New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-11-10
NOTES FROM LONDON.

HIS MISTAKE ABOUT BISHOP BUT.
LER-THE ANTI-vIvSECTION.
ISIS AND THEIR CHAMPION.
MISS FRANCES POWER
COBBE.
London October 20.
Il IA a remarkable week, even for Oxford
when two such men as Mr.. Gladstone and Mr..
Froude lecture I'm that ancient University-the
oldest Parliamentary Hand on Monday, and the
first OF living historians and writer's Of English on
Wednesday Not often has the Sheldonan Thea
tire been the scene Of more crowded more brill
liant gathering Mr.. Gladstone is not as a poll
tican. favorte with the University, but Mr..
Gladstone as personality can draw, even in Ok
ford, as nobody else can, and there and elsewhere
ia admired and beloved without much regard to
his political views. 1t was felt to he a very
striking thing that this veteran Of eighty-thr
now for the fourth time Prime Minister Of Eng.
land, should be able to dismiss the cares Of En-
pire from his mind so easily, and clothe himself
in academic robes to set forth to a company Of
scholars his views on Medieval Universities.
Now, as ever, the responsibilities which would
burden most men sit lightly on his shoulders. II
you have made up your mind on every conceive
bic question, and if evidence be only welcome to
you as it confirms and fortifies preconceived
view of the facts, the drudgery Of official duty is,
no doubt. appreciably enlivened. 1t is as il gov
erning were a pastine, and Homer and Dante,
Theology and the Church, books and colleges, his
serious business in life. In the conversations of
Dr. Dosllinger, lately published, as in many another
book, Mr. Gladstone appears as completely alb
gorbed, at least for the time, in subjects remote
from Parliament and from Downing Street. His
l. xa,bo ;. ~p;o q.
sound is q question to which his unlearncd follow
crs on the hand and scholars on the other
may give conflicting answers
None the less wonderful is the spectacle OF Mon
day. His lecture is not, say the experts, very
valuable contribution to- the history Of Medieval
Universities, and the irreverent allege that he
crammed for it. Possibly enough he did, does it
matter His interest in the subject is for the mo-
ment intense. lie is capable first Of collating and
then Of pouring out in an irresistible food mass
Of facts bearing the topic he wishes 10 discuss
on the view he resolves TO enforce. lie is really
too busy to assmatc them, to digest them and
10 reproduce them I'm q form which would give to
them, and to his own theories their highest value
lie Is not impressive. He is hardly even literary
IL is when he comes, accidentally il
were. upon q subject which he feels strongly that
the flesh begins 10 clOthc these dry bones ard
the blood 10 flow in the veins of the figures he
centuries up Such is the passage Laud The
name of that eminent Archbishop is one of tho
most hated in Englond. II is hated especially by
the great body Of Mr. Glads;ones political support
crs the Nonconformists But II never occrrs to him
that politics have, or can have, anything To do
with his opinions on nOn-political matters. least
of all when he discourses as q historian One
likes him all the better for that. 80 he goes
on cxtoihg that bigoted old ecclesiastic. Iust as
II he were OF to day and held sound views on
Home Rule and controlled party whose votes
were fndispensable in Parliament. The Nom
conformists will probably, for more reasons than
ono. stiae their indignation; and perhaps IL
docs not greatly signify whether they do or
not.
What docs signify. what does interest those
who don't care deeply either way about Laud, is
tho fresh contribution which Mr.. Gladstone makes
70 his own autobiography. The chances are tha'
mi. lecture on Medieval Universities may M re-
remembered chiefly for this one passage or I'M
measured eulosy OH Laud lie treats him aliaost as
the maker OF Oxford at any rate. as having ieH
unon the university on Influence and an I'M
nness which have survived In all their esscntiai
FEATURES for 900 years, and one likely to last
another 900; as he clearly wishes they
may lie was in Mr. Gladstone's view, bene-
factor 10 Oxford and bulwark to the Church;
md. as such, entitled TO the gratitude oil 'ne
lecturer: TO whom Oxford and the Church are, In
Nj. Utmost soul. dearer than almost anything
else. except the policy he has at hand Tor inc
moment Ia oro
Bishop Buffers Analogy is known 10 De oh'
If tho half-dozen books 20 which MI. uaus'C'.e
attributes an important formative agency Oh 'i,'
own education Nobody, therefore, WIS muo.
surprisod that he should have spoken as he "t'
about il at Oxford, nor at his somewhat paS'',n
atc complaint that il had never Dceh uan'
into any foreign language; not even go
word OF him., said the great lecturer III I'm.
Reich thcreupon pointed out, with quie' NM
which I am afraid was thrown away, 'n'' '"i'
statement could hardly be correct in"Si""o'
% there are two German TRANSACTIONS anu O"'
French. the titles and dates OF which ne go
Mr.. Gladstone then writes to DR.. keich. o"e'ts
him his "best thanks for his correc'oh' 49,
lpa. in a tone OF inexpressible Inortifca'o"' 90"
" al broad ne0ation "a mine ought IN pru'ehco
>, h.vs I've, qualified It is probably the first
instance en- record in which Mr.. Gladstone COM
,ri.,oa him-.lf either 10 broad negation OF
broad Affirmation which was not quaiu'eu
But even now he puts In Nind Oh PIC" "
mitigation Of damages. saying: a.,
~ NAV. perhaps now properly observe on inc
apee Of timc which preceded these transauon'.
reaching in tho French case to not Jar sn''' '.
century: and on the fact that they 40 NOV
In any case include the sermons ana ,na' '"e'
secm 10 have fallen almost into oblivion
Ore would have thought that the NOR, r,cen'
tho translation. the more likely II would nav
been not to escape tho notice OF this eagle-eye"
ra,0er both Of books and OF CATALOGUES Du'er
Analogy was published in ,7ss-the date Is nov nov
IA A,,,hoh.--the French translation In 1921 inc
two German translatons in 1886 ana 100 ~.
,rsct,v.v A 10 their falling into oblivion 'n'
nitil.ss DR.. Reich gives list OF four "'r" ,a
and tw, French trcatises, all published CURING
Tho rre.cnt century, tho four latest appesr"s :,
.a-a ,aIo aud 1889 which dorS NV