Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . erappears to havebeen in cordialsympathy. Hur-rell, whose bril-liant gifts and en-thusiastic tempermade him one ofthe most distin-guished figuresamong his con-temporaries at Ox-ford, was one ofNewmans mostardent associatesin his mission ofde-Protestantising the Church of England, and, as Anthonysfuture career was to show, the mission was onewhich appealed neither to his heart nor hishead. As for the s
Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . erappears to havebeen in cordialsympathy. Hur-rell, whose bril-liant gifts and en-thusiastic tempermade him one ofthe most distin-guished figuresamong his con-temporaries at Ox-ford, was one ofNewmans mostardent associatesin his mission ofde-Protestantising the Church of England, and, as Anthonysfuture career was to show, the mission was onewhich appealed neither to his heart nor hishead. As for the second brother, William, histastes lay in another direction than those ofAnthony—mechanical science being the subjectto which he devoted himself with all the abilitywhich was the common inheritance of the family. From his early years, we are told by a friendof the family, Anthony felt chilled, crushed, andfettered; and, as such an experience is neveroutlived, it may partly explain that undertone ofausterity which is seldom absent from anything hewrote. But, if his home was uncongenial, he wasin lively sympathy with the surroundings where hishome lay. It was in youth that he acquired that. AMES ANTHONY FROUDE From a Photograph by Elliott & Fry. love of the sea which remained the chief pleasureof his life ; and it was then, also, that he acquiredthat interest in those forgotten worthies — thena\ al heroes of his native Devon—to whose exploitshe has devoted some of his most brilliant from these two interests we may deduce anothercharacteristic—his passionate patriotism, which toforeigners is the predominating note of his work asa historian. After three years (1830-33) spent at Westminster School, and othertwo at a pri\ateschool at Merton,Froude proceededto Oriel College,Oxford, at theage of High Churchmovement, ofwhich Newman,a Fellow of Oriel,was the inspiringleader, was thenin full flood ; andfrom the exampleof his brotherHurrell, it was tobe expec
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