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1842 or 1843, 68 ; not in danger of be- ing ceded to England, 78-79 ; public opinion on, in 1842-43, ibid.', public not ignorant of, 84-85.

Oregon Trail, TAe, Parknian's, 281,282.

Outlook, The, 52.

Palmer, Joel, his account of Whitman in 1845, 18.

Parker, H. W., 18 n., 54 n.

Parker, S., 3, 85.

Parkman, F., early life and tastes, 289 ; his preparation, 280-282; ill-health, 282-283 ; his aim as an historian, 284; characteristics, 285-286; his works, 282-287 ; his fame abroad, 286-287; permanence of his fame, 287.

Pattison, M., 266 n.

Payne, E. J., 223.

Penrose, President, relies on J. R. Wil- son's mistranslation of Saint- Amant, 22 n. ; his efforts to diffuse the Whit- man legend, 51 ; efforts to save it, 54 n.

Philippines, The, retained by Spain, 211 ; part of Spanish America, 211 ; transferred to Eastern Hemisphere, 211-212.

Polk, President, diary of, 230; brings on Mexican War, 229; his policy, 230-242.

Polybius, 143 n., 166.

Poore, B. P., 81 n.

Portuguese Discoveries, Beazley on, 174 n.

Prescott, W. H., 278, 287.

Price, W., 260 n.

Prudential Committee of the American Board, 56.

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Ranke, L. V., 245-274; bibliography of, 260 n. ; centenary of, 245 ; early interests, 246 ; first teaching, 248 ; as a teacher, 253-255 ; his intellectual attitude, 258 ; methods of criticism, 250 ; on principles of history. 255 ; his exploration of sources, 250-251 ;

History of the Popes, why popular in England, 259 n. ; his chief works, 259 ; History of the World, 260 ; his seminary, first announcement of, 268 ; his account of it, 269-273 ; von Sybel on, 273 ; his disciples, 259 ; Waitz on, 273-274.

Raumer, K. von, suggests practical courses in history, 254, 268.

Recollections as a source of history, 71 and note.

Red River Colony in Oregon, placed in the wrong year in Whitman Legend, 60-61.

Roscher, W., 258.

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Sabliere, Trudaine de la, translator of I'he Federalist, 159 ; death of, 161 n.

Sagres, supposed School of, 1 85.

Saint-Amant, de, mentions Whitman in 1854, 21-22 ; passage translated, 106 ; his account probably based on Brouil- let, 22.

Schouler, J., 229 n.

Schurz, C, 43 n.

Scott, Sir Walter, 249, 277.

Scudder, H. E., 40, 42.

Seminaries, historical, origin of, 265- 268.

Seminaries, philological, 266-267.

Seneca, misinterpretation of, by Roger Bacon, 201 ; by others, 222-224 ; his prophecy, 224.

Simpson, Sir George, his negotiations in Washington, according to Spalding in 1843, 14; in fact, in 1853, 84; re- lation to the Whitman Legend, 74, 82 ; genesis of the fiction, 82-84.

Slavery, African, sanctioned by Nicolas v., 194-19.5.

Slave Trade, early Portuguese, 188, 195 u.

Souza Holstein, Marquis de, 174 n,, 175 n., 185 n.

Spalding, Rev. H. H., goes as mission- ary to Oregon Indians, 3 ; recalled ; characterized, 28 ; charges Whitman Massacre to Jesuits and Hudson's Bay Co., 28-29 ; his story of Whit- man's ride first told in 1864, 101-103 ;