245-264;
as a prime minister, 241, 263;
righteousness of acceptance of election, 245;
difficulty of situation, 245, 261;
as governor, 246;
letter of acceptance, 246;
inaugural, 246;
cabinet, 246-248, 262;
withdrawal of troops from South, 248, 249;
and Congress, 249, 256, 257, 261;
civil service reforms, contest with Conkling, 250, 254-257;
honorary degree from Harvard, 251;
and railroad riots, 253, 254;
and finances, independent thinking, 257-260;
vetoes of repeal of Federal election laws, 260;
extra sessions of Congress, 261;
serenity, 261;
popular support, 261;
and election of 1880, 261;
moral tone of administration, 262;
and Cleveland, 263.

Herodotus, on purpose of history, 2;
rank as historian, 5, 34, 40;
as contemporary historian, 17.

Higginson, T. W., on Bancroft, 294.

Hildreth, Richard, historical value of newspaper articles, 31.

Hill, G. B., on Gibbon's history and autobiography, 125.

Historian, training, 49-79;
necessary linguistic knowledge, 49-52;
acquisition of style, 52-55;
knowledge of mathematics, 55-57;
of other sciences, 57-59;
of fine arts, 59;
general historical reading, 60-70;
mastery of Gibbon and Bryce, 60;
of Tacitus and Thucydides, 61;
of other historians, 62-64;
knowledge of lives of historians, 64;
desultory reading, 64-65;
study of human character, experimental and through books, 66-68;
thorough reading of characteristic works, 68;
speed and retention of reading, 69;
importance of "Conversations of Goethe," 70-72;
of Sainte-Beuve's criticisms, 72;
choice of subject, 74;
method, originality, 75;
note-making, 76;
Carlyle on method, 77;
remuneration, 77;
and teaching of history, 78;
and business training, 78.
_See also_ next two titles.

Historians, Shakespeare and Homer as, 1, 2, 7;
advantages and disadvantages of present-day, 4, 20;
best, 5, 11;
Herodotus, 5, 17, 34, 40;
Thucydides, 6-8, 11-15, 17-19, 35, 61, 110, 111, 128;
Tacitus, 8-10, 15, 17-20, 61, 110, 111, 116, 128;
Gibbon, 10, 60, 107-140;
conciseness, 11, 14, 16, 20, 36;
source material, 12-16, 20, 22;
contemporaneousness, 17-20;
necessary qualities, 20;
monographs, 22;
patriotism, 22;
necessity and kinds of originality, 27-29, 75;
use of newspapers