It was he who first took me to Eversley." It was when he came to London that Froude enlarged the circle of his friends, Carlyle being the greatest and the chief.

Among the contributors to Fraser's Magazine those whom he knew best were the late Sir John Skelton, "Shirley," and the present Sir Theodore Martin, the biographer of the Prince Consort, whom some still prefer to associate with those delightful parodies, the Bon Gaultier Ballads.

The enumeration of Froude's London acquaintances would be merely a social chronicle, with the supplement of some names, such as General Cluseret's, quite outside the ordinary groove.

He could get on with any one, and he was interested in every one who had interesting qualities.

After his second marriage his dinner-parties in Onslow Gardens were famous for their brilliancy and charm.