Froude did not always correct his proofs with mechanical accuracy, and this gave Freeman an advantage of which he was not slow to avail himself.

"Mr.Froude," he says in The Saturday Review for the 30th of January, 1864, "talks of a French attack on Guienne, evidently meaning Guisnes.

It is hardly possible that this can be a misprint." It was of course a misprint, and could hardly have been anything else.

Guisnes was a town, and could be attacked.

Guienne was a province, and would have been invaded.