Thinly veiled as fiction, this is actual autobiography, and revolves itself into a course in current events and peoples of the early 1900's, background for a Michigan editor and his family. Various prominent figures of the times -- McKinley, Roosevelt, Uncle Jor Cannon, Bryan, Jane Addams, Sarah Bernhardt, Joe Jefferson, Ty Cobb, Robert Ingersoll, Mark Twain, Tom Thumb, Henry Ford, Carnegie, and so on and on. Consciously naive, it yet has moments of humor and charm, and gives an entertaining picture of the period,