Canaletto painted pictures of Venice in which there was not a palace out of drawing, nor a brick out of place.

Yet not all Canaletto's Venetian pictures would give a stranger much idea of the atmosphere of Venice.

Glance at one Turner, in which a Venetian could hardly identify a building or a canal, and there lies before you the Queen of the Sea.

Serious blunders have been discovered by microscopic criticism in Carlyle's French Revolution; it remains the most vivid and impressive version of a tremendous drama that has ever been given to the world.

Froude and Carlyle had the same scorn of the multitude, the same belief in destiny, the same love of truth.