Evening star., 1898-10-29
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

NEW PUBLICATIONS.
LIFE OF CARDINALa MANNING, ARCHBISHOP
OF WESTMINSTER. By Edmund Sheridan
| Purcell, member of the Roman Academy of let
ters. In two volumes. New York: The Mac
milan Conpeny.
| Since Cardinal Manning's death in 1892
| there has never before appeared full ac-
| count Of his career bearing the imprint of
| authorization. OF course, many biograph-
ical sketches have been printed, some rem
| iniscences have appeared, and thus a con-
siderable collection Of matter concerning
| the great English convert to the Catholic
| faith has been accumulated. It has re-
matned until now, however, for a biogra-
| pher to put forth his work with the COM
pieteness demanded by the subject. Cardi-
| nal Manning seems virtually to have chosen
the present author to narrate the story of
| his life and to present his correspondence.
For five years they were in constant COM
| munication, and thus the biographer learn
ed much that is denied to the average
| writer of memoirs of famous personages.
| The cardinal in a measure directed the
| method of handling some OF this material
! especially the reproduction Of his personal
| diary.
These circumstances contribute to en-
| nance the value of important an adui
Manning's life was replete with the most
| qeepiy interesting and important Incl
| dents. His conversion from the Church of
| England to the Church of Rome was a no.
| table event in religious affairs. Around
| that episode are clustered many historical
| facts of first consequence Hence the biog-
| raphy OF such g. parsonage, leading in re-
| iigious thought as he did during a large
part OF his life, is in a sense history of
| the church movements of England during
the major portion of the nineteenth CEN
| tury.
These two volumes bear evidences of
careful preparation. They have been di-
Vided as to their contents with refer
nee to the two differing phases of Man
n1ng's religious career, volume 1 telling
Of Manning as an Anglican and volume
IL or his work as a Catholic. Thus the
great career was divided in life, anf
the literary separation necessitated by tn,
publishers eXfgencles is aptly utilized t.
typify the great change which came int
this singuiarly influential life Manning $
association with Gladstone left many me-
nentos which have been utilized by tht
biographer, though he notes in his preface
the irritation of Mr.. Gladstone on learn
ng that Cardinal Manning had suppressed
for biographical purposes, much of the cor
respondence between them. Nevertheless
Mr.. GladstOne's recollections have been
largely utilized and form an attractive fea-
ture of the work.
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