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Sign up for free Log in. New Edition. With a Frontispiece. Price 3s. Miss Sichel has treated a bewildering mass of material with rare judgment. To the achievement of such ends a study like the present one — a study of persons, not an ordered narration of events — makes no kind of pretension.
But history has its bye- paths and its lesser purposes, and one of the chief tasks of the minor historian is to read the books that no one has leisure for. It is customary to question the use of writing fresh works when so many have already been written. But we too frequently forget how many of these books are no books. There are unknown contemporary records, buried either in remote publications or between the dusty covers of incon- ceivably tedious tomes, which have to be gone through for the sake of the solitary paragraph, perhaps the solitary sentence, that may serve the occasion in view.
