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-- Those who criticised the book as if it were a formal and historical narrative showed a lack of humour, which is a sense of proportion.
Macaulay might almost as well be judged by his Fragment of a Roman Tale.

Froude himself calls his Caesar a sketch, and it is scarcely more authoritative than the pamphlet of Louis Napoleon on the same subject.

On the other hand, it is quite untrue that Froude had not read Cicero's letters.

He had read those which bore upon his subject, and he quotes them freely enough.

The fault of his Caesar is that he makes a wrong start.