. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . an invalid. Anaccount of this was given in aseries of articles inthe KnickerbockerMagazine, w h i c hwere subsequentlycollected and pub-lished in book e afterward e n -gaged in literarywork almost exclu-sively, and notwith-standing hisim]iairedhealth, accomjianiedby partial blindness,has attained highrank as an historianand essayist. visitedFrance in 1858,1868,1872, 1880, and 1881,to examine Frencharchives in connec-tion with
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . an invalid. Anaccount of this was given in aseries of articles inthe KnickerbockerMagazine, w h i c hwere subsequentlycollected and pub-lished in book e afterward e n -gaged in literarywork almost exclu-sively, and notwith-standing hisim]iairedhealth, accomjianiedby partial blindness,has attained highrank as an historianand essayist. visitedFrance in 1858,1868,1872, 1880, and 1881,to examine Frencharchives in connec-tion with his histori-cal labors. In 1871-2he was professor ofhorticulture i n t h e agricultural school of Harvard. His chief work hasbeen a series of volumes intended to illustrate the riseand fall of the French power in America, which aredistinguished for brilliant style and accurate Parkman has recently completed the New Franceseries, covering the period between 1700 and , with a few additions to earlier volumes, completesthe series, which forms one continuous work. Hispublications are The California and Oregon Trail. FRANCIS PARKMAN (1849) ; The Conspiracy of Pontiac (Boston, 1S51) ;Pioneers of France in the New World (1865):The Book of Roses (1866); Jesuits in NorthAmerica (1867) ; La Salle and the Discovery of West (1869): The Old Regime in Canadaunder Louis XH. (1874); Count Frontenac andNew France under Louis XIV. (1877 ) ; Montcalm andWolfe {two volumes, 1884) ; The Arcadian Tragedy( Harpers Magazine, 1884) ; .A Half Century of Con-flict — France andEngland in (Boston,1892) ; HistoricHandbook of theNorthern Tour(Boston, 1885); O u r Co m m o nSchools (Boston,1890) ; Some ofthe Reasons againstW o m e n Suffrage;and several otherhistorical .AtlanticMonthly has re-ceived many inter-esting contributionsfrom his pen. Thehistoric handbook inthe enumerationabove was suggestedto Mr. Parkman byhis friend and co-worker of the Mass
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