But such monstrous charges were made against him when he could no longer reply for himself that I may be forgiven for quoting an authority which will command general respect.

Mr.Andrew Lang is as scrupulously accurate in statement as he is brilliantly felicitous in style.

He has studied the history of the sixteenth century, especially in Scotland, and he disagrees with Froude on many, if not on most, of the points in dispute.

Yet this is Mr.Lang's deliberate judgment: "I have found Mr.Froude often in error; often, as I think, misunderstanding, misquoting, omitting and even adding, but I have never once seen reason to suspect him of conscious misrepresentation, of knowingly giving a false impression.

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