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Ancient and Modern
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
EDITOR
HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE, LUCIA GILBERT RUNKLE,
GEORGE H. WARNER
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
THIRTY VOLUMES
VOL. XI
NEW YORK
R. S. PEALE AND J. A. HILL
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THE ADVISORY COUNCIL
CRAWFORD H. TOY, A. M. , LL. D. ,
Professor of Hebrew, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Mass.
THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY, LL. D. , L. H. D. ,
Professor of English in the Sheffield Scientific School of
YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, Conn.
WILLIAM M. SLOANE, PH. D. , L. H. D. ,
Professor of History and Political Science,
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Princeton, N. J.
BRANDER MATTHEWS, A. M. , LL. B. ,
Professor of Literature, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York City.
JAMES B. ANGELL, LL. D. .
President of the
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor, Mich.
WILLARD FISKE, A. M. , PH. D. ,
Late Professor of the Germanic and Scandinavian Languages
and Literatures,
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, N. Y.
EDWARD S. HOLDEN, A. M. , LL. D. ,
Director of the Lick Observatory, and Astronomer,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Berkeley, Cal.
ALCÉE FORTIER, LIT. D. ,
Professor of the Romance Languages,
TULANE UNIVERSITY, New Orleans, La.
WILLIAM P. TRENT, M. A. ,
Dean of the Department of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of
English and History,
UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH, Sewanee, Tenn.
PAUL SHOREY, PH. D. ,
Professor of Greek and Latin Literature,
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, Chicago, Ill.
WILLIAM T. HARRIS, LL. D. ,
United States Commissioner of Education,
BUREAU OF EDUCATION, Washington, D. C.
MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN, A. M. , LL. D. ,
Professor of Literature in the
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, Washington, D. C.
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JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOL. XI
BY CHARLES FREDERICK JOHNSON
The Growth of England's Navy (English Seamen in the
Sixteenth Century')
The Death of Colonel Goring (Two Chiefs of Dunboy')
Scientific Method Applied to History (Short Studies on
Great Subjects')
HENRY B. FULLER
LIVED
1818-1894
The Death of Thomas Becket (same)
Character of Henry VIII. (History of England')
On a siding at a Railway Station (Short Studies on Great
Subjects')
1859-
At the Head of the March (With the Procession')
THOMAS FULLER
SARAH MARGARET FULLER (Marchioness Ossoli)
George Sand ('Memoirs')
Americans Abroad in Europe (At Home and Abroad')
A Character Sketch of Carlyle (Memoirs')
1810-1850
London (The Worthies of England')
Miscellaneous Sayings
1608-1661
The King's Children (The Worthies of England')
A Learned Lady (same)
Henry de Essex, Standard-Bearer to Henry II. (same)
The Good Schoolmaster (The Holy and Profane State')
On Books (same)
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6059
6101
6119
6129
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ÉMILE GABORIAU
BENITO PEREZ GALDÓS
The Impostor and the Banker's Wife: The Robbery ('File
No. 113')
M. Lecoq's System (same)
FRANCIS GALTON
The First Night of a Famous Play (The Court of Charles
IV. ')
ARNE GARBORG
vi
Doña Perfecta's Daughter ('Doña Perfecta')
Above Stairs in a Royal Palace (La de Bringas')
BY WILLIAM HENRY BISHOP
HAMLIN GARLAND
LIVED
1835-1873
The Comparative Worth of Different Races (Hereditary
Genius')
ELIZABETH STEVENSON GASKELL
Our Society ('Cranford')
Visiting (same)
1845-
THEOPHILE GAUTIER
The Conflict of the Creeds (A Freethinker')
BY ROBERT SANDERSON
From The Marsh'
From The Dragon-Fly'
The Doves
The Pot of Flowers
1822-
A Summer Mood (Prairie Songs')
A Storm on Lake Michigan ('Rose of Dutcher's Coolly')
Prayer
The Poet and the Crowd
The First Smile of Spring
The Veterans (The Old Guard')
1851-
1860-
1810-1865
The Entry of Pharaoh into Thebes (The Romance of a
Mummy')
1811-1872
PAGE
6137
6153
6174
6185
6195
6205
6221
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JOHN GAY
EMANUEL VON GEIBEL
The Hare and Many Friends (Fables')
The Sick Man and the Angel (same)
The Juggler (same)
Sweet William's Farewell to Black-Eyed Susan
From What D'ye Call It? '
See'st Thou the Sea?
As it will Happen
Gondoliera
The Woodland
Onward
At Last the Daylight Fadeth
GESTA ROMANORUM
EDWARD GIBBON
AULUS GELLIUS
Second Century A. D.
From Attic Nights'; Origin and Plan of the Book; The
Vestal Virgins; The Secrets of the Senate; Plutarch
and his Slave: Discussion on One of Solon's Laws;
The Nature of Sight; Earliest Libraries; Realistic
Acting; The Athlete's End
·
Death of Julian
Fall of Rome
Silk
LIVED
1685-1732
Theodosius the Emperoure
Moralite
Ancelmus the Emperour
Moralite
How an Anchoress was Tempted by the Devil
Zenobia
Foundation of Constantinople
Character of Constantine
BY W. E. H. LECKY
1815-1884
1737-1794
Mahomet's Death and Character
The Alexandrian Library
Final Ruin of Rome
All from the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire>
PAGE
6237
6248
6253
6261
6271
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WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT
Captain Reece
The Yarn of the Nancy Bell
The Bishop of Rum-ti-foo
Gentle Alice Brown
The Captain and the Mermaids
RICHARD WATSON GILDER
All from the Bab Ballads'
Two Songs from The New Day'
"Rose-Dark the Solemn Sunset »
GIUSEPPE GIUSTI
The Celestial Passion
Non Sine Dolore
On the Life Mask of Abraham Lincoln
From The Great Remembrance'
Lullaby (Gingillino')
The Steam Guillotine
viii
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE
Macaulay (Gleanings of Past Years')
EDWIN LAWRENCE GODKIN
GOETHE
BY EDWARD DOWDEN
LIVED
The Indenture (same)
The Harper's Songs (same)
Mignon's Song (same)
Philina’s Song (same)
Prometheus
Wanderer's Night Songs
1836-
1844-
1809-1850
1809-
1831-
6373
The Duty of Criticism in a Democracy (Problems of
Modern Democracy')
From 'Faust,' Shelley's Translation
Scenes from 'Faust,' Bayard Taylor's Translation
Mignon's Love and Longing (Wilhelm Meister's Appren-
ticeship')
Wilhelm Meister's Introduction to Shakespeare (same)
Wilhelm Meister's Analysis of Hamlet (same)
1749-1832
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6347
6355
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6385
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GOETHE-Continued:
The Elfin-King
From The Wanderer's Storm Song'
The Godlike
Solitude
Ergo Bibamus!
Alexis and Dora
Maxims and Reflections
Nature
NIKOLAI VASILIEVITCH GOGOL
CARLO GOLDONI
From The Inspector'
Old-Fashioned Gentry (Mirgorod ')
BY ISABEL F. HAPGOOD
1809-1852
Oblómof
LIVED
1707-1793
BY WILLIAM CRANSTON LAWTON
First Love and Parting (Memoirs of Carlo Goldoni')
The Origin of Masks in the Italian Comedy (same)
Purists and Pedantry (same)
A Poet's Old Age (same)
The Café
MEIR AAREN GOLDSCHMIDT
1819-1887
Assar and Mirjam (Love Stories from Many Countries')
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
IVAN ALEKSANDROVITCH GONCHARÓF
BY CHARLES MILLS GAYLEY
1728-1774
The Vicar's Family Become Ambitious (The Vicar of
Wakefield')
New Misfortunes: But Offenses are Easily Pardoned Where
There is Love at Bottom (same)
Pictures from The Deserted Village'
Contrasted National Types (The Traveller')
1812-
BY NATHAN HASKELL DOLE
PAGE
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6475
6493
6501
6533
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EDMUND GOSSE
THE BROTHERS DE GONCOURT
Edmond 1822-1896
Jules 1830-1870
Two Famous Men (Journal of the De Goncourts')
The Suicide (Sister Philomène ')
The Awakening (Renée Mauperin')
February in Rome
Desiderium
Lying in the Grass
RUDOLF VON GOTTSCHALL
Heinrich Heine (Portraits and Studies')
JOHN GOWER
X
Petronella (Confessio Amantis')
ULYSSES S. GRANT
HENRY GRATTAN
BY HAMLIN GARLAND
A Texan Experience (same)
The Surrender of General Lee (same)
THOMAS GRAY
LIVED
1849-
Early Life (Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant')
Grant's Courtship (same)
1823-
Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard
Ode on the Spring
On a Distant Prospect of Eton College
The Bard
1325? -1408
1822-1885
On the Character of Chatham
Of the Injustice of Disqualification of Catholics (Speech
in Parliament)
On the Downfall of Bonaparte (Speech in Parliament)
1746-1820
1716-1771
BY GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP
PAGE
6549
6565
6571
6579
6593
6615
6623
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xi
THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY
BY TALCOTT WILLIAMS
On the Athenian Dead at Platæa (Simonides); On the
Lacedæmonian Dead at Platæa (Simonides); On a
Sleeping Satyr (Plato); A Poet's Epitaph (Simmias of
Thebes); Worship in Spring (Theætetus); Spring on
the Coast (Leonidas of Tarentum); A Young Hero's
Epitaph (Dioscorides); Love (Posidippus); Sorrow's
Barren Grave (Heracleitus); To a Coy Maiden (Ascle-
piades); The Emptied Quiver (Mnesalcus); the Tale
of Troy (Alpheus); Heaven Hath its Stars (Marcus
Argentarius); Pan of the Sea-Cliff (Archias); Ana-
creon's Grave (Antipater of Sidon); Rest at Noon
(Meleager); "In the Spring a Young Man's Fancy"
(Meleager); Meleager's Own Epitaph (Meleager); Epi-
logue (Philodemus); Doctor and Divinity (Nicarchus);
Love's Immortality (Strato); As the Flowers of the
Field (Strato); Summer Sailing (Antiphilus); The Great
Mysteries (Crinagoras); To Priapus of the Shore
(Mæcius); The Common Lot (Ammianus); "To-morrow,
and To-morrow" (Macedonius); The Palace Garden
(Arabius); The Young Wife (Julianus Ægyptius); A
Nameless Grave (Paulus Silentiarius); Resignation
(Joannes Barbucallus); The House of the Righteous
(Macedonius); Love's Ferriage (Agathias); On a Fowler
(Isidorus). Anonymous: Youth and Riches; The Sing-
ing Reed; First Love again Remembered; Slave and
Philosopher; Good-by to Childhood; Wishing; Hope
and Experience; The Service of God; The Pure in
Heart; The Water of Purity; Rose and Thorn; A
Life's Wandering
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LIST OF PORTRAITS
IN VOL. XI
James Anthony Froude
Margaret Fuller
Thomas Fuller
Hamlin Garland
Elizabeth Stevenson Gaskell
Théophile Gautier
John Gay
Emanuel von Geibel
Edward Gibbon
William Schwenck Gilbert
Richard Watson Gilder
William Ewart Gladstone
Edwin Lawrence Godkin
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Nikolai Vasilievitch Gogol
Carlo Goldoni
Meïr Aaren Goldschmidt
Oliver Goldsmith
Ivan Aleksandrovitch Goncharóf
Edmond de Goncourt
Rudolf von Gottschall
John Gower
Ulysses S. Grant
Henry Grattan
Thomas Gray
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JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE
(1818-1894)
BY CHARLES FREDERICK JOHNSON
AMES ANTHONY FROUDE, English historian and essayist, was
born April 23d, 1818, and died October 20th, 1894. His
father was a clergyman, and the son was sent to Westmin-
ster School and to Oriel College, Oxford. In 1842 he became a fellow
of Exeter, and two years later he was ordained a deacon; an office
which he did not formally lay down until many years later, although
his earliest publications, Shadows of the Clouds' and 'Nemesis of
Faith,' showed that he had come to hold - and what perhaps is more
to the point, dared to express, - views hardly
compatible with the character of a docile
and unreasoning neophyte.
J. A. FROUDE
These books were severely censured by
the authorities, and cost him-to the great
benefit of the world-an appointment he
had received of teacher in Tasmania. He
resigned his fellowship and took up the pro-
fession of letters, writing much for Fraser
and the Westminster, and becoming for a
short period the editor of the former. His
magnum opus is his 'History of England from
the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the
Spanish Armada,' in twelve volumes, from
1856 to 1870. His other principal publica-
tions are The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century' (1874);
'Cæsar (1879); 'Bunyan 1880); Thomas Carlyle (first forty years of
his life) (1882); Life in London' (1884); Short Studies on Great
Subjects (1882, four series); The Two Chiefs of Dunboy' (1889);
'The English in the West Indies (1889); The Divorce of Catharine
of Aragon' (1892); 'The Life and Letters of Erasmus' (1892); English
Seamen in the Sixteenth Century' (1892); and 'The Council of Trent. '
'Shadows of the Clouds,' 'The Nemesis of Faith,' and 'The Two
Chiefs of Dunboy' are in the form of fiction; and though they -
especially the last-contain some charming descriptive passages, and
evince some of Froude's power of character sketching, they serve on
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group of people are of less absorbing interest to him than questions
of social and racial ethics. There is nothing more annoying than to
have an essayist stand behind a story-teller and interrupt him from
time to time with acute philosophical comments on ultimate causes.
The characters of Morty and Sylvester Sullivan are admirably con-
trasted Celtic types, but both they and the English Colonel Goring
are a trifle stagy and stiff in their joints. The murders of the two
chiefs, Morty Sullivan and Colonel Goring, are dramatically told; but
Froude's deficient sense of humor, at least of that quality of humor
which gives a subtle sense of congruity, results in an attempt to com-
bine the elements of the tale and the didactic society in impossible
proportions. He is an essayist and historian, not a novel-writer.
Froude stands before the English-reading public prominent in
three characteristics: First, as a technical prose artist, in which re-
gard he is entitled to be classed with Ruskin, Newman, and Pater;
less enthusiastic and elaborately ornamental than the first, less
musically and delicately fallacious than the second, and less self-
conscious and phrase-caressing than the third, but carrying a solider
burden of thought than all three. Second, as a historian of the mod-
ern school, which aims by reading the original records to produce
an independent view of historical periods. Third, as the most clear-
sighted and broad-minded of those whose position near the centre of
the Oxford movement and intimacy with the principal actors gave
them an insight into its inner nature.
There can be but one opinion of Froude as a master of English.
In some of his early work there are traces of the manner of Macau-
lay in the succession of short assertive sentences, most of which an
ordinary writer would group as limiting clauses about the main asser-
tion. This method gives a false appearance of vigor and definiteness;
it makes easy reading by relieving the mind from the necessity of
weighing the modifying propositions: but it is entirely unadapted to
nice modulations of thought. Froude very soon avoided the vices of
Macaulayism, and attained a narrative style which must be regarded
as the best in an age which has paid more attention than any other
to the art of telling a story. In descriptive historical narrative he is
unrivaled, because he is profoundly impressed not only with the dra-
matic qualities but with the real significance of a scene; unlike Macau-
lay, to whom the superficial theatrical elements appeal. A reading
of Macaulay's description of the trial of Warren Hastings, and
Froude's narrative of the killing of Thomas Becket or of the execu-
tion of Mary Queen of Scots, will bring out at once Froude's radical
superiority in both conception and execution.
This is not the place to debate the question of Froude's historical
accuracy, further than to remark that he was an industrious reader
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If a
of historical documents, and by nature a seeker after the truth.
profound conviction of the harmfulness of ecclesiasticism colored the
light with which he illuminated the records of the past, we must
remember that history is at best largely the impressions of historians;
and that if it be true that Froude does present one side, it is the
side on which the warnings to posterity are most distinctly inscribed.
A reading of the controversy between Froude and Freeman in the
calmer light of the present leads to the conclusion that the suppressio
veri with which Froude was charged is not a suggestio falsi, but an
artistic selection of the characteristic. He felt a certain contempt for
the minute and meaningless fidelity to the record, which is not writ-
ing history but editing documents. He possessed, too, among his
other literary powers, the rare one of being able to individualize the
man whose life he studies and of presenting the character so as to be
consistent and human. This power fills his history and sketch with
rare personalities. Thomas Becket, Henry III.
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Ancient and Modern
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
EDITOR
HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE, LUCIA GILBERT RUNKLE,
GEORGE H. WARNER
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
THIRTY VOLUMES
VOL. XI
NEW YORK
R. S. PEALE AND J. A. HILL
PUBLISHERS
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THE ADVISORY COUNCIL
CRAWFORD H. TOY, A. M. , LL. D. ,
Professor of Hebrew, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Mass.
THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY, LL. D. , L. H. D. ,
Professor of English in the Sheffield Scientific School of
YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, Conn.
WILLIAM M. SLOANE, PH. D. , L. H. D. ,
Professor of History and Political Science,
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Princeton, N. J.
BRANDER MATTHEWS, A. M. , LL. B. ,
Professor of Literature, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York City.
JAMES B. ANGELL, LL. D. .
President of the
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor, Mich.
WILLARD FISKE, A. M. , PH. D. ,
Late Professor of the Germanic and Scandinavian Languages
and Literatures,
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, N. Y.
EDWARD S. HOLDEN, A. M. , LL. D. ,
Director of the Lick Observatory, and Astronomer,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Berkeley, Cal.
ALCÉE FORTIER, LIT. D. ,
Professor of the Romance Languages,
TULANE UNIVERSITY, New Orleans, La.
WILLIAM P. TRENT, M. A. ,
Dean of the Department of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of
English and History,
UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH, Sewanee, Tenn.
PAUL SHOREY, PH. D. ,
Professor of Greek and Latin Literature,
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, Chicago, Ill.
WILLIAM T. HARRIS, LL. D. ,
United States Commissioner of Education,
BUREAU OF EDUCATION, Washington, D. C.
MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN, A. M. , LL. D. ,
Professor of Literature in the
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, Washington, D. C.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOL. XI
BY CHARLES FREDERICK JOHNSON
The Growth of England's Navy (English Seamen in the
Sixteenth Century')
The Death of Colonel Goring (Two Chiefs of Dunboy')
Scientific Method Applied to History (Short Studies on
Great Subjects')
HENRY B. FULLER
LIVED
1818-1894
The Death of Thomas Becket (same)
Character of Henry VIII. (History of England')
On a siding at a Railway Station (Short Studies on Great
Subjects')
1859-
At the Head of the March (With the Procession')
THOMAS FULLER
SARAH MARGARET FULLER (Marchioness Ossoli)
George Sand ('Memoirs')
Americans Abroad in Europe (At Home and Abroad')
A Character Sketch of Carlyle (Memoirs')
1810-1850
London (The Worthies of England')
Miscellaneous Sayings
1608-1661
The King's Children (The Worthies of England')
A Learned Lady (same)
Henry de Essex, Standard-Bearer to Henry II. (same)
The Good Schoolmaster (The Holy and Profane State')
On Books (same)
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ÉMILE GABORIAU
BENITO PEREZ GALDÓS
The Impostor and the Banker's Wife: The Robbery ('File
No. 113')
M. Lecoq's System (same)
FRANCIS GALTON
The First Night of a Famous Play (The Court of Charles
IV. ')
ARNE GARBORG
vi
Doña Perfecta's Daughter ('Doña Perfecta')
Above Stairs in a Royal Palace (La de Bringas')
BY WILLIAM HENRY BISHOP
HAMLIN GARLAND
LIVED
1835-1873
The Comparative Worth of Different Races (Hereditary
Genius')
ELIZABETH STEVENSON GASKELL
Our Society ('Cranford')
Visiting (same)
1845-
THEOPHILE GAUTIER
The Conflict of the Creeds (A Freethinker')
BY ROBERT SANDERSON
From The Marsh'
From The Dragon-Fly'
The Doves
The Pot of Flowers
1822-
A Summer Mood (Prairie Songs')
A Storm on Lake Michigan ('Rose of Dutcher's Coolly')
Prayer
The Poet and the Crowd
The First Smile of Spring
The Veterans (The Old Guard')
1851-
1860-
1810-1865
The Entry of Pharaoh into Thebes (The Romance of a
Mummy')
1811-1872
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6221
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JOHN GAY
EMANUEL VON GEIBEL
The Hare and Many Friends (Fables')
The Sick Man and the Angel (same)
The Juggler (same)
Sweet William's Farewell to Black-Eyed Susan
From What D'ye Call It? '
See'st Thou the Sea?
As it will Happen
Gondoliera
The Woodland
Onward
At Last the Daylight Fadeth
GESTA ROMANORUM
EDWARD GIBBON
AULUS GELLIUS
Second Century A. D.
From Attic Nights'; Origin and Plan of the Book; The
Vestal Virgins; The Secrets of the Senate; Plutarch
and his Slave: Discussion on One of Solon's Laws;
The Nature of Sight; Earliest Libraries; Realistic
Acting; The Athlete's End
·
Death of Julian
Fall of Rome
Silk
LIVED
1685-1732
Theodosius the Emperoure
Moralite
Ancelmus the Emperour
Moralite
How an Anchoress was Tempted by the Devil
Zenobia
Foundation of Constantinople
Character of Constantine
BY W. E. H. LECKY
1815-1884
1737-1794
Mahomet's Death and Character
The Alexandrian Library
Final Ruin of Rome
All from the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire>
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WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT
Captain Reece
The Yarn of the Nancy Bell
The Bishop of Rum-ti-foo
Gentle Alice Brown
The Captain and the Mermaids
RICHARD WATSON GILDER
All from the Bab Ballads'
Two Songs from The New Day'
"Rose-Dark the Solemn Sunset »
GIUSEPPE GIUSTI
The Celestial Passion
Non Sine Dolore
On the Life Mask of Abraham Lincoln
From The Great Remembrance'
Lullaby (Gingillino')
The Steam Guillotine
viii
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE
Macaulay (Gleanings of Past Years')
EDWIN LAWRENCE GODKIN
GOETHE
BY EDWARD DOWDEN
LIVED
The Indenture (same)
The Harper's Songs (same)
Mignon's Song (same)
Philina’s Song (same)
Prometheus
Wanderer's Night Songs
1836-
1844-
1809-1850
1809-
1831-
6373
The Duty of Criticism in a Democracy (Problems of
Modern Democracy')
From 'Faust,' Shelley's Translation
Scenes from 'Faust,' Bayard Taylor's Translation
Mignon's Love and Longing (Wilhelm Meister's Appren-
ticeship')
Wilhelm Meister's Introduction to Shakespeare (same)
Wilhelm Meister's Analysis of Hamlet (same)
1749-1832
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GOETHE-Continued:
The Elfin-King
From The Wanderer's Storm Song'
The Godlike
Solitude
Ergo Bibamus!
Alexis and Dora
Maxims and Reflections
Nature
NIKOLAI VASILIEVITCH GOGOL
CARLO GOLDONI
From The Inspector'
Old-Fashioned Gentry (Mirgorod ')
BY ISABEL F. HAPGOOD
1809-1852
Oblómof
LIVED
1707-1793
BY WILLIAM CRANSTON LAWTON
First Love and Parting (Memoirs of Carlo Goldoni')
The Origin of Masks in the Italian Comedy (same)
Purists and Pedantry (same)
A Poet's Old Age (same)
The Café
MEIR AAREN GOLDSCHMIDT
1819-1887
Assar and Mirjam (Love Stories from Many Countries')
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
IVAN ALEKSANDROVITCH GONCHARÓF
BY CHARLES MILLS GAYLEY
1728-1774
The Vicar's Family Become Ambitious (The Vicar of
Wakefield')
New Misfortunes: But Offenses are Easily Pardoned Where
There is Love at Bottom (same)
Pictures from The Deserted Village'
Contrasted National Types (The Traveller')
1812-
BY NATHAN HASKELL DOLE
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EDMUND GOSSE
THE BROTHERS DE GONCOURT
Edmond 1822-1896
Jules 1830-1870
Two Famous Men (Journal of the De Goncourts')
The Suicide (Sister Philomène ')
The Awakening (Renée Mauperin')
February in Rome
Desiderium
Lying in the Grass
RUDOLF VON GOTTSCHALL
Heinrich Heine (Portraits and Studies')
JOHN GOWER
X
Petronella (Confessio Amantis')
ULYSSES S. GRANT
HENRY GRATTAN
BY HAMLIN GARLAND
A Texan Experience (same)
The Surrender of General Lee (same)
THOMAS GRAY
LIVED
1849-
Early Life (Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant')
Grant's Courtship (same)
1823-
Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard
Ode on the Spring
On a Distant Prospect of Eton College
The Bard
1325? -1408
1822-1885
On the Character of Chatham
Of the Injustice of Disqualification of Catholics (Speech
in Parliament)
On the Downfall of Bonaparte (Speech in Parliament)
1746-1820
1716-1771
BY GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP
PAGE
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6571
6579
6593
6615
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THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY
BY TALCOTT WILLIAMS
On the Athenian Dead at Platæa (Simonides); On the
Lacedæmonian Dead at Platæa (Simonides); On a
Sleeping Satyr (Plato); A Poet's Epitaph (Simmias of
Thebes); Worship in Spring (Theætetus); Spring on
the Coast (Leonidas of Tarentum); A Young Hero's
Epitaph (Dioscorides); Love (Posidippus); Sorrow's
Barren Grave (Heracleitus); To a Coy Maiden (Ascle-
piades); The Emptied Quiver (Mnesalcus); the Tale
of Troy (Alpheus); Heaven Hath its Stars (Marcus
Argentarius); Pan of the Sea-Cliff (Archias); Ana-
creon's Grave (Antipater of Sidon); Rest at Noon
(Meleager); "In the Spring a Young Man's Fancy"
(Meleager); Meleager's Own Epitaph (Meleager); Epi-
logue (Philodemus); Doctor and Divinity (Nicarchus);
Love's Immortality (Strato); As the Flowers of the
Field (Strato); Summer Sailing (Antiphilus); The Great
Mysteries (Crinagoras); To Priapus of the Shore
(Mæcius); The Common Lot (Ammianus); "To-morrow,
and To-morrow" (Macedonius); The Palace Garden
(Arabius); The Young Wife (Julianus Ægyptius); A
Nameless Grave (Paulus Silentiarius); Resignation
(Joannes Barbucallus); The House of the Righteous
(Macedonius); Love's Ferriage (Agathias); On a Fowler
(Isidorus). Anonymous: Youth and Riches; The Sing-
ing Reed; First Love again Remembered; Slave and
Philosopher; Good-by to Childhood; Wishing; Hope
and Experience; The Service of God; The Pure in
Heart; The Water of Purity; Rose and Thorn; A
Life's Wandering
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LIST OF PORTRAITS
IN VOL. XI
James Anthony Froude
Margaret Fuller
Thomas Fuller
Hamlin Garland
Elizabeth Stevenson Gaskell
Théophile Gautier
John Gay
Emanuel von Geibel
Edward Gibbon
William Schwenck Gilbert
Richard Watson Gilder
William Ewart Gladstone
Edwin Lawrence Godkin
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Nikolai Vasilievitch Gogol
Carlo Goldoni
Meïr Aaren Goldschmidt
Oliver Goldsmith
Ivan Aleksandrovitch Goncharóf
Edmond de Goncourt
Rudolf von Gottschall
John Gower
Ulysses S. Grant
Henry Grattan
Thomas Gray
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JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE
(1818-1894)
BY CHARLES FREDERICK JOHNSON
AMES ANTHONY FROUDE, English historian and essayist, was
born April 23d, 1818, and died October 20th, 1894. His
father was a clergyman, and the son was sent to Westmin-
ster School and to Oriel College, Oxford. In 1842 he became a fellow
of Exeter, and two years later he was ordained a deacon; an office
which he did not formally lay down until many years later, although
his earliest publications, Shadows of the Clouds' and 'Nemesis of
Faith,' showed that he had come to hold - and what perhaps is more
to the point, dared to express, - views hardly
compatible with the character of a docile
and unreasoning neophyte.
J. A. FROUDE
These books were severely censured by
the authorities, and cost him-to the great
benefit of the world-an appointment he
had received of teacher in Tasmania. He
resigned his fellowship and took up the pro-
fession of letters, writing much for Fraser
and the Westminster, and becoming for a
short period the editor of the former. His
magnum opus is his 'History of England from
the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the
Spanish Armada,' in twelve volumes, from
1856 to 1870. His other principal publica-
tions are The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century' (1874);
'Cæsar (1879); 'Bunyan 1880); Thomas Carlyle (first forty years of
his life) (1882); Life in London' (1884); Short Studies on Great
Subjects (1882, four series); The Two Chiefs of Dunboy' (1889);
'The English in the West Indies (1889); The Divorce of Catharine
of Aragon' (1892); 'The Life and Letters of Erasmus' (1892); English
Seamen in the Sixteenth Century' (1892); and 'The Council of Trent. '
'Shadows of the Clouds,' 'The Nemesis of Faith,' and 'The Two
Chiefs of Dunboy' are in the form of fiction; and though they -
especially the last-contain some charming descriptive passages, and
evince some of Froude's power of character sketching, they serve on
the whole to prove that he was not a novelist. The fortunes of his
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group of people are of less absorbing interest to him than questions
of social and racial ethics. There is nothing more annoying than to
have an essayist stand behind a story-teller and interrupt him from
time to time with acute philosophical comments on ultimate causes.
The characters of Morty and Sylvester Sullivan are admirably con-
trasted Celtic types, but both they and the English Colonel Goring
are a trifle stagy and stiff in their joints. The murders of the two
chiefs, Morty Sullivan and Colonel Goring, are dramatically told; but
Froude's deficient sense of humor, at least of that quality of humor
which gives a subtle sense of congruity, results in an attempt to com-
bine the elements of the tale and the didactic society in impossible
proportions. He is an essayist and historian, not a novel-writer.
Froude stands before the English-reading public prominent in
three characteristics: First, as a technical prose artist, in which re-
gard he is entitled to be classed with Ruskin, Newman, and Pater;
less enthusiastic and elaborately ornamental than the first, less
musically and delicately fallacious than the second, and less self-
conscious and phrase-caressing than the third, but carrying a solider
burden of thought than all three. Second, as a historian of the mod-
ern school, which aims by reading the original records to produce
an independent view of historical periods. Third, as the most clear-
sighted and broad-minded of those whose position near the centre of
the Oxford movement and intimacy with the principal actors gave
them an insight into its inner nature.
There can be but one opinion of Froude as a master of English.
In some of his early work there are traces of the manner of Macau-
lay in the succession of short assertive sentences, most of which an
ordinary writer would group as limiting clauses about the main asser-
tion. This method gives a false appearance of vigor and definiteness;
it makes easy reading by relieving the mind from the necessity of
weighing the modifying propositions: but it is entirely unadapted to
nice modulations of thought. Froude very soon avoided the vices of
Macaulayism, and attained a narrative style which must be regarded
as the best in an age which has paid more attention than any other
to the art of telling a story. In descriptive historical narrative he is
unrivaled, because he is profoundly impressed not only with the dra-
matic qualities but with the real significance of a scene; unlike Macau-
lay, to whom the superficial theatrical elements appeal. A reading
of Macaulay's description of the trial of Warren Hastings, and
Froude's narrative of the killing of Thomas Becket or of the execu-
tion of Mary Queen of Scots, will bring out at once Froude's radical
superiority in both conception and execution.
This is not the place to debate the question of Froude's historical
accuracy, further than to remark that he was an industrious reader
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If a
of historical documents, and by nature a seeker after the truth.
profound conviction of the harmfulness of ecclesiasticism colored the
light with which he illuminated the records of the past, we must
remember that history is at best largely the impressions of historians;
and that if it be true that Froude does present one side, it is the
side on which the warnings to posterity are most distinctly inscribed.
A reading of the controversy between Froude and Freeman in the
calmer light of the present leads to the conclusion that the suppressio
veri with which Froude was charged is not a suggestio falsi, but an
artistic selection of the characteristic. He felt a certain contempt for
the minute and meaningless fidelity to the record, which is not writ-
ing history but editing documents. He possessed, too, among his
other literary powers, the rare one of being able to individualize the
man whose life he studies and of presenting the character so as to be
consistent and human. This power fills his history and sketch with
rare personalities. Thomas Becket, Henry III. , Henry VIII. , Queen
Catharine, Mary Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth, are more than his-
torical portraits in the ordinary sense: they are conceptions of indi-
viduals, vivified by the artistic sense. Whether or not they are true
to the originals as reflected in the contemporary documents, they are
at least human possibilities, and therefore truer than the distorted
automata that lie in state on the pages of some historians. A human
character is so exceedingly complex and so delicately balanced with
contradictory elements, that it is probable that no two persons ever
estimate it exactly alike. Besides, prominent historical personages
become in the popular imagination invested with exaggerated attri-
butes, and it is not likely that men will ever agree even as to which
of them was the hero and which the villain of the drama. It was to
be expected that Froude should be violently assailed by those who
accepted a traditional view of Henry VIII. and of Mary. It was
inevitable that he should differ from them, because he had more than
a view: he had a conception. His historical personages are certainly
possibilities, because they are human, and the traditional figures are
either monsters or saints; and humanity—at least Teutonic humanity
does not produce unadulterated saints nor unrelieved monsters.
While Froude's historical work has been criticized for lack of
minute accuracy in details, his books on Carlyle have been criticized
for the opposite fault of quoting too fully and literally; from letters
and journals, matter never intended for the public, and of a nature
not only to wound living persons but to create an erroneous impres-
sion of the writer. The habit of expressing himself in pithy and
pungent personalities seems to have been with Carlyle a sort of intel-
lectual exercise, and should not necessarily be taken as an index of
morose ill-temper. A very delicate literary tact was necessary to his
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literary executor, in selecting from the matter put in his hands that
which would combine to make a true picture of a crude and power-
ful genius without making him appear to the ordinary reader a
selfish, willful man. Froude's idea of the duty of an editor of con-
temporary biography seems to have been that it was limited to care-
ful publication of all the available material as mémoires pour servir.
Such miscellaneous printing may in the end serve truth, but at the
time it arouses resentment.
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Professor of English in the Sheffield Scientific School of
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JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOL. XI
BY CHARLES FREDERICK JOHNSON
The Growth of England's Navy (English Seamen in the
Sixteenth Century')
The Death of Colonel Goring (Two Chiefs of Dunboy')
Scientific Method Applied to History (Short Studies on
Great Subjects')
HENRY B. FULLER
LIVED
1818-1894
The Death of Thomas Becket (same)
Character of Henry VIII. (History of England')
On a siding at a Railway Station (Short Studies on Great
Subjects')
1859-
At the Head of the March (With the Procession')
THOMAS FULLER
SARAH MARGARET FULLER (Marchioness Ossoli)
George Sand ('Memoirs')
Americans Abroad in Europe (At Home and Abroad')
A Character Sketch of Carlyle (Memoirs')
1810-1850
London (The Worthies of England')
Miscellaneous Sayings
1608-1661
The King's Children (The Worthies of England')
A Learned Lady (same)
Henry de Essex, Standard-Bearer to Henry II. (same)
The Good Schoolmaster (The Holy and Profane State')
On Books (same)
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ÉMILE GABORIAU
BENITO PEREZ GALDÓS
The Impostor and the Banker's Wife: The Robbery ('File
No. 113')
M. Lecoq's System (same)
FRANCIS GALTON
The First Night of a Famous Play (The Court of Charles
IV. ')
ARNE GARBORG
vi
Doña Perfecta's Daughter ('Doña Perfecta')
Above Stairs in a Royal Palace (La de Bringas')
BY WILLIAM HENRY BISHOP
HAMLIN GARLAND
LIVED
1835-1873
The Comparative Worth of Different Races (Hereditary
Genius')
ELIZABETH STEVENSON GASKELL
Our Society ('Cranford')
Visiting (same)
1845-
THEOPHILE GAUTIER
The Conflict of the Creeds (A Freethinker')
BY ROBERT SANDERSON
From The Marsh'
From The Dragon-Fly'
The Doves
The Pot of Flowers
1822-
A Summer Mood (Prairie Songs')
A Storm on Lake Michigan ('Rose of Dutcher's Coolly')
Prayer
The Poet and the Crowd
The First Smile of Spring
The Veterans (The Old Guard')
1851-
1860-
1810-1865
The Entry of Pharaoh into Thebes (The Romance of a
Mummy')
1811-1872
PAGE
6137
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6174
6185
6195
6205
6221
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vii
JOHN GAY
EMANUEL VON GEIBEL
The Hare and Many Friends (Fables')
The Sick Man and the Angel (same)
The Juggler (same)
Sweet William's Farewell to Black-Eyed Susan
From What D'ye Call It? '
See'st Thou the Sea?
As it will Happen
Gondoliera
The Woodland
Onward
At Last the Daylight Fadeth
GESTA ROMANORUM
EDWARD GIBBON
AULUS GELLIUS
Second Century A. D.
From Attic Nights'; Origin and Plan of the Book; The
Vestal Virgins; The Secrets of the Senate; Plutarch
and his Slave: Discussion on One of Solon's Laws;
The Nature of Sight; Earliest Libraries; Realistic
Acting; The Athlete's End
·
Death of Julian
Fall of Rome
Silk
LIVED
1685-1732
Theodosius the Emperoure
Moralite
Ancelmus the Emperour
Moralite
How an Anchoress was Tempted by the Devil
Zenobia
Foundation of Constantinople
Character of Constantine
BY W. E. H. LECKY
1815-1884
1737-1794
Mahomet's Death and Character
The Alexandrian Library
Final Ruin of Rome
All from the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire>
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WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT
Captain Reece
The Yarn of the Nancy Bell
The Bishop of Rum-ti-foo
Gentle Alice Brown
The Captain and the Mermaids
RICHARD WATSON GILDER
All from the Bab Ballads'
Two Songs from The New Day'
"Rose-Dark the Solemn Sunset »
GIUSEPPE GIUSTI
The Celestial Passion
Non Sine Dolore
On the Life Mask of Abraham Lincoln
From The Great Remembrance'
Lullaby (Gingillino')
The Steam Guillotine
viii
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE
Macaulay (Gleanings of Past Years')
EDWIN LAWRENCE GODKIN
GOETHE
BY EDWARD DOWDEN
LIVED
The Indenture (same)
The Harper's Songs (same)
Mignon's Song (same)
Philina’s Song (same)
Prometheus
Wanderer's Night Songs
1836-
1844-
1809-1850
1809-
1831-
6373
The Duty of Criticism in a Democracy (Problems of
Modern Democracy')
From 'Faust,' Shelley's Translation
Scenes from 'Faust,' Bayard Taylor's Translation
Mignon's Love and Longing (Wilhelm Meister's Appren-
ticeship')
Wilhelm Meister's Introduction to Shakespeare (same)
Wilhelm Meister's Analysis of Hamlet (same)
1749-1832
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ix
GOETHE-Continued:
The Elfin-King
From The Wanderer's Storm Song'
The Godlike
Solitude
Ergo Bibamus!
Alexis and Dora
Maxims and Reflections
Nature
NIKOLAI VASILIEVITCH GOGOL
CARLO GOLDONI
From The Inspector'
Old-Fashioned Gentry (Mirgorod ')
BY ISABEL F. HAPGOOD
1809-1852
Oblómof
LIVED
1707-1793
BY WILLIAM CRANSTON LAWTON
First Love and Parting (Memoirs of Carlo Goldoni')
The Origin of Masks in the Italian Comedy (same)
Purists and Pedantry (same)
A Poet's Old Age (same)
The Café
MEIR AAREN GOLDSCHMIDT
1819-1887
Assar and Mirjam (Love Stories from Many Countries')
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
IVAN ALEKSANDROVITCH GONCHARÓF
BY CHARLES MILLS GAYLEY
1728-1774
The Vicar's Family Become Ambitious (The Vicar of
Wakefield')
New Misfortunes: But Offenses are Easily Pardoned Where
There is Love at Bottom (same)
Pictures from The Deserted Village'
Contrasted National Types (The Traveller')
1812-
BY NATHAN HASKELL DOLE
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6475
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EDMUND GOSSE
THE BROTHERS DE GONCOURT
Edmond 1822-1896
Jules 1830-1870
Two Famous Men (Journal of the De Goncourts')
The Suicide (Sister Philomène ')
The Awakening (Renée Mauperin')
February in Rome
Desiderium
Lying in the Grass
RUDOLF VON GOTTSCHALL
Heinrich Heine (Portraits and Studies')
JOHN GOWER
X
Petronella (Confessio Amantis')
ULYSSES S. GRANT
HENRY GRATTAN
BY HAMLIN GARLAND
A Texan Experience (same)
The Surrender of General Lee (same)
THOMAS GRAY
LIVED
1849-
Early Life (Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant')
Grant's Courtship (same)
1823-
Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard
Ode on the Spring
On a Distant Prospect of Eton College
The Bard
1325? -1408
1822-1885
On the Character of Chatham
Of the Injustice of Disqualification of Catholics (Speech
in Parliament)
On the Downfall of Bonaparte (Speech in Parliament)
1746-1820
1716-1771
BY GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP
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xi
THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY
BY TALCOTT WILLIAMS
On the Athenian Dead at Platæa (Simonides); On the
Lacedæmonian Dead at Platæa (Simonides); On a
Sleeping Satyr (Plato); A Poet's Epitaph (Simmias of
Thebes); Worship in Spring (Theætetus); Spring on
the Coast (Leonidas of Tarentum); A Young Hero's
Epitaph (Dioscorides); Love (Posidippus); Sorrow's
Barren Grave (Heracleitus); To a Coy Maiden (Ascle-
piades); The Emptied Quiver (Mnesalcus); the Tale
of Troy (Alpheus); Heaven Hath its Stars (Marcus
Argentarius); Pan of the Sea-Cliff (Archias); Ana-
creon's Grave (Antipater of Sidon); Rest at Noon
(Meleager); "In the Spring a Young Man's Fancy"
(Meleager); Meleager's Own Epitaph (Meleager); Epi-
logue (Philodemus); Doctor and Divinity (Nicarchus);
Love's Immortality (Strato); As the Flowers of the
Field (Strato); Summer Sailing (Antiphilus); The Great
Mysteries (Crinagoras); To Priapus of the Shore
(Mæcius); The Common Lot (Ammianus); "To-morrow,
and To-morrow" (Macedonius); The Palace Garden
(Arabius); The Young Wife (Julianus Ægyptius); A
Nameless Grave (Paulus Silentiarius); Resignation
(Joannes Barbucallus); The House of the Righteous
(Macedonius); Love's Ferriage (Agathias); On a Fowler
(Isidorus). Anonymous: Youth and Riches; The Sing-
ing Reed; First Love again Remembered; Slave and
Philosopher; Good-by to Childhood; Wishing; Hope
and Experience; The Service of God; The Pure in
Heart; The Water of Purity; Rose and Thorn; A
Life's Wandering
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LIST OF PORTRAITS
IN VOL. XI
James Anthony Froude
Margaret Fuller
Thomas Fuller
Hamlin Garland
Elizabeth Stevenson Gaskell
Théophile Gautier
John Gay
Emanuel von Geibel
Edward Gibbon
William Schwenck Gilbert
Richard Watson Gilder
William Ewart Gladstone
Edwin Lawrence Godkin
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Nikolai Vasilievitch Gogol
Carlo Goldoni
Meïr Aaren Goldschmidt
Oliver Goldsmith
Ivan Aleksandrovitch Goncharóf
Edmond de Goncourt
Rudolf von Gottschall
John Gower
Ulysses S. Grant
Henry Grattan
Thomas Gray
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JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE
(1818-1894)
BY CHARLES FREDERICK JOHNSON
AMES ANTHONY FROUDE, English historian and essayist, was
born April 23d, 1818, and died October 20th, 1894. His
father was a clergyman, and the son was sent to Westmin-
ster School and to Oriel College, Oxford. In 1842 he became a fellow
of Exeter, and two years later he was ordained a deacon; an office
which he did not formally lay down until many years later, although
his earliest publications, Shadows of the Clouds' and 'Nemesis of
Faith,' showed that he had come to hold - and what perhaps is more
to the point, dared to express, - views hardly
compatible with the character of a docile
and unreasoning neophyte.
J. A. FROUDE
These books were severely censured by
the authorities, and cost him-to the great
benefit of the world-an appointment he
had received of teacher in Tasmania. He
resigned his fellowship and took up the pro-
fession of letters, writing much for Fraser
and the Westminster, and becoming for a
short period the editor of the former. His
magnum opus is his 'History of England from
the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the
Spanish Armada,' in twelve volumes, from
1856 to 1870. His other principal publica-
tions are The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century' (1874);
'Cæsar (1879); 'Bunyan 1880); Thomas Carlyle (first forty years of
his life) (1882); Life in London' (1884); Short Studies on Great
Subjects (1882, four series); The Two Chiefs of Dunboy' (1889);
'The English in the West Indies (1889); The Divorce of Catharine
of Aragon' (1892); 'The Life and Letters of Erasmus' (1892); English
Seamen in the Sixteenth Century' (1892); and 'The Council of Trent. '
'Shadows of the Clouds,' 'The Nemesis of Faith,' and 'The Two
Chiefs of Dunboy' are in the form of fiction; and though they -
especially the last-contain some charming descriptive passages, and
evince some of Froude's power of character sketching, they serve on
the whole to prove that he was not a novelist. The fortunes of his
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JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE
group of people are of less absorbing interest to him than questions
of social and racial ethics. There is nothing more annoying than to
have an essayist stand behind a story-teller and interrupt him from
time to time with acute philosophical comments on ultimate causes.
The characters of Morty and Sylvester Sullivan are admirably con-
trasted Celtic types, but both they and the English Colonel Goring
are a trifle stagy and stiff in their joints. The murders of the two
chiefs, Morty Sullivan and Colonel Goring, are dramatically told; but
Froude's deficient sense of humor, at least of that quality of humor
which gives a subtle sense of congruity, results in an attempt to com-
bine the elements of the tale and the didactic society in impossible
proportions. He is an essayist and historian, not a novel-writer.
Froude stands before the English-reading public prominent in
three characteristics: First, as a technical prose artist, in which re-
gard he is entitled to be classed with Ruskin, Newman, and Pater;
less enthusiastic and elaborately ornamental than the first, less
musically and delicately fallacious than the second, and less self-
conscious and phrase-caressing than the third, but carrying a solider
burden of thought than all three. Second, as a historian of the mod-
ern school, which aims by reading the original records to produce
an independent view of historical periods. Third, as the most clear-
sighted and broad-minded of those whose position near the centre of
the Oxford movement and intimacy with the principal actors gave
them an insight into its inner nature.
There can be but one opinion of Froude as a master of English.
In some of his early work there are traces of the manner of Macau-
lay in the succession of short assertive sentences, most of which an
ordinary writer would group as limiting clauses about the main asser-
tion. This method gives a false appearance of vigor and definiteness;
it makes easy reading by relieving the mind from the necessity of
weighing the modifying propositions: but it is entirely unadapted to
nice modulations of thought. Froude very soon avoided the vices of
Macaulayism, and attained a narrative style which must be regarded
as the best in an age which has paid more attention than any other
to the art of telling a story. In descriptive historical narrative he is
unrivaled, because he is profoundly impressed not only with the dra-
matic qualities but with the real significance of a scene; unlike Macau-
lay, to whom the superficial theatrical elements appeal. A reading
of Macaulay's description of the trial of Warren Hastings, and
Froude's narrative of the killing of Thomas Becket or of the execu-
tion of Mary Queen of Scots, will bring out at once Froude's radical
superiority in both conception and execution.
This is not the place to debate the question of Froude's historical
accuracy, further than to remark that he was an industrious reader
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6061
If a
of historical documents, and by nature a seeker after the truth.
profound conviction of the harmfulness of ecclesiasticism colored the
light with which he illuminated the records of the past, we must
remember that history is at best largely the impressions of historians;
and that if it be true that Froude does present one side, it is the
side on which the warnings to posterity are most distinctly inscribed.
A reading of the controversy between Froude and Freeman in the
calmer light of the present leads to the conclusion that the suppressio
veri with which Froude was charged is not a suggestio falsi, but an
artistic selection of the characteristic. He felt a certain contempt for
the minute and meaningless fidelity to the record, which is not writ-
ing history but editing documents. He possessed, too, among his
other literary powers, the rare one of being able to individualize the
man whose life he studies and of presenting the character so as to be
consistent and human. This power fills his history and sketch with
rare personalities. Thomas Becket, Henry III.
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CRAWFORD H. TOY, A. M. , LL. D. ,
Professor of Hebrew, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Mass.
THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY, LL. D. , L. H. D. ,
Professor of English in the Sheffield Scientific School of
YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, Conn.
WILLIAM M. SLOANE, PH. D. , L. H. D. ,
Professor of History and Political Science,
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Princeton, N. J.
BRANDER MATTHEWS, A. M. , LL. B. ,
Professor of Literature, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York City.
JAMES B. ANGELL, LL. D. .
President of the
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WILLARD FISKE, A. M. , PH. D. ,
Late Professor of the Germanic and Scandinavian Languages
and Literatures,
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, N. Y.
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Director of the Lick Observatory, and Astronomer,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Berkeley, Cal.
ALCÉE FORTIER, LIT. D. ,
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Dean of the Department of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of
English and History,
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JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOL. XI
BY CHARLES FREDERICK JOHNSON
The Growth of England's Navy (English Seamen in the
Sixteenth Century')
The Death of Colonel Goring (Two Chiefs of Dunboy')
Scientific Method Applied to History (Short Studies on
Great Subjects')
HENRY B. FULLER
LIVED
1818-1894
The Death of Thomas Becket (same)
Character of Henry VIII. (History of England')
On a siding at a Railway Station (Short Studies on Great
Subjects')
1859-
At the Head of the March (With the Procession')
THOMAS FULLER
SARAH MARGARET FULLER (Marchioness Ossoli)
George Sand ('Memoirs')
Americans Abroad in Europe (At Home and Abroad')
A Character Sketch of Carlyle (Memoirs')
1810-1850
London (The Worthies of England')
Miscellaneous Sayings
1608-1661
The King's Children (The Worthies of England')
A Learned Lady (same)
Henry de Essex, Standard-Bearer to Henry II. (same)
The Good Schoolmaster (The Holy and Profane State')
On Books (same)
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ÉMILE GABORIAU
BENITO PEREZ GALDÓS
The Impostor and the Banker's Wife: The Robbery ('File
No. 113')
M. Lecoq's System (same)
FRANCIS GALTON
The First Night of a Famous Play (The Court of Charles
IV. ')
ARNE GARBORG
vi
Doña Perfecta's Daughter ('Doña Perfecta')
Above Stairs in a Royal Palace (La de Bringas')
BY WILLIAM HENRY BISHOP
HAMLIN GARLAND
LIVED
1835-1873
The Comparative Worth of Different Races (Hereditary
Genius')
ELIZABETH STEVENSON GASKELL
Our Society ('Cranford')
Visiting (same)
1845-
THEOPHILE GAUTIER
The Conflict of the Creeds (A Freethinker')
BY ROBERT SANDERSON
From The Marsh'
From The Dragon-Fly'
The Doves
The Pot of Flowers
1822-
A Summer Mood (Prairie Songs')
A Storm on Lake Michigan ('Rose of Dutcher's Coolly')
Prayer
The Poet and the Crowd
The First Smile of Spring
The Veterans (The Old Guard')
1851-
1860-
1810-1865
The Entry of Pharaoh into Thebes (The Romance of a
Mummy')
1811-1872
PAGE
6137
6153
6174
6185
6195
6205
6221
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vii
JOHN GAY
EMANUEL VON GEIBEL
The Hare and Many Friends (Fables')
The Sick Man and the Angel (same)
The Juggler (same)
Sweet William's Farewell to Black-Eyed Susan
From What D'ye Call It? '
See'st Thou the Sea?
As it will Happen
Gondoliera
The Woodland
Onward
At Last the Daylight Fadeth
GESTA ROMANORUM
EDWARD GIBBON
AULUS GELLIUS
Second Century A. D.
From Attic Nights'; Origin and Plan of the Book; The
Vestal Virgins; The Secrets of the Senate; Plutarch
and his Slave: Discussion on One of Solon's Laws;
The Nature of Sight; Earliest Libraries; Realistic
Acting; The Athlete's End
·
Death of Julian
Fall of Rome
Silk
LIVED
1685-1732
Theodosius the Emperoure
Moralite
Ancelmus the Emperour
Moralite
How an Anchoress was Tempted by the Devil
Zenobia
Foundation of Constantinople
Character of Constantine
BY W. E. H. LECKY
1815-1884
1737-1794
Mahomet's Death and Character
The Alexandrian Library
Final Ruin of Rome
All from the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire>
PAGE
6237
6248
6253
6261
6271
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WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT
Captain Reece
The Yarn of the Nancy Bell
The Bishop of Rum-ti-foo
Gentle Alice Brown
The Captain and the Mermaids
RICHARD WATSON GILDER
All from the Bab Ballads'
Two Songs from The New Day'
"Rose-Dark the Solemn Sunset »
GIUSEPPE GIUSTI
The Celestial Passion
Non Sine Dolore
On the Life Mask of Abraham Lincoln
From The Great Remembrance'
Lullaby (Gingillino')
The Steam Guillotine
viii
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE
Macaulay (Gleanings of Past Years')
EDWIN LAWRENCE GODKIN
GOETHE
BY EDWARD DOWDEN
LIVED
The Indenture (same)
The Harper's Songs (same)
Mignon's Song (same)
Philina’s Song (same)
Prometheus
Wanderer's Night Songs
1836-
1844-
1809-1850
1809-
1831-
6373
The Duty of Criticism in a Democracy (Problems of
Modern Democracy')
From 'Faust,' Shelley's Translation
Scenes from 'Faust,' Bayard Taylor's Translation
Mignon's Love and Longing (Wilhelm Meister's Appren-
ticeship')
Wilhelm Meister's Introduction to Shakespeare (same)
Wilhelm Meister's Analysis of Hamlet (same)
1749-1832
PAGE
6333
6347
6355
. 6359
6385
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ix
GOETHE-Continued:
The Elfin-King
From The Wanderer's Storm Song'
The Godlike
Solitude
Ergo Bibamus!
Alexis and Dora
Maxims and Reflections
Nature
NIKOLAI VASILIEVITCH GOGOL
CARLO GOLDONI
From The Inspector'
Old-Fashioned Gentry (Mirgorod ')
BY ISABEL F. HAPGOOD
1809-1852
Oblómof
LIVED
1707-1793
BY WILLIAM CRANSTON LAWTON
First Love and Parting (Memoirs of Carlo Goldoni')
The Origin of Masks in the Italian Comedy (same)
Purists and Pedantry (same)
A Poet's Old Age (same)
The Café
MEIR AAREN GOLDSCHMIDT
1819-1887
Assar and Mirjam (Love Stories from Many Countries')
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
IVAN ALEKSANDROVITCH GONCHARÓF
BY CHARLES MILLS GAYLEY
1728-1774
The Vicar's Family Become Ambitious (The Vicar of
Wakefield')
New Misfortunes: But Offenses are Easily Pardoned Where
There is Love at Bottom (same)
Pictures from The Deserted Village'
Contrasted National Types (The Traveller')
1812-
BY NATHAN HASKELL DOLE
PAGE
6455
6475
6493
6501
6533
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EDMUND GOSSE
THE BROTHERS DE GONCOURT
Edmond 1822-1896
Jules 1830-1870
Two Famous Men (Journal of the De Goncourts')
The Suicide (Sister Philomène ')
The Awakening (Renée Mauperin')
February in Rome
Desiderium
Lying in the Grass
RUDOLF VON GOTTSCHALL
Heinrich Heine (Portraits and Studies')
JOHN GOWER
X
Petronella (Confessio Amantis')
ULYSSES S. GRANT
HENRY GRATTAN
BY HAMLIN GARLAND
A Texan Experience (same)
The Surrender of General Lee (same)
THOMAS GRAY
LIVED
1849-
Early Life (Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant')
Grant's Courtship (same)
1823-
Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard
Ode on the Spring
On a Distant Prospect of Eton College
The Bard
1325? -1408
1822-1885
On the Character of Chatham
Of the Injustice of Disqualification of Catholics (Speech
in Parliament)
On the Downfall of Bonaparte (Speech in Parliament)
1746-1820
1716-1771
BY GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP
PAGE
6549
6565
6571
6579
6593
6615
6623
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xi
THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY
BY TALCOTT WILLIAMS
On the Athenian Dead at Platæa (Simonides); On the
Lacedæmonian Dead at Platæa (Simonides); On a
Sleeping Satyr (Plato); A Poet's Epitaph (Simmias of
Thebes); Worship in Spring (Theætetus); Spring on
the Coast (Leonidas of Tarentum); A Young Hero's
Epitaph (Dioscorides); Love (Posidippus); Sorrow's
Barren Grave (Heracleitus); To a Coy Maiden (Ascle-
piades); The Emptied Quiver (Mnesalcus); the Tale
of Troy (Alpheus); Heaven Hath its Stars (Marcus
Argentarius); Pan of the Sea-Cliff (Archias); Ana-
creon's Grave (Antipater of Sidon); Rest at Noon
(Meleager); "In the Spring a Young Man's Fancy"
(Meleager); Meleager's Own Epitaph (Meleager); Epi-
logue (Philodemus); Doctor and Divinity (Nicarchus);
Love's Immortality (Strato); As the Flowers of the
Field (Strato); Summer Sailing (Antiphilus); The Great
Mysteries (Crinagoras); To Priapus of the Shore
(Mæcius); The Common Lot (Ammianus); "To-morrow,
and To-morrow" (Macedonius); The Palace Garden
(Arabius); The Young Wife (Julianus Ægyptius); A
Nameless Grave (Paulus Silentiarius); Resignation
(Joannes Barbucallus); The House of the Righteous
(Macedonius); Love's Ferriage (Agathias); On a Fowler
(Isidorus). Anonymous: Youth and Riches; The Sing-
ing Reed; First Love again Remembered; Slave and
Philosopher; Good-by to Childhood; Wishing; Hope
and Experience; The Service of God; The Pure in
Heart; The Water of Purity; Rose and Thorn; A
Life's Wandering
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LIST OF PORTRAITS
IN VOL. XI
James Anthony Froude
Margaret Fuller
Thomas Fuller
Hamlin Garland
Elizabeth Stevenson Gaskell
Théophile Gautier
John Gay
Emanuel von Geibel
Edward Gibbon
William Schwenck Gilbert
Richard Watson Gilder
William Ewart Gladstone
Edwin Lawrence Godkin
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Nikolai Vasilievitch Gogol
Carlo Goldoni
Meïr Aaren Goldschmidt
Oliver Goldsmith
Ivan Aleksandrovitch Goncharóf
Edmond de Goncourt
Rudolf von Gottschall
John Gower
Ulysses S. Grant
Henry Grattan
Thomas Gray
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JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE
(1818-1894)
BY CHARLES FREDERICK JOHNSON
AMES ANTHONY FROUDE, English historian and essayist, was
born April 23d, 1818, and died October 20th, 1894. His
father was a clergyman, and the son was sent to Westmin-
ster School and to Oriel College, Oxford. In 1842 he became a fellow
of Exeter, and two years later he was ordained a deacon; an office
which he did not formally lay down until many years later, although
his earliest publications, Shadows of the Clouds' and 'Nemesis of
Faith,' showed that he had come to hold - and what perhaps is more
to the point, dared to express, - views hardly
compatible with the character of a docile
and unreasoning neophyte.
J. A. FROUDE
These books were severely censured by
the authorities, and cost him-to the great
benefit of the world-an appointment he
had received of teacher in Tasmania. He
resigned his fellowship and took up the pro-
fession of letters, writing much for Fraser
and the Westminster, and becoming for a
short period the editor of the former. His
magnum opus is his 'History of England from
the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the
Spanish Armada,' in twelve volumes, from
1856 to 1870. His other principal publica-
tions are The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century' (1874);
'Cæsar (1879); 'Bunyan 1880); Thomas Carlyle (first forty years of
his life) (1882); Life in London' (1884); Short Studies on Great
Subjects (1882, four series); The Two Chiefs of Dunboy' (1889);
'The English in the West Indies (1889); The Divorce of Catharine
of Aragon' (1892); 'The Life and Letters of Erasmus' (1892); English
Seamen in the Sixteenth Century' (1892); and 'The Council of Trent. '
'Shadows of the Clouds,' 'The Nemesis of Faith,' and 'The Two
Chiefs of Dunboy' are in the form of fiction; and though they -
especially the last-contain some charming descriptive passages, and
evince some of Froude's power of character sketching, they serve on
the whole to prove that he was not a novelist. The fortunes of his
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group of people are of less absorbing interest to him than questions
of social and racial ethics. There is nothing more annoying than to
have an essayist stand behind a story-teller and interrupt him from
time to time with acute philosophical comments on ultimate causes.
The characters of Morty and Sylvester Sullivan are admirably con-
trasted Celtic types, but both they and the English Colonel Goring
are a trifle stagy and stiff in their joints. The murders of the two
chiefs, Morty Sullivan and Colonel Goring, are dramatically told; but
Froude's deficient sense of humor, at least of that quality of humor
which gives a subtle sense of congruity, results in an attempt to com-
bine the elements of the tale and the didactic society in impossible
proportions. He is an essayist and historian, not a novel-writer.
Froude stands before the English-reading public prominent in
three characteristics: First, as a technical prose artist, in which re-
gard he is entitled to be classed with Ruskin, Newman, and Pater;
less enthusiastic and elaborately ornamental than the first, less
musically and delicately fallacious than the second, and less self-
conscious and phrase-caressing than the third, but carrying a solider
burden of thought than all three. Second, as a historian of the mod-
ern school, which aims by reading the original records to produce
an independent view of historical periods. Third, as the most clear-
sighted and broad-minded of those whose position near the centre of
the Oxford movement and intimacy with the principal actors gave
them an insight into its inner nature.
There can be but one opinion of Froude as a master of English.
In some of his early work there are traces of the manner of Macau-
lay in the succession of short assertive sentences, most of which an
ordinary writer would group as limiting clauses about the main asser-
tion. This method gives a false appearance of vigor and definiteness;
it makes easy reading by relieving the mind from the necessity of
weighing the modifying propositions: but it is entirely unadapted to
nice modulations of thought. Froude very soon avoided the vices of
Macaulayism, and attained a narrative style which must be regarded
as the best in an age which has paid more attention than any other
to the art of telling a story. In descriptive historical narrative he is
unrivaled, because he is profoundly impressed not only with the dra-
matic qualities but with the real significance of a scene; unlike Macau-
lay, to whom the superficial theatrical elements appeal. A reading
of Macaulay's description of the trial of Warren Hastings, and
Froude's narrative of the killing of Thomas Becket or of the execu-
tion of Mary Queen of Scots, will bring out at once Froude's radical
superiority in both conception and execution.
This is not the place to debate the question of Froude's historical
accuracy, further than to remark that he was an industrious reader
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of historical documents, and by nature a seeker after the truth.
profound conviction of the harmfulness of ecclesiasticism colored the
light with which he illuminated the records of the past, we must
remember that history is at best largely the impressions of historians;
and that if it be true that Froude does present one side, it is the
side on which the warnings to posterity are most distinctly inscribed.
A reading of the controversy between Froude and Freeman in the
calmer light of the present leads to the conclusion that the suppressio
veri with which Froude was charged is not a suggestio falsi, but an
artistic selection of the characteristic. He felt a certain contempt for
the minute and meaningless fidelity to the record, which is not writ-
ing history but editing documents. He possessed, too, among his
other literary powers, the rare one of being able to individualize the
man whose life he studies and of presenting the character so as to be
consistent and human. This power fills his history and sketch with
rare personalities. Thomas Becket, Henry III. , Henry VIII. , Queen
Catharine, Mary Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth, are more than his-
torical portraits in the ordinary sense: they are conceptions of indi-
viduals, vivified by the artistic sense. Whether or not they are true
to the originals as reflected in the contemporary documents, they are
at least human possibilities, and therefore truer than the distorted
automata that lie in state on the pages of some historians. A human
character is so exceedingly complex and so delicately balanced with
contradictory elements, that it is probable that no two persons ever
estimate it exactly alike. Besides, prominent historical personages
become in the popular imagination invested with exaggerated attri-
butes, and it is not likely that men will ever agree even as to which
of them was the hero and which the villain of the drama. It was to
be expected that Froude should be violently assailed by those who
accepted a traditional view of Henry VIII. and of Mary. It was
inevitable that he should differ from them, because he had more than
a view: he had a conception. His historical personages are certainly
possibilities, because they are human, and the traditional figures are
either monsters or saints; and humanity—at least Teutonic humanity
does not produce unadulterated saints nor unrelieved monsters.
While Froude's historical work has been criticized for lack of
minute accuracy in details, his books on Carlyle have been criticized
for the opposite fault of quoting too fully and literally; from letters
and journals, matter never intended for the public, and of a nature
not only to wound living persons but to create an erroneous impres-
sion of the writer. The habit of expressing himself in pithy and
pungent personalities seems to have been with Carlyle a sort of intel-
lectual exercise, and should not necessarily be taken as an index of
morose ill-temper. A very delicate literary tact was necessary to his
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literary executor, in selecting from the matter put in his hands that
which would combine to make a true picture of a crude and power-
ful genius without making him appear to the ordinary reader a
selfish, willful man. Froude's idea of the duty of an editor of con-
temporary biography seems to have been that it was limited to care-
ful publication of all the available material as mémoires pour servir.
Such miscellaneous printing may in the end serve truth, but at the
time it arouses resentment.
