...Kingsbury Badger Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 THE ORDEAL OF ANTHONY FROUDE, PROTESTANT HISTORIAN By KINGSBURYBADGER One morning in February, 1849, the Reverend William Sewell, sub-rector of Exeter College, Oxford...

... Press, 1983. 614 pp. $35.00. Although the great biographer Carlyle has been blessed (or cursed) with innumerable biographies, none has replaced Froude’s monumental Lfe (1884).Any new biography that attempts to supplant it-as Kaplan’s clearly does-must come to terms with the powerful...

... should still not trouble to do so, so long as I had a hut there that was comfort- able enough for me.—Kant, The Critique of Judgement arly in the winter of 1887 James Anthony Froude, friend, biogra- E pher, and literary executor of Thomas Carlyle, was aboard a ship bound from Grenada...

..., the efforts of Hurrell Froude to un-Protestantize the Church of England were to be coun- 1 Ernest Renan, Recollections of My Youth (New York, 1883), pp. 272-73,276; and John Henry Newman, Apologia pro vita sua, ed. C. F. Harrold (New York, 1947), p. 216. 86...

... resigned, for religious reasons, both his tutor- ship and fellowship at Oriel College. Clearly there had been something wrong with his mental life at the University. Arthur’s resignation was no surprise to his intimate friends- George William Ward, Matt and Tom Arnold, Anthony Froude, and J. P...

... to the periodicals. (J. A. Froude, Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life [New York, 18821, I, 60-61.) 2 Cf. letter of February 15, 1819, in Early Letters of Thomas Carlyle, ed. Norton, one-volume edition (London and New York, 1886), p. 102; Rem- iniscences by Thomu...

... on Hurrell Froude: In 1831 he developed symptoms of tuberculosis and spent the winter of 1832-3 with Newman in southern Europe. He returned through France and came into contact with the party of Lammen- ais [sic], Lacordaire, and Montalembert, then in the pagesofL’Auenir...

... in Time 33 The Prose Epic James Anthony Froude once called Hakluyt’s imposing book “the Prose Epic of the modern English nation.” It contains, he said, “the heroic tales of the exploits of the great men in whom the new era was inaugu- rated; not mythic like the Iliads...

... on the “transporting” sight of an infant, who seems “SO helpless, so reasonless,” but at that very moment has “a soul so fully formed, as . . . to be a child of wrath” (PPS, 3:167). He finds in l2 On I February 1836, Newman tells Richard Hurrell Froude that he visited Stephen to get further opinions...

... Victorians, including Tennyson, Ruskin, Froude, Gladstone, and Leslie Stephen, were en- rolled at some period during the society’s eleven years of existence. At the monthly meetings papers were read on such topics as the nature of causality, miracles, the personality of God, the ethics...

.... After Froude’s publica- tions about the unhappy relationship between Carlyle and his wife, I remember his saying to me that all he could say was that he saw nothing of it, this with a pained look on his face. My uncle was not a very good letter writer, but was remarkably pleasant in company...

... and some at least of the ninety Tractsfor the Times, to look into Hurrell Froude’s Remains, and of course to read Newman’s Apolopa. Few, however, have felt a responsibility to become familiar with Trac- tarian poetry, and fewer still perhaps have thought that there was need for a contemporary...

..., Froude, Gladstone, and Leslie Stephen, were en- rolled at some period during the society’s eleven years of existence. At the monthly meetings papers were read on such topics as the nature of causality, miracles, the personality of God, the ethics of belief, and the scientific basis...

... commentary is to be found in the fol- 1 Il’orks of Tltoiiras Cnrlylc (New York, 1897), IS, 87 f., Appendix 8. 2 J. A. Froude. Thoulas Carlylc: A History of His Life i~iLondon, 1834-1881 (Kcw York, 1884), I, 217 (Letter to blrs. Aitken, May 10, 1842). :$ Thomas Wright, Life of Edxpard...

... everything. It is not a critical biography, its critical comments being limited to the place of (hrlyle’s works in his general artistic development. Froude’s biography will remain, for the time tieing at least, the only source for Carlyle’s journals after 1834. And Kaplan has clearly written...

... at Oxford, to say nothing of even more forgotten novels like Maurice’s Eustace Conway, Sterling’s Arthur Coningsby, and Froude’s Nemesis of Faith (unluckily disguised in the bibliog- raphy as The Nemesis of Fate). Alongside his quotations from the great ex- positors, he includes examples from...

... something of the history of the Oxford Movement, to read Keble’s Assize Sermon and some at least of the ninety Tractsfor the Times, to look into Hurrell Froude’s Remains, and of course to read Newman’s Apolopa. Few, however, have felt a responsibility to become familiar with Trac- tarian poetry...

..., when a short time later he went to Ireland ostensibly to superintend the establishment of the Catholic University of Ireland, his action undoubtedly was interpreted by some of the “other side” as, at best, a prudent self-imposed exile. 4Newman to Mrs. W. Froude, and Newman to Sister...

... continuing economic failure on inherent racial characteristics of West Indians. Taylor’s examples in the coda are James Anthony Froude’s travel narrative The English in the West Indies (1888) and the reactions it elicited from West Indians. The most famous riposte was John Jacob Thomas’s Froudacity (1889...

.... James Anthony Froude went through a worse struggle, including poverty, than did Pattison, despite the Rector’s remarks to the contrary;24yet he bore up under adversity with the fortitude of the old scop Deor. Although these men did not break under the strain and sink into relative...