CONTENTS
Harry Thurston Peck
CHAPTER I
PAGE
The New England Historians
1
CHAPTER II
Early Years
13
CHAPTER III
The Choice of a Career
39
CHAPTER IV
Success
54
CHAPTER V
In Mid Career
72
CHAPTER VI
The Last Ten Years
99
CHAPTER VII
"Ferdinand and Isabella"—Prescott's Style
121
CHAPTER VIII
"The Conquest of Mexico" as Literature and as History
133
CHAPTER IX
"The Conquest of Peru"—"Philip II."
160
CHAPTER X
Prescott's Rank as an Historian
173
Index
181
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