Francis Parkman
Boston:
Little, Brown, and Company.
1896.
Copyright, 1896,
by Little, Brown, and Co.
University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U. S. A.
[Francis Parkman.]
"One of the convincing tests of genius is the choice of a theme, and no greater felicity can befall it than to find one both familiar and fresh. All the better if tradition, however attenuated, have made it already friendly with our fancy. In the instinct that led him straight to subjects that seemed waiting for him so long, Mr. Parkman gave no uncertain proof of his fitness for an adequate treatment of them."—James Russell Lowell.