The Bay State Monthly
A Massachusetts Magazine
Volume II
February, 1885.
Number 5.
Contents
- Contents
- WILLIAM GASTON.
- GENEALOGY.
- TRADITIONS.
- REMINISCENCES OF DANIEL WEBSTER.
- THE DARK DAY.
- NAMES AND NICKNAMES.
- JOHN PRESCOTT, THE FOUNDER OF LANCASTER.
- JOHN PRESCOTT'S WILL.
- A GLIMPSE.
- EARLY HISTORY OF THE BERMUDA ISLANDS.
- TO GOVERNOR COOKE, OF RHODE ISLAND.
- TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE ISLAND OF BERMUDA.
- HEART AND I.
- ELIZABETH.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- CHAPTER IX.
- CHAPTER X.
- WENDELL PHILLIPS.
- EASY CHAIR.
- PUBLISHERS' DEPARTMENT.
- Notes
W'm Gaston.
WILLIAM GASTON.
By ARTHUR P. DODGE.
Victor Hugo has written: "Thehistorian of morals and ideas has a missionno less austere than that of the historianof events. The latter has thesurface of civilization, the struggles ofthe crowns, the births of princes, themarriages of Kings, the battles, the assemblies,the great public men, the revolutionsin the sunlight, all exterior;the other historian has the interior, thefoundation, the people who work, whosuffer and who wait ... Havethese historians of hearts and souls lesserduties than the historian of exteriorfacts?"
There is much unwritten history ofthe Bay State: of the exterior, muchis recorded; of the inte
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