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Excerpt from Prince, Princess, and People: An Account of the Social Progress and Development of Our Own Times, as Illustrated by the Public Life and Work of Their Royal Highnesses; The Prince and Princess of Wales; 1863-1889
It is our pleasant duty to warmly acknowledge the assistance rendered in the course of our inquiry by the authorities of institutions and others, and wherever possible the Prince has been made his own biographer. We have the sincerest gratifica tion in being enabled to declare our large indebted ness to the Press of this country, the files of which afford a truly wonderful evidence of the develop ment of that historical instinct which, whether con sciously or unconsciously, journalists affect more and more each year. This is further proved by the full details of our subject which it has been possible to gather. Had it been otherwise, it would never have been possible to bring home to the minds of the people the successful, extended, and varied labours of their Royal Highnesses, which a perusal of these pages ought to ensure. Of course there are newspapers and newspapers; and our experience and researches go far to prove that the historian of to-day must have a full knowledge of the Press of the period, and of the comparative weight which he is justified in attaching to its contents, or his work will be as unreliable as it must be incomplete, and as misleading as it will be meagre and incomprehensive of the history and character of our day and generation.
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