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 names of our noted historians that of Bacon's book were written during a 

 Jared bijarks is not always mentioned, -j -mi ^ 1 



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 em school of investigators who go to °^ ^^^ schools for noble girls under 

 the original sources and write at first- the management of the Imperial 

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 the Southern States in search of docu- timate in character, being chronicles 

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lution was told by the actors in it; he °^ '''"'*''*' ^^'^ impressions imparted in 

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 in the English State Paper Office, and *^^^*^ ^^ home, and having throughout 

 in the French pubhc record offices; ^^"'^ conversational atmosphere which, 

 wherever he learned that letters or ^'^^^^ wholly destructive of what is 

 journals of Washington or Franklin or called '-style," is a charming medium 

 their great associates were to be found, through which to view pictures of 

 there he bent his assiduous way and every-day life and character. The 

 spent laborious days, copying or ex- author frankly confesses that they re- 

 tracting. Professor Adams, vho is semble the product of a photographic 

 thoroughly qualified from his ■ ork as camera rather than that of an artist's 

 a professor of history to do ju,.tice to Inrush, and, having so said, she puts 

 Sparks, thus states his claims to grate- "^ 1^"*® ** °"^' '^^^^ '^^^ carries us 

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 vast wilderness of American 'history. ™uch from the fact that her Anclicized 

 He first opened roads along which Japanese was about as imperfect as 

 modern students are now easily and ^^^ Japanicized English of those about 

 swiftly passing, too often without a ^®^- T™®' Jiowever, meliorated this 

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