Excerpt from The Catholic World, Vol. 91: A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science; April, 1910, to September, 1910 For two of the features attached to writing history by this method, Mr. Belloc considers that an apology is needed. In the first place you have to make the physical environment of your figure reappear; in other words, you must write, more or less, as an eye-witness, a somewhat perilous proceeding; and, second, you must admit laborious and dusty discussion, not only of disputed events, but of the inner working of a mind. This two-fold endeavor may result in inartistic incongruity, but it brings you as near as may be to the truth. 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.