. The great American book of biography . ^ was not published until1874. It comes down only to the close of the Revolution. The intense patriot-ism of the author is manifest in nearly every page, and the work has beencriticised as a Fourth-of-July oration in ten volumes. This fault, however, ifit be a fault, is easy for Americans to forgive, and the work is generallyregarded as the standard history of America up to the time of the Constitution. 66o RALPH WALDO EMERSON. Mr. Bancroft was an orator as well as a historian and politician, one of thebest-known of his addresses being the famous
. The great American book of biography . ^ was not published until1874. It comes down only to the close of the Revolution. The intense patriot-ism of the author is manifest in nearly every page, and the work has beencriticised as a Fourth-of-July oration in ten volumes. This fault, however, ifit be a fault, is easy for Americans to forgive, and the work is generallyregarded as the standard history of America up to the time of the Constitution. 66o RALPH WALDO EMERSON. Mr. Bancroft was an orator as well as a historian and politician, one of thebest-known of his addresses being the famous oration on Lincoln, deliveredbefore Congress in 1866. During the latter part of his life he had a winterhome in Washington, where the national archives and the Library of Congresswere always at his hand, and a summer home at Newport, where he had a won-derful garden of roses, which was a great attraction. Rose-growing and horse-back riding were his recreations, and the erect and striking form of the historian,with his long gray beard, mounted on a fine horse, was for years a familiarfigure at Newport and on the streets of Washington. RALPH W^ALDO EMERSON, THE CONCORD PHILOSOPHER AND POET. (5« portrait, p. 6^2.)
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