CHAPTER IX.
_CATILINE._ To wash the blackamoor white has been the favorite task of some modern historians.

To find a paradox in character is a relief to the investigating mind which does not care to walk always in the well-tried paths, or to follow the grooves made plain and uninteresting by earlier writers.

Tiberius and even Nero have been praised.

The memories of our early years have been shocked by instructions to regard Richard III.

and Henry VIII.