"An essay in which for whole pages a truth expressed in brilliant epigrams regularly alternates with mistakes or misstatements which would be scarcely pardoned in a "special" war correspondent hurriedly writing against time."

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Henry Bartle Frere on Froude's article in the Quarterly Review of April 1879 on British policy in South Africa, quoted in John Martineau, The Life and Correspondence of Sir Bartle Frere, Bart., G.C.B., F.R.S., Etc. Vol. II (1895), p. 367