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DEATH OF PROF. NEWMAN,
Tho DistinEuished Brother or the Late Carai
nal Newman Dies Aged % Years.

The DistinEuished Brother or the Late Carol.
nal Newman Dies Aged % Years.
Prof. Francis William Newman, the younger
brother Of Cardinal Newman, died yesterday
In London at the age of 90. He had always
represented in his religious opinions views
wholly antithetical to those of his older
brother. who finally became a member OF tho
Roman Catholic Church, and steadily pro-
crossed in the breadth of his acceptance of tho
Church's doctrines, while Francis William
Newman. rejecting ono religious belief after
another. finally became an aRnostic. Froude,
who said that John Henry Newman
had taken refuge in the Roman Catholic
Church as a reaction against the prevail
ing skepticism Of Europe. was another
Of the men who passed out Of the influence Of
the Oxford movement into agnosticism. while
the Same doctrines which they had once be-
lieved together landed John Henry Newman In
the Church of Rome and made his brother, like
Froude, a skeptic.
Prof. Newman was born in London. and was
educated in Ealing and at Worcester Col
lege. Oxford, where he took a double frst-class
medal in classics and mathematics. This was in
1875, and in that year he was elected a fellow of
Ballot College. II had been his intention TO take
orders. but he gave UP this plan, and on account
OF certain s%cruples against the doctrine OF in
FAINT baptism he resigned his scholarship after
four yeare. He then went TO Bagdad with the
purpose OF doing missionary work there. but he
Boon decided that his opinions untitled him for
that work, and after three years, abandoning it
wholly, he returned to EnSlaSi. He gave up
then any occupation OF n religious nature and
became classical professor in Bristol College.
BY this time he had almost ceased to call HIM
self 4 Christian.
In 1910 he accepted the post Of classical pro-
lessor at Manchester and remained in that place
for six years. going at the end OF that time to
tho University College Of London. He was
there until 1868. Already he had written works
on religious subjects, OF which the best known
are: q" The soul" puoI;shed while he was at the
"Thcism. " both OF which appeared in 1868. lie
ceased to class himself as a Christian. and he
that is spiritual, pure and merciful in CHRIS.
tianity amid the wreck which erudition has
made OF mythology
His writings were by no means confined to re.
ligious and spiritual subjects. and in the field OF
political economy and history. classics, and
Oriental language he has written copiously and
with authority. He had all his life kept fresh
the results OF his college studies in Greek, Latin
these a scholarly knowledge OF modern Arabic.
as we'll az the ancient Numidian. Mauritian.
and Gaetulian languages. He also wrote on
Hebrew anu Christian theism and on ethical
s~ubjects. In addition to these classified works
Prof. Newman published n series of miscella-
neous works in four volumes, and two years ago
he contemplated a fifth volume in case he lived.
His latest work was n memoir OF his brother.
He has produced more than forty volumes in all.
and one OF these was devoted to the effect OF
diet on the human system. He was for the
greater part OF his life an abstaiuer from flesh
meat and he was equally opposed 10 the use OF
Rlchohol and tobacco. He was a member OF the
banking firm of Ramsbottom. Newman & Co.
His older brother was for many years OF his life
completely estranged from him and Is reported
not only 70 have refused TO speak 10 him, but to
have said that SO far as John Henry, Cardinal
Newman, was concerned, Prof. Francis William
Newman was dead.