223-230.
-- Trouble, however, awaited him of a very different kind.

After the publication of the Reminiscences, on the 3rd of May, 1881, he returned to Mrs.Alexander Carlyle the manuscript note-book which contained the memoir of her aunt, as Carlyle had requested him to do.

At the end of it, on separate and wafered paper, following rather vague surmise that, though he meant to burn the book, it would probably survive him and be read by his friends, were these words: "In which event, I solemnly forbid them, each and all, to publish this Bit of Writing as it stands here; and warn them that without fit editing no part of it should be printed (nor so far as I can order, shall ever be); and that the 'fit editing' of perhaps nine- tenths of it will, after I am gone, have become impossible.
"T.

C.( Saturday, July 28th, 1866)." Mary Carlyle at once wrote to The Times, and accused Froude of having violated her uncle's express directions.

It would have been better if Froude had himself quoted this passage, and explained the subsequent events which made it obsolete.