ABSTRACT
Walter L. Arnstein has had a major impact on modern British History in general and Victorian Studies in particular. The first thing that must strike anyone on reading Walter Arnstein's work is the remarkable thoroughness of the research and comprehensiveness of the treatment of any subject he takes up. This is what impressed the author once again in re-reading his two major monographic works, The Bradlaugh Case and Protestant versus Catholic in Mid-Victorian England, for this assignment, and it has impressed outside reviewers and other historians as well. It is hard to find a muddy thought or an awkward sentence in Walter Arnstein's work. It is not at all hard to find neat phrases, cogent summaries, lucid expositions of complicated material, penetrating insights, even dashes of understated wit. More important still, one cannot read what Walter Arnstein writes without seeing how his subject goes somewhere, has a beginning, development, and end that hang together.
