See also:

• JAMES
• JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
• JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
• JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
• JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
• JAMES, EPISTLE OF
• JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
• JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
• JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
• JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)

JAMES See also:

• ANTHONY, SAINT
• ANTHONY, SUSAN BROWNELL (1820-1906)

ANTHONY See also:

• JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE (1818-1894)

FROUDE (1818-1894)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English historian, son of R . H . See also:

• FRONDE, THE

Fronde, See also:

• ARCHDEACON (Lat. archidiaconus, Gr. &oxt3tauovor)

archdeacon of See also:

• TOTNES
• TOTNES, GEORGE CAREW, or CAREY, EARL OF (1555-1629)

Totnes, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Dartington, See also:

• DEVON, EARLS OF

Devon, on the 23rd of See also:

• APRIL

April 1818 . He.was educated at See also:

• WESTMINSTER
• WESTMINSTER, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
• WESTMINSTER, STATUTES OF
• WESTMINSTER, SYNODS OF

Westminster and See also:

• ORIEL
• ORIEL, JOHN FOSTER, BARON (1740-1828)

Oriel See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, See also:

• OXFORD
• OXFORD, EARLS OF
• OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
• OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
• OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
• OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
• OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST

Oxford, then the centre of the ecclesiastical revival . He obtained a second class and the See also:

• CHANCELLOR (M. Eng. and Anglo-Fr. canceler, chanceler, Fr. chancelier, Lat. cancellarius)

chancellor's English See also:

• ESSAY, ESSAYIST (Fr. essai, Late Lat. exagium, a weighing or balance; exigere, to examine; the term in general meaning any trial or effort)

essay See also:

• PRIZE, or PRIZE OF WAR (Fr. prise, from prendre, to take)

prize, and was elected a See also:

• FELLOW

fellow of See also:

• EXETER
• EXETER, EARL, MARQUESS AND DUKE OF

Exeter College (1842) . His See also:

• ELDER (0. Eng. ellarn; Ger. Holunder; Fr. sureau)
• ELDER (Gr. 1rpev(3iTepos)

elder See also:

• BROTHER

brother, See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

Richard Hurrell Fronde (1803—1836), had been one of the leaders of the High See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

Church See also:

• MOVEMENT

movement at Oxford . See also:

• FROUDE, JAMES ANTHONY (1818-1894)

Froude joined that party and helped J . H . See also:

• NEWMAN, FRANCIS WILLIAM (1805-1897)
• NEWMAN, JOHN HENRY (1801-1890)

Newman, afterwards See also:

• CARDINAL (Lat. cardinalis)

cardinal, in his Lives of the English See also:

• SAINTS, BATTLE OF THE

Saints . He was ordained See also:

• DEACON (Gr. S&& ovos, minister, servant)

deacon in 1845 . By that See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time his religious opinions had begun to See also:

• CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

change, he See also:

• GREW, NEHEMIAH (1641-1712)

grew dissatisfied with the views of the High Church party, and came under the See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of See also:

• CARLYLE, ALEXANDER (1722-1805)
• CARLYLE, JOSEPH DACRE (1759-18o4)
• CARLYLE, THOMAS (1795-1881)

Carlyle's teaching . Signs of this change first appeared publicly in his Shadows of the Clouds, a See also:

• VOLUME

volume containing two stories of a religious sort, which he published in 1847 under the See also:

• PSEUDONYM (Gr. >l ev&,vuµos, having a false name, ¢Evirls, false and ovoµa, name)

pseudonym of " Zeta," and his See also:

• COMPLETE

complete See also:

• DESERTION

desertion of his party was declared a See also:

• YEAR

year later in his See also:

• NEMESIS

Nemesis of Faith, an heretical and unpleasant See also:

• BOOK

book, of which the earlier See also:

• PART

part seems to be autobiographical .

On the demand of the college he resigned his fellowship at Oxford, and mainly at least supported himself by See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing, contributing largely to See also:

• FRASER
• FRASER, ALEXANDER CAMPBELL (1819– )
• FRASER, JAMES (1818-1885)
• FRASER, JAMES BAILLIE (1783--1856)
• FRASER, SIR WILLIAM AUGUSTUS

Fraser's See also:

• MAGAZINE

Magazine and the Westminster See also:

• REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

Review . The excellence of his See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style was soon generally re-cognized . The first two volumes of his See also:

• HISTORY

History of See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England from the Fall of See also:

• WOLSEY, THOMAS (c. 1475–1530)

Wolsey to the Defeat of the See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish See also:

• ARMADA, THE

Armada appeared in 1856, and the See also:

• WORK

work was completed in 187o . As an historian he is chiefly remarkable for See also:

• LITERARY

literary excellence, for the See also:

• ART

art with which he represents his conception of the past . He condemns a scientific treatment of history and disregards its See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy . He held that its See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office was simply to See also:

• RECORD (Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from cor, heart or mind)

record human actions and that it should be written as a See also:

• DRAMA (literally "action," from Gr. Snail, act or do)

drama . Accordingly he gives prominence to the See also:

• PERSONAL

personal See also:

• ELEMENT (Lat. elementum)

element in history . His presentations of See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character and motives, whether truthful or not, are undeniably See also:

• FINE

fine; but his See also:

• DOCTRINE

doctrine that there should be " no theorizing " about history tended to narrow his survey, and consequently he sometimes, as in his remarks on the See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign policy of See also:

• ELIZABETH
• ELIZABETH (1533-1603)
• ELIZABETH (1596-1662)
• ELIZABETH (1635–1650)
• ELIZABETH [ AMELIE EUGENIE ] (1837—1898)
• ELIZABETH [1lisabeth Philippine Marie Helene of France] (1764—1794)
• ELIZABETH [PAULINE ELIZABETH OTTILIE LOUISE] (1843– )
• ELIZABETH [PETROVNA] (1709-1762), EMPRESS
• ELIZABETH, SAINT (1207-1231)

Elizabeth, seems to misapprehend the tendencies of a See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period on which he is writing . Froude's work is often marred by See also:

• PREJUDICE (Lat. praejudicium)

prejudice and incorrect statements . He wrote with a purpose . The keynote of his History is contained in his assertion that the See also:

• REFORMATION
• REFORMATION, THE

Reformation was " the See also:

• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root and source of the expansive force which has spread the Anglo-Saxon See also:

• RACE

race over the globe." Hence he overpraises See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Henry VIII. and others who forwarded the movement, and speaks too harshly of some of its opponents . So too, in his English in See also:

• IRELAND
• IRELAND, CHURCH
• IRELAND, CHURCH OF
• IRELAND, JOHN (1761-1842)
• IRELAND, JOHN (1838- )
• IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY (1777-1835)

Ireland (1872—1874), which was written to show the futility of attempts to conciliate the Irish, he aggravates allthat can be said against the Irish, touches too lightly on English atrocities,and writes unjustly of the influence of See also:

• ROMAN

Roman Catholicism .

A strong See also:

• ANTI, or CAMPA

anti-clerical prejudice is See also:

• MANIFEST (Lat. manifestus, clear, open to view)

manifest in his See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical work generally, and is doubtless the result of the change in his views on Church matters and his See also:

• ABANDONMENT (Fr. abandonnement, from abandonner, to abandon, relinquish; abandonner was originally equivalent to mettred banddn, to leave to the jurisdiction, i.e. of another, bandon being from Low Latin bandum, bannum, order, decree, " ban ")

abandonment of the clerical profession . Carlyle's influence on him may be traced both in his admiration for strong rulers and strong See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government, which led him to write as though tyranny and brutality were excusable, and in his See also:

• INDEPENDENT

independent treatment of character . His rehabilitation of Henry VIII. was a useful protest against the See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea that the See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king was a See also:

• MERE
• MERE, ADALBERT (1838-1909)

mere sanguinary profligate, but his See also:

• REPRESENTATION

representation of him as the self-denying See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister of his See also:

• PEOPLE

people's will is erroneous, and is founded on the false theory that the preambles of the acts of Henry's parliaments represented the opinions of the educated laymen of England . As an See also:

• ADVOCATE (Lat. advocatus, from advocare, to summon, especially in law to call in the aid of a counsel or witness, and so generally to summon to one's assistance)

advocate he occasionally forgets that sobriety of See also:

• JUDGMENT

judgment and expression become an historian . He was not a See also:

• JUDGE (Lat. judex, Fr. juge)

judge of See also:

• EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

evidence, and seems to have been unwilling to admit the force of any See also:

• ARGUMENT

argument or the authority of any statement which militated against his See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case . In his See also:

• DIVORCE

Divorce of See also:

• CATHERINE
• CATHERINE, SAINT

Catherine of See also:

• ARAGON, or ARRAGON (in Span. Aragon)

Aragon (1891) he made an unfortunate See also:

• ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt to show that certain fresh evidence on the subject, brought forward by Dr See also:

• GAIRDNER, JAMES (1828– )

Gairdner, Dr See also:

• FRIEDMANN, MEIR (1831—1908)

Friedmann and others, was not inconsistent with the views which he hd'd expressed in his History nearly See also:

• FORTY

forty years before . He worked diligently at See also:

• ORIGINAL

original See also:

• MANUSCRIPT

manuscript authorities at See also:

• SIMANCAS

Simancas, the Record Office and See also:

• HATFIELD

Hatfield See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

House; but he used his materials carelessly, and evidently brought to his investigation of them a mind already made up as to their significance . His See also:

• LIFE

Life of See also:

• CAESAR, GAIUS JULIUS (102—44 B.c.)
• CAESAR, SIR JULIUS (1557-1558-1636)

Caesar (1879), a glorification of imperialism, betrays an imperfect acquaintance with Roman politics and the life of See also:

• CICERO

Cicero; and of his two pleasant books of travel, The English in the See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

West Indies (1888) shows that he made little effort to See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master his subject, and Oceana (1886), the record of a tour in See also:

• AUSTRALIA

Australia and New See also:

• ZEALAND (also SEALAND Or SEELAND; Danish Sjaelland)

Zealand, among a multitude of other blunders, notes the prosperity of the working-classes in See also:

• ADELAIDE
• ADELAIDE (Ger. Adelheid) (931-999)

Adelaide at the date of his visit, when, in fact, owing to a failure in the See also:

• WHEAT
• WHEAT (Triticum)

wheat-See also:

• CROP (a word common. in various forms, such as Germ. Kropf, to many Teutonic languages for a swelling, excrescence, round head or top of anything; it appears also in Romanic languages derived from Teutonic, in Fr. as troupe, whence the English " crupper "

crop, hundreds were then living on charity . He was constitution-ally inaccurate, and seems to have been unable to represent the exact sense of a document which See also:

• LAY

lay before him, or even to copy from it correctly . Historical scholars ridiculed his mistakes, and See also:

• FREEMAN
• FREEMAN, EDWARD AUGUSTUS (1823-1892)

Freeman, the most violent of his critics, never let slip a See also:

• CHANCE (through the O. Fr. cheance, from the Late Lat. cadentia, things happening, from cadere, to fall out, happen; cf. " case ")

chance of hitting at him in the Saturday Review . Froude's temperament was sensitive, and he suffered from these attacks, which were often unjust and always too See also:

• SAVAGE
• SAVAGE, MINOT JUDSON (1841– )
• SAVAGE, RICHARD (d. 1743)

savage in See also:

• TONE, THEOBALD WOLFE (1763-1798)

tone . The literary See also:

• QUARREL

quarrel between him and Freeman excited See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general See also:

• INTEREST

interest when it blazed out in a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of articles which Freeman wrote in the Contemporary Review (1878—1879) on Froude's See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

Short Study of See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

Thomas See also:

• BECKET, THOMAS (c. 1118—1170)

Becket .

Notwithstanding its defects, Froude's History is a See also:

• GREAT

great achievement; it presents an important and powerful See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of the Reformation period in England, and See also:

• LAYS

lays before us a picture of the past magnificently conceived, and painted in See also:

• COLOURS, MILITARY

colours which will never lose their freshness and beauty . As with Froude's work generally, its literary merit is remarkable; it is a well-balanced and orderly narrative, coherent in See also:

• DESIGN (Fr. desiin, drawing; Lat. designare, to mark out)

design and symmetrical in See also:

• EXECUTION (from Lat. ex-sequor, exsecutus, follow or carry out)

execution . Though it is perhaps needlessly See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long, the See also:

• THREAD (0. Eng. praed, literally, that which is twisted, prawan, to twist, to throw, cf. " throwster," a silk-winder, Ger. drehen, to twist, turn, Du. draad, Ger. Draht, thread, wire)

thread of the See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story is never lost amid a See also:

• CROWD, CROUTH, CROWTH

crowd of details; every incident is made subordinate to the general idea, appears in its appropriate See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place, and contributes its See also:

• SHARE (O. Eng. scearu, chiefly in compounds, e.g. land-scearu, a share of land, from sceran to cut; cf. " shear" )

share to the perfection of the whole . The excellence of its See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form is matched by the beauty of its style, for Fronde was a master of English See also:

• PROSE

prose . The most notable characteristic of his style is its graceful simplicity; it is never affected or laboured; his sentences are short and easy, and follow one another naturally . He is always lucid . He was never in doubt as to his own meaning, and never at a loss for the most appropriate words in which to See also:

• EXPRESS (through the French from the past participle of the Lat. exprimere, to press out, by transference used of representing objects in painting or sculpture, or of thoughts, &c. in words)

express it . See also:

• SIMPLE

Simple as his See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language is, it is dignified and worthy of its subject . Nowhere perhaps does his style appear to more See also:

• ADVANTAGE

advantage than in his four series of essays entitled Short Studies on Great Subjects(1867—1882), for it is seen there unfettered by the obligations of narrative . Yet his narrative is admirably told . For the most part flowing easily along, it rises on See also:

• FIT

fit occasions to splendour, picturesque beauty or pathos . Few more brilliant pieces of historical writing exist than his description of the See also:

• CORONATION (Lat. corona, crown)

coronation procession of See also:

• ANNE (1665-1714)
• ANNE (1693-1740)

Anne See also:

• BOLEYN (or BULLEN), ANNE (c. 1507–1536)

Boleyn through the streets of See also:

• LONDON

London, few more full of picturesque See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power than that in which he relates how the See also:

• SPIRE

spire of St See also:

• PAUL
• PAUL (PAULUS)

Paul's was struck by See also:

• LIGHTNING

lightning; and to have once read is to remember for ever the touching and stately words in which he compares the monks of the London See also:

• CHARTERHOUSE

Charterhouse preparing for See also:

• DEATH

death with the Spartans at See also:

• THERMOPYLAE (Gr. OepµSs, hot, and 1rf)X,

Thermopylae .

Proofs of his power in the sustained narration of stirring events are abundant; his treatment of the See also:

• PILGRIMAGE (Fr. pelerinage, Lat. peregrinatio)

Pilgrimage of See also:

• GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
• GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )

Grace, of the See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea fight at St Helens and the repulse of the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French invasion, and of the See also:

• MURDER

murder of See also:

• RIZZIO

Rizzio, are among the most conspicuous examples of it . Nor is he less successful when recording pathetic events, for his stories of certain martyrdoms, and of the execution of See also:

• MARY
• MARY (1457-1482)
• MARY (1496-1533)
• MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS

Mary See also:

• QUEEN
• QUEEN (O.E. cwen, wife, related to "quean," O.E. cwene, a hussy; cf. Gr. yvvi7: from root gan-, to produce; cf. genus, " kin," &c.)

queen of Scots, are told with exquisite feeling and in language of well-restrained emotion . And his characters are alive . We may not always agree with his See also:

• PORTRAITURE

portraiture, but the men and See also:

• WOMEN

women whom he saw exist for us See also:

• INSTINCT

instinct with the life with which he endows them and animated by the motives which he attributes to them . His successes must be set against his failures . At the least he wrote a great history, one which can never be disregarded by future writers on his period, be their opinions what they may; which attracts and delights a multitude of readers, and is a splendid example of literary form and grace in historical See also:

• COMPOSITION
• COMPOSITION (Lat. compositio, from componere, to put together)

composition . The merits of his work met with full recognition . Each See also:

• INSTALMENT (for earlier stallment or estallment, from Fr. estaler, to fix, arrange; the change is probably due to the influence of the verb " install ")

instalment of his History, in See also:

• COMMON

common with almost everything which he wrote, was widely read, and in spite of some adverse criticisms was received with eager See also:

• APPLAUSE (Lat. applaudere, to strike upon, clap)

applause . In 1868 he was elected See also:

• RECTOR (Lat. for " ruler," " guide," &c., from regere, " rule ")

rector of St See also:

• ANDREWS, JAMES PETTIT (c. 1737–1797)
• ANDREWS, THOMAS (1813–1885)

Andrews University, defeating Disraeli by a See also:

• MAJORITY (Fr. majorite; Med. Lat. majoritas; Lat. major, greater)

majority of fourteen . He was warmly welcomed in the See also:

• UNITED

United States, which he visited in 1872, but the lectures on Ireland which he delivered there caused much dissatisfaction . On the death of his adversary Freeman in 1892, he was appointed, on the recommendation of See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord See also:

• SALISBURY
• SALISBURY, EARLS OF
• SALISBURY, ROBERT ARTHUR TALBOT GASCOYNECECIL, 3RD MARQUESS OF (1830-1903)
• SALISBURY, ROBERT CECIL, 1ST EARL OF (c. 1565-1612)
• SALISBURY, THOMAS DE MONTACUTE, 4TH EARL OF (1388-1428)
• SALISBURY, WILLIAM LONGSWORD (or LONGESPEE), EARL OF (d. 1226)

Salisbury, to succeed him as regius See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• MODERN

modern history at Oxford . Except to a few Oxford men, who considered that historical scholarship should have been held to be a necessary qualification for the office, his See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment gave general See also:

• SATISFACTION (Lat. salisfacerc, to satisfy)

satisfaction .

His lectures on See also:

• ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS (1466–1536)

Erasmus and other 16th-See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century subjects were largely attended . With some See also:

• ALLOWANCE (from "allow,' derived through 0. Fr. alouer from the two Lat. origins adlaudare, to praise, and allocare, to assign a place; so that the English word combined the general idea of "assigning with approval")

allowance for the purpose for which they were originally written, they See also:

• PRESENT

present much the same characteristics as his earlier historical books . His See also:

• HEALTH

health gave way in the summer of 1894, and he died on the loth of See also:

• OCTOBER

October . His long life was full of literary work . Besides his labours as an author, he was for fourteen years editor of Fraser's Magazine . He was one of Carlyle's literary executors, and brought some See also:

• SHARP, GRANVILLE (1735-1813)
• SHARP, JAMES (1618-1679)
• SHARP, JOHN (1645-1714)
• SHARP, RICHARD (1759-1835)
• SHARP, WILLIAM (1749-1824)
• SHARP, WILLIAM (1856-1905)

sharp See also:

• CRITICISM
• CRITICISM (from the Gr. KpiTrlS, a judge, Kpivew, to decide, to give an authoritative opinion)

criticism upon himself by See also:

• PUBLISHING

publishing Carlyle's Reminiscences and the Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle, for they exhibited the domestic life and character of his old friend in an unpleasant See also:

• LIGHT

light . Carlyle had given the See also:

• MANUSCRIPTS

manuscripts to him, telling him that he might publish them if he thought it well to do so, and at the See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close of his life agreed to their publication . Fronde therefore declared that in giving them to the See also:

• WORLD

world he was carrying out his friend's wish by enabling him to make a See also:

• POSTHUMOUS

posthumous See also:

• CONFESSION (Lat. confessio, from confiteor, acknowledge, confess)

confession of his faults . Besides publishing these manuscripts he wrote a Life of Carlyle . His earlier study of Irish history afforded him suggestions for a historical novel entitled Time Two Chiefs of Dunboy (1889) . In spite of one or two stirring scenes it is a tedious book, and its personages are little more than See also:

• MACHINES

machines for the enunciation of the author's opinions and sentiments . Though Froude had some intimate See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends he was generally reserved .

When he cared to please, his See also:

• MANNERS, CHARLES (1857– )

manners and conversation were charming . Those who knew him well formed a high estimate of his ability in See also:

• PRACTICAL

practical affairs . In 1874 Lord See also:

• CARNARVON
• CARNARVON, EARLDOM OF

Carnarvon, then colonial secretary, sent Froude to See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

Africa to See also:

• REPORT (O.Fr. report or raport, modern rapport, from O.Fr. reporter, mod. rap porter, Lat. reportare, to bring back, in poetical use only, of bringing back an account, news, &c.)

report on the best means of promoting a See also:

• CONFEDERATION (Fr. confederation, Lat. confoederatio, from foedus, a league, foederare, to form a league)

confederation of its colonies and states, and in 1875 he was again sent to the Cape as a member of a proposed See also:

• CONFERENCE

conference to further confederation . Froude's speeches in South Africa were rather injudicious, and his See also:

• MISSION

mission was a failure (see SOUTH AFRICA: History) . He was twice married . His first wife, adaughter of Pascoe Grenfell and See also:

• SISTER

sister of Mrs See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles See also:

• KINGSLEY, CHARLES (1819-1875)
• KINGSLEY, HENRY (183o-1876)
• KINGSLEY, MARY HENRIETTA (1862-1900)

Kingsley, died in 186o; his second, a daughter of See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John Warre, M.P. for See also:

• TAUNTON
• TAUNTON, HENRY LABOUCHERE, BARON (1798–1869)

Taunton, died in 1874 . Froude's Life, by See also:

• HERBERT (FAMILY)
• HERBERT, GEORGE (1593-1633)
• HERBERT, HENRY WILLIAM
• HERBERT, SIR THOMAS (1606-1682)

Herbert Paul, was published in 1905 . (W .