"This is a project of constituting a history out of a classified and arranged compilation of representative editorials and public addresses- carefully annotated- of the long-time and renowned editor of the leading newspaper in the Pacific Northwest… Insuperable difficulties would seem to debar the possibility of approximating anything near an ideal history with such a plan and materials... And yet the revealing potencies of these constituent units of the text of this work... do achieve an effect, different from that of a connected narrative but probably equal to the highest."
