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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: &quot;Four As pects of Civic Duty&quot; (1906), &quot;Political Issues and Outlooks&quot; (1909), &quot;Present-day Problems&quot; (1908), &quot;Presidential Addresses and State Papers, from March 4, 1909, to March, 1910&quot; (1910), and &quot;Popular Government, Its Essence, Permanence and Perils&quot; (1913). Several biographies of him have been written, including R. L. Dunn s &quot;Wil liam Howard Taft, American&quot; (1908), and O. K. Davis s &quot;William Howard Taft, The Man of the Hour&quot; (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.