...his own mind. He saw the actors and put fitting language in their mouths. On this point, he says : "Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far...however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. He must himself be, as it were, a sharer or spectator of the men he describes." He caught the spirit...

...minutest details of narrative or description rest on authentic documents or on personal observation. Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far...narrative, taken as a whole, may be unmeaning or untrue. The narrator must seek to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time. He must study events...

...animate them with the life of the past, and, so far as might be, clothe the skeleton with flesh. . . . Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far...narrative, taken as a whole, may be unmeaning or untrue. The narrator must seek to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time. He must study events...

...animate them with the life of the past, and, so far as might be, clothe the skeleton with flt:sh. . . . Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far...narrative, taken as a whole, may be unmeaning or untrue. The narrator must seek to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time. He must study events...

...atmosphere of the times he described. " Faithfulness to the truth of history," as he justly observed, "involves far more than a research, however patient...may be detailed with the most minute exactness, and still 10 HISTORICAL BRIEFS. the narrative, taken as a whole, may be unmeaning or untrue. The narrator...

...was his delight, and his books fairly reek with the fragrance of pine woods. But except for Parkman's inborn temperament all his microscopic industry would...the narrative, taken as a whole, may be unmeaning." These are words which the mere Dryasdust can never comprehend ; yet they are golden words for the student...

...was his delight, and his books fairly reek with the fragrance of pine woods. But except for Parkman's inborn temperament all his microscopic industry would...the narrative, taken as a whole, may be unmeaning." These are words which the mere Dryasdust can never comprehend; yet they are golden words for the student...

...heart to dissolve the spell, and remains a wanderer and an Ishmaelite to the hour of his death." 1 No one can doubt that the man who could write like...make a truthful record of a vanished age, patient 1 Pontiac, iii. chap, xxvli. scholarship is needed, and something more. Into the making of a historian...

...without abusing his fancy. " Faithfulness to the truth of history," he says, " involves far more than research, however patient and scrupulous, into special...narrative, taken as a whole, may be unmeaning or untrue. The narrator must seek to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time. He must study events...

...Identification with his theme. The general spirit in which he worked is clearly set forth in these golden words : "Faithfulness to the truth of history involves...narrative, taken as a whole, may be unmeaning or untrue. The narrator must seek to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time. He must study events...