VIII 

 FRANCIS PARKMAN 1 



IN the summer of 1865 I had occasion almost 

 daily to pass by the pleasant windows of Little, 

 Brown & Co., in Boston, and it was not an easy 

 thing to do without stopping for a moment to look 

 in upon their ample treasures. Among the fresh- 

 est novelties there displayed were to be seen Lord 

 Derby's translation of the Iliad, Forsyth's Life 

 of Cicero, Colonel Higginson's Epictetus, a new 

 edition of Edmund Burke' s writings, and the taste- 

 ful reprint of Froude's History of England, just 

 in from the Riverside Press. One day, in the 

 midst of such time-honoured classics and new books 

 on well-worn themes, there appeared a stranger 

 that claimed attention and aroused curiosity. It 

 was a modest crown octavo, clad in sombre garb, 

 and bearing the title " Pioneers of France in the 



1 This paper originated in an address at Sanders Theatre, Cam- 

 bridge, December 6, 1893, at a service commemorative of Mr. 

 Parkman. In its present greatly expanded shape it was printed 

 as the Introduction to the revised edition of Parkman's Works, 

 Boston, 1897-98, 20 vols., octavo. 



