Volume 2, Number 10 · June 25, 1964
A Forgotten Worthy
By Gertrude Himmelfarb
James Anthony Froude: A Biography
by Waldo Hilary Dunn
Oxford, 2 vols., 652 pp., $8.80
The historian of ideas is apt to complain of the company he keeps. Since the best minds of an age are rarely the most representative of that age, he must often deliberately cultivate the second-best. Fortunately in Victorian England the gap between the two was not so large as it is today, and the second-best then might compare favorably with the best now. The historian forced to associate with T. H. Huxley rather than Darwin, or with Froude rather than Carlyle, has little cause for grievance. Things might be much worse.
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