In fact, while they continue liable, and occasionally subject, to treatment of this kind, the feelings insensibly generate which will lead in the end to separation." The immediate consequence of Froude's West Indian travels was his well-known book The English in the West Indies, to which he gave a second title, one that he himself preferred, The Bow of Ulysses.

It was illustrated from his own sketches, for he had inherited that gift from his father.

Being often controversial in tone, and not always accurate in description, it provoked numerous criticisms, though not of the sort which interfere with success.

In everything Froude wrote, though least of all in his History, allowance has to be made for the personal equation.

He had not Carlyle's memory, nor his unfailing accuracy of eye.