Mr. Fro tide's Negrophobia, or Don Quixote as a 
Cook's Tourist 
By N. Darnell Davis. 
INCE Anthony Trollope visited the West 
Indies and wrote The West Indies and the 
S Spanish Main : a work which, by the way, 
may be classed with the brightest of his Novels : no 
Traveller's tale of this part of the Empire has excited 
such general interest as has Mr. Froude'S The English 
in the West Indies, or the Bow of Ulysses. 
Mr. James Anthony Froude is, pace Mr. Freeman, 
an Historian, and his fame as such is mainly founded 
upon his having discovered that, after all said to the 
contrary, that most dread Sovereign King HENRY VIII. 
was a highly respectable personage. It needs an 
exuberant imagination to whitewash so eminent a Blue 
Beard as was King Hal, but then, imagination was, 
and is, Mr. FROUDE'S strong point. Let any one 
who knows the West Indies well, but read The English 
in the West Indies, and he will readily admit that 
imagination plays a very a6live part in that Traveller's 
Romance. He seems, indeed, to think it only neces- 
sary to fancy his fa6ts, and then to set them down as 
but truisms. To go into all Mr. FROUDE'S inaccuracies, 
and into all his contradictions of himself, is not the 
purpose of this paper, which will treat principally of 
the rampant Negrophobia displayed by that gentleman. 
At the same time, attention must be drawn to the grave 
