Says Movies Can Portray History

"Sir Walter Scott found history in a state of patient antiquarianism as constant in its treatment as a frieze of the Parthenon and left it as diverse as an ever-changing pageant," said Mr. George Macaulay Trevelyan in his talk on "The relation of "History and Literature" in the Faculty room of the Union last night. Mr. Trevelyan pointed out that the greatest works in each of the fields of literature and history, are those which have been written with a vital relation to the other field."

"The historical novel has performed an enormous service to the study of history," he said, "and the moving picture has still greater opportunities to link the facts of history to the environment and atmosphere of the epoch. The acrobatic portrait of the old English hero in the moving-picture, Robin Hood,' is the type of danger which the moving-picture industry runs."