stories and caricatures, I have seen nothing, or at least not on American soil.' It was a peculiar satisfaction to him to find general sympathy in America with his views on affairs in South-Eastern Europe. 'The United States,' he says, in the Preface to his American lectures, 'so far as my experience goes, contain no native partisan of either Turk or Austrian. That such is the case forms one of the many ties which bind me to a land to my sojourn in which I shall always look back as one of the brightest times of my life.' And he adds, 'I cannot let this little book go forth from an American press without expressing my deep-felt thanks for the kindness which I received wherever I went, from New York to St. Louis. But where every memory is pleasant I cannot help picking out a few memories which are the pleasantest of all. While giving my best thanks to my friends everywhere, I cannot help adding a small special tribute to my friends at Ithaca and at New Haven.'

CORRESPONDENCE (1879-1882).

TO PROFESSOR BOYD DAWKINS.

April 27, 1879.

Are you going to be Professor in the 'Victoria University'?? Ward sent me a paper about it, and I wrote back that I should count any connexion with the University of Manchester an

'Philadelphia: Porter and Coates.

2 He had been Professor of Geology and Palaeontology since 1874 in Owens College, Manchester. The project for establishing a University at Manchester was now under consideration. Freeman wished the University to be called, like the old Universities, after the name of the town in which it was seated, not after the reigning sovereign.

honour, but that in a Victoria University I should decline to be anything, from Chancellor to German Bedel. Who's the flunkey? Why don't they call it Ben Dizzy University at once? It would most likely pay better. 'Tis a state of mind into which I can't throw myself dramatically.

TO MISS EDITH THOMPSON.

Somerleaze, May 27, 1879.

. . Here is Paul Friedmann's specimen from Simancas. It needs no great knowledge of Spanish to see that they are not the same1.

It is very odd, as you say, people seem to think that it does

not matter whether a man is accurate or not. That comes of so many people reading, and getting a kind of half-knowledge and half-interest in what they read. In Germany the whole thing would not get beyond the Gelehrten-of course a much larger class there than here-and the Gelehrten would soon see to Froude. Which is the better state of things? There is something to be said on both sides. Pauli could not understand why I took the trouble to show up Thierry, whom nobody now believed in. Doubtless not he or Waitz or Stubbs; but plenty of others, among them one Lania who writes the reign of Good Billy in the Rum-Welsh tongue. He gets all his notions of England from Thierry, and very odd notions they are.

. . . It is ruled that I am not to go into Gaul by that part which her on Sumorsaetan is the nearest. We are to cross from Hampton to Newhaven, and so to Honfleur, and about through the Oximois and on to Le Mans (Sýrw ó‘Hλías), and back again by the Belesme country and the Vexin, going aside to find out where it was that Conan was pitched from the tower of Rouen 3. Then do off the Red man, the first recorded 'officer and gentleman,' and then all hands to the other Billies, Bad and Good, and the Rogers that were afore them.

3 By the hands of Henry I. See the account in Reign of William Rufus, i. 259.

TO THE SAME.

Lisieux, June 24, 1879.

Here I am again beyond sea. . . . Since I left home, I have been at Oxford for Trinity Monday. There I tarried with Humphry Ward, and was much impressed by Mrs. Ward's (née Mary Arnold) wisdom and skill in the West-Goths. We had a wonderfully big Trinity Monday, with Lord Selborne and others, but not His Eminence.

(Alençon, June 27.)-I exchanged divers civilities with the new President; but it seemed passing strange to see the old one there as a guest. Thence I went to stay some days with Pinder at Greys; thence to London, chiefly for the openingshould I say the inauguration ?—of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Study got up by Sayce and George Macmillan. I was some days alone in Bryce's house, a state of things which I find that he looks upon as the extreme of happiness, but which liketh me not. B. says you have such perfect freedom; I say that you have such an excess of freedom that you know not how to use it. I am, as you know well, a timid and clinging body, and need somebody to guide me. I saw something of Macmillan, Roundell and his wife-R. had just been chosen as a candidate at Grantham-and Johnny and his wife. Johnny will have to live abroad, and only visit England in the summer. Gladstone asked me to breakfast yesterday, but I could not get to Harley Street out of Lexovian parts. From London with James Parker to Fyfield, né Fifhide, the house of Godric, touching which you were to have written a tale. You may remember Kingston Bagpuze1, the lordship of Thurkill (N. B. Mrs. Parker's dog so-called is dead, but Godric my godson abideth); I propose to transfer the name with a slight change of spelling to the neighbouring parish of Longworth, where the parson did bag the pews-I don't mean that he stole them, as he paid for them 3s. 10d. per pew-which were taken from another church, and set them up in his own. At Fyfield we were joined by Fowler (J.T. of Durham, kinsman of Logic *),

1 See Norman Conquest, iii. 743.

2 Viz. of Dr. Fowler, the Professor, at that time, of Logic at Oxford.

and on Monday night crossed from Hampton to NewhavenI hope you have sixteenth century geography enough to follow that course. Thence to Honfleur and the unknown bishopric. There we pitched our tent for two nights, and went out to see Touques and Bonneville-see the doings of the Red Man in 1099 as set forth by Orderic, and yesterday we came hither, stopping at Argentan-see the Chronicle in 1094. I don't know yet which day we go on to our head centre at Le Mans.

I saw Dr. Mackenzie in London, who reported me to be wonderfully better, as indeed I feel. I am amazed to find how I can get about. Only I have to carry about a stock of bottles and boxes, which is a new thing for me-only I get them packed by Charles Parker (son of James, grandson of C. B. and Officer of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus) whom his father has brought to make photographs, &c. I met Paul Friedmann, ¿ σvμþрovdokтóvos 1, at Johnny's. He has any number of boxes of documents about Philip and Mary; all Froude-smiting. We hope he will make a big book of them. Then there is one Meline, whom Goldwin Smith recommends, who has taken up the Mary Stewart part 2. But none of us will be hearkened to by the general reader-Meline least of all, as his book is put forth by a 'Catholic Publication Society.'

. . . Somehow in the kirks here they weary me with their side altars, and provoke me to displeasure with their images. Anselm's religion is another thing; this is so babyish. Can you fancy Lanfranc leading William the Great up to an altar with dolls and flower-pots? I say anathema unto them. If Fowler buys hides at Lisieux, sure he ought to get some here at Alençon. 'Hides, hides from the tanner.' I don't a bit believe in Planché's attempt to make out Fulbert-abou-Herleva to have been an honourable fur-merchant. The tanneries are such a characteristic feature, both at Falaise, and everywhere where one goes. I believe that we are running back to-day to Sagium or Séez. If the Bishop of Lexovia be 'an unknown foreign

1 'The fellow-slayer of Froude.'

2 Mary Queen of Scots and her latest English historian. New York, 1872.

3 Lisieux.

ecclesiastic, how much unknowner and foreigner must a Bishop of Sagium be. Yet Serlo of that see at least knew how to crop hair with some zeal 2.

TO PROFESSOR BOYD DAWKINS.

August 3, 1879.

... Next to myself, you are the man who has the strangest things put into his mouth. See Spectator of yesterday on 'White Wild Cattle.' (Who is Mr. Storer?) 'With the extirpation of the Romano-Celts by the Britons and the predatory allies who helped them-coming with their families, their goods, and, according to Mr. Boyd Dawkins, their cattle-came the descendants of Bos-Urus to these islands.' Who are the 'RomanoCelts'? Who are the Britons who extirpated' them? Who are their 'predatory allies?' I had always understood you to say that, when the Ur-John-Bull came hither in 449 he brought his cow and calf with him. Modern legend-makers have no poetic imagination or they might say that a white bull swam to Britain with Rowena on his back, and that Hengest and Horsa came a-looking for her in the three keels.

TO MISS EDITH THOMPSON.

Somerleaze, August 12, 1879.

I am strongly in favour of leaving the passage as it stands 3. I see nothing untrue or in any way to be found fault with it; and, if you are to go patching this and that, just to please some

1 An allusion to a passage in one of Mr. Froude's papers on St. Thomas of Canterbury, where the Bishop of Lexovia is mentioned as an unknown foreign ecclesiastic.'

2 Serlo, Bishop of Séez, preached a sermon before Henry I and his court, in which he declaimed so effectively against the sin of wearing long hair, that the King submitted his head to be cropped forthwith by the Bishop's own hands. See Norman Conquest, v. 844.

The reference is to some suggested changes in Miss Thompson's small History of England more especially with reference to the marriage of the clergy in the time of Dunstan), in order to render it acceptable to the school authorities in Canada, where Roman Catholic influence was strong. In the end no alteration was made.