FROUDE AND CARLYLE When James Spedding introduced Froude to Carlyle he made unconsciously an epoch in English literature.

For though Froude was incapable of merging himself in another man, as Spedding merged himself in Bacon, he did more for the author of Sartor Resartus than Spedding did for the author of the Novum Organum.

Spedding's Bacon is an impossible hero of unhistorical perfection.

Froude's Carlyle, like Boswell's Johnson, is a great man painted as he was.

When the original head master of Uppingham described his school as Eton without its faults, there were those who felt for the first time that there was something to be said for the faults of Eton.