History of the conquest of Peru / by Willilam H. Prescott.

  • William Hickling Prescott
Date:
1908
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    Blasco Nunez, who tried to carry these counsels of humanity into execution. The apparent inconsistency was commented on by D'Haussonville and explained partly by the delicacy of the subject as it appeared to Northern writers of America in those early days, partly by Prescott’s conservatively historical cast of mind. He is above all a raconteur des morqeaux historiques, and he needs an exceptional serenity of mind for this kind of art, which is apt to be ruined at once by the dust of conflict. The one striking fact that emerges is that, notwithstanding all the disintegrating forces that have been set to work by modern pressure upon the great upstanding monuments of history, Prescott’s Peru remains erect ; and for the most part, and, to a really surprising extent, unsuperseded. I believe I have heard it said that “we could have better spared a better book.” However that may be, there can, I think, be very little doubt that, with all its faults, The Conquest of Peru is a book to be reckoned with, now and in the future. Thomas Seccombe. Among more recent authorities on the subject, the following are available to English readers: O. von Hanstein, The World of the Incas (translated), 1924; P. A. Means, Ancient Civilization of the Andes, 1931; Fall of the Inca Empire, 1932; H. Bingham, Lost City of the Incas, 1951; R. J. Owens, Peru, 1963. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic, 3 vols., 1837-8; several later editions: new and revised edition, with the author’s latest corrections and additions, ed. J. F. Kirk, 1873, 1887, 1892; author’s authorized edition, 1882; another edition, 1890; History of the Conquest of Mexico, 3 vols., 1843, 1846, and later editions; new and revised edition, etc., ed. J. F. Kirk, 1874, I9°I (Bohn’s Standard Library, 1903); Critical and Historical Essays (chiefly from the North American Review), 1845; History of the Conquest of Peru, 2 vols., 1847, and later editions; new and revised edition, etc., ed. J. F. Kirk, 1874, I893, 1902 (Bohn’s Standard Library), 1959; author’s authorized version, 1882, and subsequent editions; Memoir of John Pickering, 1848; History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, vols. i, ii, 1855; tenth thousand, 1856; vol. iii (with Biographical and Critical Miscellanies), 1872; the 3 vols., 1873; new and revised editions, etc., ed. J. F. Kirk, 1887, 1902 (Bohn’s Standard Library); Memoir of the Honourable Abbott Lawrence, 1856; Account of the Emperor Charles V’s Life after his Abdication (addition to Robertson’s Charles the Fifth), 1857. works. Ed. by J. F. Kirk, illus., 15 vols., 1893; W. H. Munro, 22 vols. (with Ticknor’s Life), 1905, 1906. See lives by G. Ticknor, 1864; H. T. Peck, 1905; R. A. Humphreys, 1959.
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