Where he wrote from mere recollection, deserting the safe ground of his diary, he was liable to error, and few men of letters have been less capable of producing a trustworthy guide book.

The value of Oceana and The Bow of Ulysses is altogether different.

They are the characteristic reflections of an intensely vivid, highly cultivated mind, bringing out of its treasure-house things new and old.

"The King knows your book," it was said to Montaigne, "and would like to know you." "If the King knows my book," replied the philosopher, "he knows me." Froude is in his books, especially in his books of travel, for in them, more than anywhere else, he thinks aloud.

There are strange people in the world.