and even wrote, in the name of The Saturday
Review, "We are no judges of metaphors," though there must surely
have been some one on the staff who knew something about them.

Froude had a mode of treating documents which is open to
animadversion. He did not, as Mr. Pollard happily puts it in the
Dictionary of National Biography, "respect the sanctity of inverted
commas." They ought to imply textual quotation, Froude used them for
his abridgments, openly proclaiming the fact that he had abridged,
and therefore deceiving no one. Freeman's comment upon this
irregularity is extremely characteristic. "Now we will not call this
dishonest; we do not believe that Mr. Froude is intentionally
dishonest in this or any other matter; but then it is because he does
not know what literary honesty and dishonesty are." There is no such
thing as literary honesty, or scientific honesty, or political
honesty. There is only one kind of honesty, and an honest man does
not misrepresent an opponent, as Freeman misrepresented Froude. To
call a man a liar is an insult. To say that is not a liar because he
does not know the difference between truth and falsehood is a
cowardly insult. But Froude was soon avenged. Freeman gave himself
into his adversary's hands. "Sometimes," he wrote,* "Mr. Froude gives
us the means of testing him. Let us try a somewhat remarkable
passage. He tells us "It had been argued in the Admiralty Courts that
the Prince of Orange, 'having his principality of his title in
France, might make lawful war against the Duke of Alva,* and that the
Queen would violate the rules of neutrality if she closed her ports
against his cruisers." Then follows a Latin passage from which the
English is paraphrased. "We presume," continues Freeman in fancied
triumph, "that the words put by Mr. Froude in inverted commas are
not Lord Burghiey's summary of the Latin extract in the note, but Mr.
Froude's own, for it is utterly impossible that Burghley could have
so misconceived a piece of plain Latin, or have so utterly
misunderstood the position of any contemporary prince." Presumption
indeed. I have before me a photograph of Burghley's own words in his
own writing examined by Froude at the Rolls House. They are "Question
whether the Prince of Orange, being a free prince of the Empire, and
also having his principality of his title in France, might not make a
just war against the Duke of Alva." Froude abridged, and wrote
"lawful" for "just." But the