CHAPTER IV.
THE HISTORY "It has not yet become superfluous to insist," said the Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge on the 26th of January, 1903, "that history is a science, no less and no more." If this view is correct and exhaustive, Froude was no historian.

He must remain outside the pale in the company of Thucydides, Tacitus, Gibbon, Macaulay, and Mommsen.

Among literary historians, the special detestation of the pseudo-scientific school, Froude was pre-eminent.

Few things excite more suspicion than a good style, and no theory is more plausible than that which associates clearness of expression with shallowness of thought.

Froude, however, was no fine writer, no coiner of phrases for phrases' sake.
A mere chronicler of events he would hardly have cared to be.