He knows his American history and has written much on it.

He's written it as an Ohio blacksmith shoes a horse--not a touch of literary value in it all; all dry as dust--as dry as old Bancroft.
Style is good breeding--and art--in writing.

It consists of the arrangement of your matter, first; then, more, of the gait; the manner and the manners of your expressing it.

Work every group of facts, naturally and logically grouped to begin with, into a climax.

Work every group up as a sculptor works out his idea or a painter, each group complete in itself.