The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-07-03

brought under discipline. Woodrow
Wilson was faithful servant OF let
ters until the presidency OF the univer-
sity 50 occupied his time as to give
aim only brief ana broken hours for
writing.
Since 1885. the date o. the produc-
t1on OF Congress ional Government
ne has published the following books:
ne state CISCO, division and Re-
union Gs93). An Old Master and
Oinet Political Essays" GS93), Mere
Literature ana other Essays" GSe6).
George Washington" Gs9s). ~ HIS
tory - the American People Gave vol
uhes: 1922. constitutional Govern
meat ~ the United states Ge0S). Be-
s'de5 these. there are many uncollect
ca essays anu addresses. published IN
InaBazines, reviews and brochures.
ia an essay entitled The Truth Of
the Matter published in the volume
called Mere Literature'D. Woodrow
wilson set forth clearly his concep-
ZION OF the historians business. For
dry-as-dust the mere Investigator. he
mad Just that respect which all have
ior Industry as Z separate virtue. on
inc other hand. lie calls those his
to!lans shallow fellows" who seek
the dramatic" tor its own sake. II
is Imagination. not that which invents
put that which perceivcs the under
wing truth Of things which the his
torian needs. 10 lindle his facts into
life. to give the picture as i whole.
10 see the past as one who knew the
past
The value OF his historical method
and its application must be decided at
later time But ne VINO reads the
histories knows that DR. Wilson'S
books recover 4 past age. make dead
generations live again and breathe
heir own air. His sympathetic re-
creative method is seen in its simplest
torn in such passages OF the life OF
washington IS describe Colonial Ike
In virginia. or the last days and death
OF the great general When the au
tnor's father read the quiet words that
describe with the calm of suppressed
feeling tho death OF Washington. he
sara woodrow, am glad YOU let
George Washington do his own dying"
The deeper-ly.ng effects OF this PEN
etrat!ve. imaginative method OF deal
ins with history may be seen in his
DIVISION and Reunion and his large
"History OF the American People In
these imagination and reason sit to-
getner. sympathy and Judgment con-
troll each other In such contrast as
he draws IN the larger work between
the democracy OF Thomas Jefferson
md General Jackson We see the
F.
the right estimate Of the temper Of
the people. the delicate separation OF
snpersrowth and ;issue-things tenn
porary and things destined to shape
the nation. In both works. the story
Of the war and tne events which led
10 II make very human story and
an extraordinarily just estimate OF
mon. motives and principles. In The
/ Truth OF the Matter he wrote o:
MaCaIlay. We detect the tone OF rho
advocate. and though II we are 'us,
we must deem him honest. we cannot
deem him safe" 1t IS not the advocate
but the Judge who wrote the accounts
OF the War Between the States in the
two histories, a d'spassionate but not
Z u 'slnterested Judge. one with power
to understand those motives OF men
which create epochs. TO understand
them as II he had lived with these
men OF both sides: ne secs in them
sonndness and frailty, faith and un-
faith. touches OF charlatanry and