. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . W^^^^^^^^^^^^^^W^^^^^^^^^^^^^W^^^W^^^ GEORGE BANCROFT. it THE MOST FAMOUS AMERICAN HE chief historians who have added kistre to American literature dur-ing the nineteenth century are Bancroft, Prescott, Motley, Parkman,McMaster and John Fiske ; and, when we add to these James Par-ton, the American biographer, we present an array of talent andscholarship on which any nation might look with patriotic have been excelled by the historians of no other nation of ourtime, if, indeed—tak
. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . W^^^^^^^^^^^^^^W^^^^^^^^^^^^^W^^^W^^^ GEORGE BANCROFT. it THE MOST FAMOUS AMERICAN HE chief historians who have added kistre to American literature dur-ing the nineteenth century are Bancroft, Prescott, Motley, Parkman,McMaster and John Fiske ; and, when we add to these James Par-ton, the American biographer, we present an array of talent andscholarship on which any nation might look with patriotic have been excelled by the historians of no other nation of ourtime, if, indeed—taken from a national standpoint—they have not produced the besthistorical literature of the present century. Tliough Prescott is the oldest, George Bancroft, in the estimation of the greatmajority, stands fiist, perhaps, among all the American historians. This eminentwriter was born at Worcester, Massachusetts, in October, 1800, the same month andyear in which Macauley, the great English historian, first saw the light, and,—afterliving one of the most laborious public and literary lives in the history of the world,—died at the ripe old age of ninety-one years (1891). His fat
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