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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A CHARMING STORY-TELLER. 159 Another writer, 1 regret to sa)', superficial and dishonest, improving on his predecessors of the first category, torturing documents already tortured and mutilated, taking no account of the judicial temper that ought to accompany the true historian, has tried his hand at every Mud of subterfuge to justify what is unjustifiable. I allude, of course, to Parkman. To be frank, I believe him to be, of all writers I am acquainted with, the most subtilely one-sided, the most expert in the art of deception. His work is the first I read on the subject I am now handling, and I confess, in all humility, that he deceived me; for a long time I believed in his sincerity and took his part against those who attacked him. It was only when I went on to consult official sources and then to compare his methods, that I became firmly convinced what a thorough imposture his work is. He has reduced historical trickery to a fine art, which presents a curious, though not difficult study, of the use of language to conceal one's thoughts. By temperament he stands midway between the historian and the novelist. He lacks the exquisite delicacy of the latter, the kindness, lofty character and love of truth necessary for the former. Not wishing to remain a mere story-teller, he preferred to rise to the level of history, for which he was in no way adapted, as he possessed none of the essential requisites of the historian. His brilliant qualities as a narrator were, however, of great assistance for transient success, and he used and misused them to the utmost. To interest and charm was his principal object, and he pursued it most successfully; on this score his merits are as great as they are unchallenged. But this exclusive quest obliged him to skip the arid tracts of history ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217673754
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 112
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217673759
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 213 gr

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