History.--Concerning the writing of history.--The profession of historian.--Newspapers as historical sources.--Speech prepared for the commencement dinner at Harvard University, June 26, 1901.--Edward Gibbon.--Samuel Rawson Gardiner.--William E.H. Lecky.--Sir Spencer Walpole.--John Richard Green.--Edward L. Pierce.--Jacob D. Cox.--Edward Gaylord Bourne.--The presidential office.--A review of President Hayes's administration.--Edwin Laurence Godkin.--Who burned Columbia?--A new estimate of Cromwell