To analyse his style is as difficult as not to feel the charm of it.

It is as smooth as the motion of a ship sailing on a calm sea, and yet it is never fiat nor tame.
Although Froude, like Newman, belonged to the Oriel school, he has a spirit which is not of any school, which breathes from the wide ocean and the liquid air.

He wrote, for all his scholarly grace, like a man of flesh and blood, not a pedant nor a doctrinaire.
Impartial he never was, nor pretended to be.

Dramatic he could not help being, and yet his own opinions were seldom concealed.

Three or four main propositions were at the root of his mind.