The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-10-17
Is astonishing how many works OF intrinsic
merit this country has produced.
CRITICS AND ClITICIsMs.

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Reporter. You were ve:y bitterly attacked
Stuart?
Mr.. Froude. Yes, I vas roundly abused, but
you know we soon get accustomed to thai
(smlling.) .11..he skin gets thick. I always tell
my critics that 1t / were TO review my OWL
works I should leave much less of them than
they do.
Reporter. What gave you the idea OF writing
the History Of England9
Mr.. FroHde. Oh, l had nothing to do, and q
mai must do something. Besides, ! enjoy
literary work. The beauty of 1t ls, you can Sit
In your room and work, and you are not com.
PEELED to run about from one place to another
like men In the pursuit Of business. You have
read Macaulny ? Macaulay had q great many
advantages ss an historian. he was:born and
bred a politician, and was surrounded, az ii
we're, by an atmosphere OF history.
EVE IS A LoNG WORD.
Reporter. VIII England ever become a Be.
public?
bound to pass away, 30 tile English monarchy
will In time give way to another form OF gov
eminent. When? All, tlat is another ques-
ton. Our governments are very like. The
people In America as well as In England are
the source of power. The people govern.
Parliament will and can do nothing against
their will, for Parliament ls but an expression
of the people. The Queen herself can do moth
ing without Parliament. We have the same
rights In England that yoa have here.
Reporter. Will the prerogatives Of the no.
bility not be abolished In time?
Mr.. Fronde. There Is rot the slightest ILL
will on the part of the people. against the
nobility. It would be impossible to get up any
mass meeting for sbUllshing the House Of
Lords-I mean any meetings that would
amount 10 anything. I think the condition OF
the working classes has bsen very, very much
ameliorated In the last twenty years. The
greatest amount OF suffering now is inflicted
by the ebb aud flow of trade.
THE LABOR QUESTION.
Reporter. And the trades unions, are they
doing much good? i.
. Mr.. Froude. Very much indeed. I have
taken q great Interest In them, and. as you
see. the men now get anything they demand.
Reporter. Still the House OF Commons Ia q
very. aris!ocratic body, Is 1t not
Mr.. Fr0ude. Yes; buE the worklngmen Of
They want bglter wages and less hours OF
work, and they are getting these. No, the
monarchy has not much to fear from the work.
ing Glasses as they are now disposed. The
Queen Is the most popular sovereign we have
had since the time OF Queen Elizabeth.
THE SUCCESSOR OF QUEEN VICTORIA.
Reporter. But how II England should have
an arbitrary and headslropg ruler?
Mr.. Froude. That would be very serious. I
don't know what we should do Then. Still, /
believe the English. will always be q ireespeo-
pie In regard to the Prince of Wales. I think
he will be quietly crowned King of England.
he has had the reputation Of being q scape-
grace, but ] think he is q gentleman and will
know how to dill his place. Id not think 1t
likely that England will have a headstrone
ruler. The relgning family are not likely 10
produce q genius who would endapger theFlib-
erty of the people. They are people Of sound
common sense. but that ID all.
%FRoUnE's OPINION OF AMERICAN LADIES.
Reporter. What do you think Of the Amer
loan ladies'
Mr.. Froude. They are very we'll educated
and very pretty Think they look very much
like the English ladies. I can bee scarcely
any difference.
Reporter. How do you like American cook
ing? -.
Mr.. Froude. LIND that this is an admira-
bly. manaRed hotel cnnslrnctadjnst-- lika-a
most elaborate dishes are we'll served. l
heard that you had a great deal oil trouble
with your servants in this country. I can as.
sure It would be impossible, all the world
over, to hud servants who are more polite,
more attentive, quicker, and more skllful
than those In this MOTEL. If this is a specimen
of the, Amerlcan hotels, then they are admira-
BILE.
Reporter (rlsing to leave.) lam glad your
frat Impressions of the country are 30 faVora-
BILE.
Mr.. Froude. O. yes. iii tell you what
struck me yesterday very favorably. /
thought was In a military city. Twenty
thousand men In rms New York must have
a powerful army. I aiterward learned that 1t
was but the ordinary parade. First / thought
I had got Into an encamped city.
Reporter. I am obliged to you, hr. Froude.
Mr.. Froude (grasping his hand warmly