Excerpt from The Presbyterian Quarterly, Vol. 3: January, April, July, October, 1889 Tnn'materials of history'may'be classed under four heads for mnemonic purposes, under four monosyllabic words: who, what, where, and When. Who: the names ofthe prominent ac tors in all the scenes of the thrilling drama, as Adam, Noah, Abra ham, Moses and Pharoah, David and the giant of Gath, Christ. And Pilate, the Christian martyrs and the Roman Emperors, Atha nasias and Arius, Augustine and Pelagius. What: what has been. Done; all the covenants, human and divine; all the religious rites and ceremonies; all the events of history. Where: embracmg all of ancient and modern geography. When: the entire subject of chronology. 'but all this is not history, any more than the stones and timbers scattered along the river banks are the bridge; any more than the ten Arabic characters, unarranged, give the dis tances of the planets and the stars; any more than the twenty-six characters of the English alphabet are Paradise Lost. What are thecolors without the design of the painting? What are the trappings of the stage and the costumes and names of the actors to. One who understands not the plot? Even so, the abstract ma terials of history may be as unmeaning as the scattered leaves of the Sibyl. History, therefore, is something more than names, and facts, and places, and dates. 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.