Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897, Maclean, John, 1851-1928, association, MacLean, Harrison John (autograph) · Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Co. · leaf 455
d truth toeffect, and to a style which he calls • magnificent, and to a philosophic flow of thought, — the latter traitin Prescott being one of his weakest; nf)r is his style what rhetoricians would call magnificent. » Mr. R. A. Wilson makes more of it than is warranted, in affirming that Prescotts… … WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT. them as a literary field, generously abandonedhis pursuit to the new and rising historian.- The Conquest of Mexico appeared in 1843,^ ^^^ ^■^long remained a charming book, as fruitful in 1 This cut follows an engraving in mezzotint in the Eclectic Magazine (1858), and shows him…
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