In Froude's book there are signs of haste; in Lecky's there are none.

Without the brilliancy and the eloquence which distinguished Froude, Lecky had a power of marshalling facts that gave to each of them its proper value.

No human being is without prejudice.

But Lecky was curiously unlike the typical Irishman of Froude's imagination.

He has written what is by general acknowledgment the fairest account of the Irish rebellion, and of the Union to which it led.