New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-04

| drama than the Great Reformation was en-
acted before him. He felt, moreover that
though a costume might be wrong or piece
Of furniture out Of date the representation was
az a whole truthful.
That It picturesque no one ever disputed
I will not enter here into the question OF
Froude's style, on which II Is hard to say too
much But there can be no,doubt that for the
purposes OF history 1t has the supreme merit
of TRANSPARENCY OF course it.fascinated peo-
ple:, often without their knowingtt. They might
not be quite sure why they read on'and on. but
they were quite sure they did not;want to stop
They felt also that they were in 1.-THE hands OF
X a master The. secret of. simplicityiwas MS ana
also Of sincerity. And. If there neveriwas any
|, such flourish OF trumpets about Froude as
\ about his contemporary Macauiay he won MS
.way silently to the hearts of hisireaders. ana
+ ~ Won once made friends with him. friends
you remained
II need not be denied. that a Catalogue vi
,curious errors OF detail might be- compiled out
or Mr. Froude's writings | am not concerned
to deny It, In fact. catalogues of that KIND can
he drawn up by anybody and are drawn up
now: though rather for the curiosity OF them
than because sensible persons now think them
az importance The newspapers reproduce some
OF them out Of their inexhaustible pigeon-hoes
and dwell once more for a moment on MS care
lessness about minute research or MS SUPER
fetal handling of important documents.
will take two specimens. He wrote. says
one critic an account of an Australian suhse,
landscape and made the sun go down III the
east Did he? | do not remember, bul II NJ
did I should make the only answer thihK
worth making namely. that from the coast Oh
Yorkshire in England, have myself seen the
sun set In the North German ocean. Inc ctiuc
will probably think that impossible. put IL i
true and there is a perfectly simple eXpahauoh
OF il; which i leave him TO guess. ohe INSTANCE
is as good as the other and either Is Oh equ"'
conseouence,withthe other, and neither is OF the
slightest. . cha cr,t,cs
The second is also illustrative OF me cruz ha
nroneness to mistake the meaning OF VIVA. nv
has hoard We are told rather sOlemhiy 'ha'
Mr. Froude did not study the archlNes al r ii,,n
cas- thoroughly-which may depend on Wne'. ~,
Won think the archives more vital IMAM Wv.
events they record:-that when ne WhS I ..d
g. uataald IN insnect the Cecil papers no staNeu
but a day; and finally. that when ne wa WIZ.
ing the Life Of Lord Beaconsheid me eNvO W."
Of the deceased statesman onered MN lle ~
r,r,itv of examining masses of papers IN
their possession. and that he was sa.si'Hu wr,,
a glance at them during SatutuaH ~ ~. n,nriss
visit The probable truth OF 'nV H ~ tru,b
nav No il-ed by what know TO De 'n' '","
of this last The allusion is TO the Pap', - -
nossession If Lord Rothschild al lI,'s ,r N
'rnoe IN asses of papers contained III IN
gle dispatch-box. They consist en'. KY u,,ahie
fers which passed between him ana 'he ai,,ia ~.
but otherwise obscure lady, who al he' 49,, vi
left him a large, of money read tnen an
&c rnanuscript They have since been type
ia md lie on a table In the smoking-r room
at FIRING Park They relate to single ep,souIS
I'm Lord Beaconshelds life. and anyoody couiu
|, master them in few hours al mosl, 40 vI
MAJ, h,ngranher their value Is slight Yet
Tr Froude is reproached because he dispose
~ them between Saturday and MONDAY, . y
VI t HE mai his memory will survive mat re-
|, propaoie '""' ~ G. W. :.
: proach