I had a long letter from him to- day, in which he expresses his restlessness characteristically, J'ai la nostalgic de la poudre." Afterwards Froude followed Carlyle, and went with Russia against Turkey.

The "unspeakable Turk" was to be "struck out of the question and Bismarck invited to arbitrate.

Such was the oracular deliverance from Cheyne Row, and Froude obeyed the oracle.

He attended the Conference at St.James's Hall in December at which Gladstone spoke, and Carlyle's letter was read, sitting for the only time in his life on the same platform with Freeman.

Next May, when war between Russia and Turkey had actually begun, when Gladstone was about to move his famous resolutions in the House of Commons, there appeared in The Times* another remarkable letter from the same hand.