OXFORD Westminster, it will have been seen, did less than nothing for Froude.

His progress there was no progress at all, but a movement backwards, physical and mental deterioration.

He recovered himself at home, his father's coldness and unkindness notwithstanding.

But it was not until he went to Oxford that his real intellectual life began, and that he realised his own powers.

In October, 1836, four months after Hurrell's death, he came into residence at Oriel.