... correct, as it has many ugly features, notably its narrow streets, little better than alleys, crooked and dirty, filled with garbage, and the yellow pariah dogs that roam in packs through the day and howl at night, while the people themselves would shock ...

... historian are not of the highest order. To pick a hole of this kind in a speaker's remarks is acknowledged to be the derniir resort of the critic—it is made to serve when everything else fails. But the critic who picks a hole in a public man's history should ...