Some Hidden Sources of Fiction

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Excerpt from Some Hidden Sources of Fiction: A Paper Read Before the Historical Society of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania Mere tombstone information is neither a valuable nor a desirable acquisition. Familiarity with history benefits us only by increasing our knowledge of human nature, furnishing us with examples of character to be emulated or avoided and enabling us, from experience of the past, to predict the probable consequences of present conduct. The well-written historical novel has attained deserved popularity because, while faithful in the portrayal of important historical characters and in the description of well-known historical events, the author changes what to many is a repulsive skeleton into a thing of life and blood, by introducing minor personages and events, partly or wholly fictitious, in order to show the customs, habits, costumes, dialect and spirit of times with which the average reader cannot be familiar. Thus it happens that all the valuable lessons of history are sometimes conveyed to our minds by works which are largely fiction. In order to acquire correct surroundings, atmosphere and colloquial expressions for his fictitious characters, the author of a historical novel must have in mind real persons, who involuntarily serve as models for the creatures of his imagination. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.