But The Christian Remembrancer was emphatic in its censure, and The Edinburgh Review, of which Henry Reeve had just become editor, was vehemently hostile.
After all, however, an author depends, not upon this party, nor upon that party, but upon the general public.

The public took to Froude's History from the first.

They took to it because it interested them, and carried them on.

Paradoxical it might be.
Partial it might be.

Readable it undoubtedly was.