catch contagion from the petulant enthusiasm of a Russian Apostle."
The contagion was in any case caught, and to some purpose; letter
after letter had been sent by the lady to the great statesman, then
in temporary retirement, without reply, until the last of these, "a
bitter cry of a sister for a sacrificed brother," brought a feeling
answer from Mrs. Gladstone, saying that her husband was deeply
moved by the appeal, and was writing on the subject. In a few days
appeared his famous pamphlet, "Bulgarian Horrors and the Question
of the East."

Carlyle advised that Madame Novikoff's scattered papers should be
worked into a volume; they appeared under the title "Is Russia
Wrong?" with a preface by Froude, the moderate and ultra-prudent
tone of which infuriated Hayward and Kinglake, as not being
sufficiently appreciative. Hayward declared some woman had biassed
him; Kinglake was of opinion that by studying the etat of Queen
Elizabeth Froude had "gone and turned himself into an old maid."

Froude's Preface to her next work, "Russia and England, a Protest
and an Appeal," by O. K., 1880, was worded in a very different tone
and satisfied all her friends. The book was also reviewed with
highest praise by Gladstone in "The Nineteenth Century." Learning
that an assault upon it was contemplated in "The Quarterly,"
Kinglake offered to supply the editor, Dr. Smith, with materials
which might be so used as to neutralize a PERSONAL attack upon O.
K. Smith entreated him to compose the whole article himself. "I
could promise you," he writes, "that the authorship should be kept
a profound secret;" but this Kinglake seems to have thought
undesirable. The article appeared in April, 1880, under the title
of "The Slavonic Menace to Europe." It opens with a panegyric on