It was when he spoke of the dastardly attempt to strike him through the memory of his brother.

"I look back upon my brother," he said, "as on the whole the most remarkable man I have ever met in my life.

I have never seen any person--not one--in whom, as I now think of him, the excellences of intellect and character were combined in fuller measure.

Of my personal feeling towards him I cannot speak.

I am ashamed to have been compelled, by what I can only describe as an inexcusable insult, to say what I have said." It was not difficult to show that Freeman's four articles in The Contemporary Review contained worse blunders than any he had attributed to Froude, as, for instance, the allegation that Henry VIII., who founded bishoprics and organised the defence of the country, squandered away all that men before his time had agreed to respect.