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WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT 193 the president, who felt that he had done only his duty in refusing his sanction to a fatal heresy, no matter what might come later. Mr. Taft s published volumes are: "Four As pects of Civic Duty" (1906), "Political Issues and Outlooks" (1909), "Present-day Problems" (1908), "Presidential Addresses and State Papers, from March 4, 1909, to March, 1910" (1910), and "Popular Government, Its Essence, Permanence and Perils" (1913). Several biographies of him have been written, including R. L. Dunn s "Wil liam Howard Taft, American" (1908), and O. K. Davis s "William Howard Taft, The Man of the Hour" (1908). William H. Taft married, in 1886, Miss Helen Herron, daughter of John W. Herron, a promi nent citizen and lawyer of Cincinnati. They have three children: Robert Alphonso, Helen Herron, and Charles Phelps. The elder son was graduated from Harvard Law School in July, 1913, with the highest honors ever obtained there ; the younger son was named for his father s half-brother, a leading newspaper editor in Cincinnati. In religious faith the Tafts are Unitarians.