New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-10
LIFE OF PUSEY.
CANON LIDDONs BIOGRAPHY.
EIRST NOTICE.

Professor OF Hebrew in the university % T ~
at CANON Pa anS aSs" Or
Edited and prepared for pueaC "a all Saints Ok
or O. s and the Rev Robert Wilson A.
Warden Of Keble College; vo oSI Four Vols Vol
traits and i p xv as Vol dsssss pp
VIII S $50: Vol p'iI III dsis-is5S, PIP, XII ass Long
mans Greene q Co
IN the dav of Puseys funeral, September H.
$3.50 number OF the great divines intimate iriends
met together and united In request 10 Oa"
Iiddop TO undertake his biography. ne accep'.'
the responsibility and. until the day OF MS oea'"
in 1890 he devoted all his available time TO 'ne
task Nevertheless he was unable to compete IT,
ord tho work which is before u.s. OF which the
fourth and concluding volume is not yet issued
was prepared for publication from canon lhuuoi'
notes by two OF his friends and pupils Mess''
Johnston and Wilson. SO far as one can Juus'
they have done their work we'll but IL VIII AVA
no matter OF regret that Canon liddon hHseh
.. not shared 70 finish it, Though they found the
.I ise not at all ready for publication the EDITORS
did not feel themselves at liberty 10 a"e' ma
terially the scope. scale or character Oh 'ie WON
What they did simply to edit H. as " was
<or nuhucat,on This will serve to explain ana en-
cuse n certain lack of conference and hnish Una.
,o,roct from It's literary value. AS record OF
r,sav.s life however, II is complete and IL gives
os No one else but Iiddon could have gwen d
svmpathetic insight into the HE character anu
motives of the great Church leader ana reloiiie'
Indeed, II is. II anything 'oo H"i''
editors virtually admit. but as already explained
they did not feel at liberty to reduce "e Soa'e
which Canon Iiddon had projected
In fragment found among his papers canon
Idddon refers TO the paucity of materials lot ne
of Pussy He never kept diary, ana MS ie''eiS
were generally undated. while he destroyed mos
of the letters received by him. even from the most
,,on, corresnondents He was Indifferent to
literary form almost TO the verge of being SIP
shod His life moreover. was singularY ueNo'u
of incident 1t was. in fact largely suo'esS.o"
of lectures sermons. letters ana interviews ne
story OF Pusey's career must thereiore' u"
largely a chronicle Of intellectual and spiritual
,reuence which often worked out its results IN
hidden and unsupported channels. For the trans
mission of such a chronicle no one was better
equipped than Liddon He had been Tor many year
tho discinle and the friend of Pussy. And ne not
only smpathized with him in his religious WE'VE
hut like Pusey. was a profound scholar and theo-
Logan 1t may be that a Life OF fusey VIII
vet he written which will better describe his re-
iat,on TO the great movement Of modern rei-
pious thought-for Iiddon. though great thinker
within certain narrow religious lines was s'iahse
" obtuse to tendencies of thought OUTSIDE Oh
those lines: but is mot likely that any plosrdPh!
Of Pusev will ever be written which Will give Il
truer picture of the man himself and the strange
mower which he welded over his devoted loi-
lowers
Edward Bouverie Pusey was by lineage and tenn
perament an aristocrat. and therefore the last man
who would have been expected to head movement
that ignored the aristosratc traditions OF the Ahsi
can establishment. Puseyism or Rltuahsn as '"'
Catholic revival movement originally called was
not simply a revival of obsolescent Catholic doctrines
but in It's spirit It in deadly hostility 10 'he
easy-going Erastianism that the English gentry OIL
tho last generation believed in and upheld. What
ever may be thought of Puseys attempt 10 revive
n sacerdotal conception of religion that even YET
seens 10 many churchmen to be denial OF the
principles of the Reformation there Is no DOUBT tha'
in overthrowng Erastiniansm fuseN rehue'ei al"
inestimable service to the English Church' IL was
the severe almost Puritanical, pety ana the deep
spirituality Of Puseyism. or. as 1t Is now called
AngIo-C a hocism that made forever Impossible IN
tho English church the type OF six bottle fox
hunting parson who had for so long brought dis
credit religion
The man who struck the keynote Of this mighty
reform was himself English gentleman an ans
tocrat and IA descendant of aristocrats lie was
born in Pussy House. in Berkshire on August ~
800 His father was Philip Bouverie, who took the
name of Pusey as condition of succession 10 the
Pusey estate. Philip Bouvere was the youngest
son of the first Viscount Folkestone. Puseys mother
was Lady Lucy Sherard. daughter OF Robert
fourth Earl of Marlborough. and widow OF SIT
Thomas cave The atmosphere of his home life was
deeply tinctured by bitter Toryism. His father
was accustomed to speak Of Wings and atheists as
Identical. and the young man frequently heard
Charles | mentioned a martyr. Like SO many
great men, Pussy owed much to his mother She
is described as.
Tall slim with long hands and tapering fingers
a feature in which all her children, and not least
her second son-resembed her. Win a
sweet but piercing expression In her blue there
was still a touch OF severity in her bearing; she
rarely or would lean back in her chair ana
she used to say that 10 Stoop WAS tne ad out bH
rule; certain portion always given to reading
the Bible; and another portion TO some ,, BOOK 81
established literary merit. Pussy used TO dwe1i Wit
enthusiasm his mothers charity, self iorgetiui-
attributed the greatest blessings which he had re-
ceived from Almighty God"
That the ausiere uncanonized saint Of rituasm
was essentially human in his sympathies is in
dicated by the following description of him when he
entered Eton at the age of eleven: He was
weakly boy and often found himself unequal tc
taking his natural part in games. But he was as
popular as a shy boy could be- older boys knew that
he was no Ioafer' on the other hand. he was
well known 10 ride better than most boys and hS
was a good swimmer. . He had, moreover. the
reputation Of being the best chess player at Eton.
AS a student In school and college, he lived
blameess life In Christ Church College oxford
ne achieved distinction as classical scholar, ms
strength lying IN accurate verbal scholarship rather
than in philosophy In later years he paid more at
tention to philosophy; but philosophy never APP
pealed to him very strongly except 1t bore upon
theology which he ever regarded the queen OF
all sciences. In 1922 he first met Kebe and New
man, the year when ne read for his fellowship al
Orel. In his "Apoogia' Newman thus speaks OF
him: "At that time ds2o had the intimacy of my
dear and true friend DR. Pussy. and could not fai
70 admire and revere soul so devoted to the cause
of religion so full of good works. faithful in his
affections But he left residence when | was COINS
TO know him we'll
In 1926 Pussy went 70 the University OF Got
tingen There he attended the lectures Of Eichhorr
on Biblical criticism. and from him learned thu
vastness OF the world Of modern learning and tn
standard Of work which was necessary to explore
it." 1t need hardly be said that he never became
a convert 10 the school of German Biblical crti
chsm But it is undoubtedly true, nevertheless tina
his great commentaries on the minor Prophets ow'
xouch 81 ,heir value 70 the methods OF criticism