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The style is flowing and elegant , graceful but free from super- 

 fluous ornament, and he can narrate facts in a plain, straight- 

 forward manner which induces a confidence in the truth of his 

 statement and the accuracy of his knowledge. 



He introduces with extreme felicity quotations from not 



