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advanced than Newman at that time. when he
died in 1885. The Oxford movement. was at Its
height when James Anthony Froude was at
Orel College, from which he was graduated in
1S4O, taking second class in classics. He did
ns He
Church q England in 1s44. he showed his sym.
Lives Of the English Saints"
The following four years were to see a radical
change IN his religions opinions. The change
Church stand had been, by a book--or rather, by
two books, Few volumes OF The size have made
Faith. which appeared in Is4s, and
reached ty,,, 4. second edition the following
In is47, which was Of similar tendency, Il was
severely condemned by. the university authori-
lowship Of Exeter College. which he had held
since 1912. and he was also obliged to
give up &I.,u an appointment to teacher,
1876 might almost have been expected
70 follow Newman into the Roman Church, was
TropdS was noted FOR his hatred Of Roman
general became after time one more OF indif-
ference than Of active attack.
After After q, quitting Oxford, Froude wrote almost
Job, with which higher criticism. at least, can
separate form in 1854. Two years later Froude
published the first two volumes of his
W1:sy Se bssss bssna d ts soR Spanish s E
from time e time until the Conclusion Of the
reputation Of some of the best Of that monsrch's
of. even n It had not contained SO much that is
as readable asa novel. from which, some of his
eFSs es' s.as. but te erea,
appeared in 1867. On March %, 1860. he was
Installed rector of the University OF, st. An
ha \ IN hatp thap
ferred on him After being editor Of Fraser's
Mdgd,inr for "a 2 short time; Eroude took advan-
Der, 1879, to relinquish the office OF deacon.
which he had continued to hold nominally in
spite of rs want of h ,s,
he delivered series OF lectures on the relations
between England and Ireland. which involved
Thomas Burke the eloquent Dominican priest,
whose oratory will ever be remembered by all
tried to show that Irishmen were TO blame for
their country's distress because OF their
auarrels betseen Themselves and lack of
patriotism. Froude's lectures In amplified form
are embodied in his English in Ireland in the
Eigh,eenth Century" published between 1871
much that Father Burke denounced as untrue.
At the close OF 1874 Froude was sent by the
70 Investigate the Kafiir insurrection His
:. Se@sar; Sketch. was published In is7g and
which had formed e % ns''G TO Gn6d
Words. in 1881. That. year, having been
appointed executor Of Thomas CARLYLE,
= = Thomas Gariyle; History oi the First Forty
1870. Froude's !. Oceanea," q very read
able book on England's colonies, which
was printed in 1850. II has % been criticised by by
the colonists. Among subsequent publications
scene Of which Is laid in Ireland and short life
q Lord Beaeonsfeld. In addition to writing
finually in evidence In the magazines.
RsTias Profsssor q Bist"ry at Oxford, dEs IN ths
pHs us '' Few aGs o Eord sasbuys Hs
NE ifG have r called forth more comment Froude |
men and as historians, for years. They |
represented the opposite schools Of history |
'xact. The friends OF Freeman said 1t was an
INSULT TO the dead scholar, whose life was sacri-
mail-pox in Sicily while investigating its topog.
Apply for his history OF the island. which was
lot destined to be finished. The fact that in
vas a man who was nOtOriously inexact. even
when he was not forced To follow his .prcjudices.
The qearrel between Froude and Freeman,
which Lord Sallsbury's appointment carried be-
'ond the grave, WAS perhaps even longer con-
inGed II not more bitter than almost any IN
10 Opportunity TO assail a man whom
'e regarded as a peryerteE, OF facts and a
10 assailed the man and his methods, the
historian and his works. Almost the only reply
n the Ninstscnih CcntMrv on Freeman's criti.
ism OF his study OF Beckett. II was as tenn
'erate In tone as Freeman's attacks were i'm
Moderate. Freeman thought he did right TO he
nRry, and II would doubtless have added 20 the
bitterness q death,death in the cause OF his
nan whom he regarded as the arch representa-
I've OF historical error would succeed him a
eacher Of history at Oxford.