous, timid and sliort-sighted. He deliberately set himself to overcome these disabilities. He developed a passionate lm^e of natural history? and an adoration cf fighting men. He forced himself to speak in public and trained himself in courage a:i<l self-control. Tho hook furnishes an interesting .study of tho gradual growth of his politico.! eonvictior.s. His public life w-xa

rlways tempestuous. Once he got his v.ay with a connnittee re*ai'dinsc a Bill ';cfr it> tho Now Ycrk Legislature <>> s^Ci'cti'ip; ;;■ chii^r-KI.^1.^ where ho could c-.sily roflo'i it. and producina; it when the committee' became unruly.

M,". Roosevelt draws ti terrible pictiirc of il:e corruption of public life" in tho United States, and says bribery, coercion, cowrmliec. falsehood 'and in-ofn-iecrcy lire nrernrnnt.

A. virid cliapter deals with the Spanish, v.ar and is accompanied by dociiinoiitarv evidence, province thp.t his iioroism at San Jnan Hill was not a

T]t. I'Dok is filled with brilliant stor-

Ie: rr\vini.' p.. porrr-r.-t idea of iiie extra'■fL'inary rar.go of the writer's versati]-