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But if literary history means Tacitus and Gibbon, it is the highest and the true form of history. If “literary history” means Lamartine’s History of the Girondists, it is a sneaking form of the historical novel. But the history which has no quality of literature at all, neither power of expression nor imaginative insight, is nothing but materials, the bricks and stones out of which some one one day might build a house. History in which the narrative of events is made subservient to literary effect is an impudent swindle. I won’t believe that literary history is quite done yet.’ ‘ Literary history! ’ laughed Wessex, who had recovered his good humour ‘ why not say melodious science!- delicious philosophy!-graceful law! or any other paradoxical confusion of metaphors? “ Literary history” is a contradiction in terms, is it not, Middleman? ’ Well,’ said the lawyer, who was great at Nisi priiis, ‘let us know what we mean by literary history.
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‘I have been sticking up for Froude’s pictures of Henry vm., Elizabeth and Mary of Scots, the Reformation and the Armada. But there is a good deal to be said for the other method of work.’ ‘Just so,’ said Phil, much relieved. You can tell him what Freeman was, for you used to be one of his ardent admirers and closest henchmen.’ ‘Yes, indeed,’ said Middleman ‘he was a noble scholar, and I read and re-read every line he wrote. ‘he is attending the lectures of the Regius Professor of History, and I am trying to show him the difference between the late Professor and the present. ‘ Our new scholar, Raleigh,’ said Wessex, introducing Phil to the Q.C. The Courts were not sitting, and he had run up to see some of the residents. Though he had been twelve years in good practice, he kept up. Jack Middleman, Q.C., was a young lawyer of much promise he was already in Parliament and had expectations of office when Lord Salisbury returns to power. Dear old man, what luck for me to meet you,’ said the newcomer genially ‘I am going to examine in the Law School, and have run up for a couple of days to consult about the papers. ‘ But here, bless me! ’ he cried, ‘comes Middleman, of the House what brings him to Oxford just now, I wonder.’ And indeed, the tutor was not at all sorry that the conversation with his young friend should be suddenly broken off. Anonymous personalities ‘ I am sure we need not mind all these anonymous personalities,’ said the Venerable one somewhat stiffly, for he felt that the last Quarterly article was rather a nasty hit and as yet he had not the remotest idea how it ought to be answered.
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Cried Phil with spirit ‘ Come, now,’ cried Phil with spirit, for he felt that his turn had come, ‘you may talk about the Saturday articles, which are ancient history in the bad sense of the term, but what do you say to the Quarterly articles, and the palpable blunders it exposes? What about Wace’s “palisades” at Hastings? And why didn’t Freeman cite, the Abbd Baudri? And why did he misquote the Survey over and over again? And why are we not to use the fine old English term, “ Battle of Hastings ” the only name given in the Tapestry, Guy of Amiens, and the rest - and are told we must always use, if we value truth, the term, “Battle of Senlac” - a mere mythical phrase - a piece of affectation of “dear old Orderic ” in his Norman monastery? Why, years ago a man in the Nineteenth Century pointed out that to talk nowadays of the Battle of Senlac was as absurd as if a Frenchman were now to try to rechristen the Battle of Waterloo the Battle of Hougoumont! What do you say to the Quarterly on the Norman Conquest? ’ asked Phil impetuously daily sofia tour, for he felt that he had got his knife into the Bede.