Excerpt from Sources of History: A Paper Read Before the German-American Historical Society of New York and the Pionier-Verein of Philadelphia Thus on all sides we find fragments of the valuable collections that still remain in Germany, and evi deuces of the value to students of that portion which Mr. Bancroft had gathered together, and the free use he gave to all who, like Mr. Bierstadt, made intelli gent additions to our stock of material for local history. In the pages of the Magazine of the His torical Society of Pennsylvania are numerous occa sioual contributions from German sources of value and interest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.