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place in the Church whose doRmas he rejected I;
but we are glad to know that he is able to re-
joice In the independence and freedom he has
won. j. 3.



with an eager interest. equally on account
OF the character and career Of the writer him
self and OF those whom he has gathered in the
grasp OF his memory. These "reminiscences
have disappointed expectation. The once
unique powers OF the keen cssayist and vigor-
GUS loader writer OF the Times are In decline.
Time has touched his sinew and stripped 1t OF
its strength He is now an old man residing
near Chetenham In England. and has felt
the depressing hand OF disease. He has lost
the sight OF one eye. and the vision OF the other
Is very scant and feeble. so that he reads and
writes with difficulty. and the grave he says
is not distant Indeed. 1t was the coDcious-
ness OF this that made him feel that he
should have been deaf to divine call If
he had allowed characters which had for
him an unearthly radiance to be forgotten.
Hence these "reminiscences. All tho events.
incidents, and anecdotes nre drawn entirely
from memory. He had returned all the let
tcrs in his possession to the writer's. even
his brother-n-law. Ncwmans: 80 that when
recently an Irish gentleman. Mr. Harris whom
he would like to have served. longcd on his
dcathbed to see the autograph Of tho Cardinal.
after considerable search the only one he
could find was Newmans acknowledgment OF
the returned letters.
Recollections as Mr. Motley says. must share
tai picture of events long passed by. and seen
through an increasing breadth Of many tinted
haze ia liable to be warped and colored by
more recent remembrances. and by Impressions
received from other quarters. Those who re-
member most confidently are often most wrong.
The late Lord Panmure once exclaimed
at Charter House Brooke Hall din
ner: Fancy man forgetting n
thing" Not long after he had personal evi-
dencc that 1t was not only possible. but easy.
Sitting next Lord Granville on the Government
bench in the House of Lords when there was
discussion over the antecedents of a Whig
appointee. who had failed in the duties of his
Office. that nobleman. in extenuation. said he
had strong recommendations from some of the
Opposition. especially from the late Lord
Chancellor Chelmsford whereon Lord Chelms-
ford sprang up and declared he had never
recommended never known. or even heard Of
the man. On this. Lord Granville took a
note from his pocket and passed it to
Lord Chelmsford. who. with a sudden
look OF recollection. admitted his mistake
Sitting one day next Page Wood. afterward
Lord Chancellor Hatherley. Motley asked him
II he was not haunted by some of the many
great and strange causes in which he had
borne part NO" was the answer they
pass away from my thoughts. It's all logic"
struck Cardinal Newman. rs it has the teachers
in our common schools here and teachers in
deed everywhere. that the Irish have beyond
other peoples. exact and vivid memories. BE
this as 1t may Mr.. Motley memory. consider
| ing his age and condition. seems strong. and
he has watched over the truth Of every line he
has written with anxious vigilance.
| In this work Newman stands upon pedestal
the mysterious central figure. and grouped
around him the figures Of many emf
nent men-Whateley, Keb!e Arnold. Froude,
| the Wilbsrforces Sir James Stephen. Hamp-
den, Dnnco White. Pusey and many lesser
forms. Mr.. Mozleys life furnishes his claim
to write of such men. He was born and
| brought up at Derby. and dwclls with
endearng tenderness on that pleasant town
and everything connected with it. Ho was
educated at the Charter House school, and
| in 1925 came into residence at Oriel College.
| Newman held then the office OF junior treas
urer and in 1926 he became his pupil. and I'M
| til 1928 when he took his B. A. degree. saw
| much moro of him than even in those days
| when tuition meant something. pupils saw ol
| their masters. At Newman's encouragement he
stood for Il fellowship at the next Easter, anC
was elected and from that date. 1929 TO Christ
| mas 1891 he resided almost wholly with New
man. his family. and the remarkable circle OF
friends he had gathered round him. Prom 1881
TO 1895 he filed few rural livngs. not so fai
distant from Oxford a. TO remove him from il,
! influence and association; and in 1885 he re-
turned to stand by Newman's side whose sis
ter in 1886 he marrell and 10 take part In writ
ing and spreading the Tracts Of the Times. q
and in the fierce fight within tho Church Of Eng
land to which their publication was the trum
pet note. Accepting the living Of Chodeston
in that Salisbury Pnin which Sidney Smith
has made historic he combined with its
duties the editorship OF the BrtLisl
Critic the organ Of the Oxford movement
which position he occupied until 1S43, when he
exchanged it for one Of still greater strength
and influence. not second perhaps IN power tc
any in the kingdom. He became the chief odi.o
rial writer to the London Times during the bril-
liant period when it was conducted by Dclanc
The arrangement was consummated after {
long walk with him in the Temple Gardens
1t necossitated n separation from Newman nnC
his Oxford friends as far cooperation was
concerned. and from that timc there could no
be confidential correspondence on the heart o
affairs. Still. in his new post. the ealar
attached to which il may be interesting to men
tion was sl00 600 year, ho had frequent lcttcr
from Newman and occasional reminders tina
what he did must be for heaven NJ we'll as fC
earth. and would be 70 judged. For n lon
period, extending to some fow years ago, h
was thenrcforth personally withdrawn from
world which nevertheless each morning at
dthe product Of his brain.
So much has been written about Cerdin
Newman that Mozley has little that is new
offer. That little Possesses all the char
) which everything ssosiated with him carrie
1t was known that he was skilled violins
} and when challenged to II controversy at Bi
mingham by n Methodist ne wrote In answ'
that he would not meet him in coHtrovor'
but would play the fiddle against him,
he wished. 1T was scarcely known, hOweye
, that he early mastered music as n science NJ
; attained such proficiency On the violin tina
q had he not become Doctor Of tho Church.
; would have been PaGanini. Tho divine ri
entered into his birhriGht. Al the age Of
$ he composed an opera and, while young in
$ provIsod Mosques and idyls Thoroughne
o ran through everything he did He wrote M
0 laid by complete history of every scro
. question in which lie was concerned He Ia
r to render an account Of it Hnd rropar
la ba ,,i