He cordially disliked “The Times” newspaper, alleging instances of the unfairness with which its columns had been used to spite and injure persons who had offended it, chuckling over Hayward’s compact anathema,—“‘The Times,’ which as usual of late supplied its lack of argument and proof by assumption, misrepresentation, and personality.” He thought that its attacks upon himself had helped his popularity. “One of the main causes,” he said in 1875, “of the interest which people here were good enough to take in my book was the fight between ‘The Times’ and me. In 1863 it raged, in 1867 it was renewed with great violence, and now I suppose the flame kindles once more, though probably with diminished strength. In 1863 the storm of opinion generally waxed fierce against me, but now, as I hear, ‘The Times’ is alone, journals of all politics being loud in my praise. But I never look at any comment on my volumes till long afterwards, and I never in my life wrote to a newspaper.” Once, when Chenery, the editor, came to join the table at the Athenæum where he and Mr. Cartwright were dining, Kinglake rose, and removed to another part of the room. “The Times” had inserted a statement that Madame Novikoff was ordered to leave England, and he thus publicly resented it. “So unlike me,” he said, relating the story, “but somehow a savagery as of youth came over me in my ancient days; it was like being twenty years old again.” It came out, however, that “our indiscreet friend Froude” had written something which justified the paragraph, and Kinglake sent his _amende_ to Chenery, with whom ordinarily he was on most friendly terms.