The dazzling Queen of Scots, like the virtuous Chancellor and the holy Bishop, were on the wrong side.

Henry and Elizabeth, with all their faults, were on the right one.

That is the pith and marrow of Froude's book.

Those who think that in history there is no side may blame him.

He followed Carlyle.
"Froude is a man of genius," said Jowett: "he has been abominably treated." "Il a vu iuste," said a young critic of our own day* in reply to the usual charges of inaccuracy.