The age-herald., 1902-02-02

erary circles The Iecture will take place at St. Paul's church next Friday night, and already the Rev. Father OReilly reports a large sale of tickets
 Those persons who know Newman only by name will do well to look up their encyclopedias and read about this man who, by the force of his intellect, in spite of his ascetic life, was a leader among men. From the encyclopedias they will learn that John Henry Newman was born in London February q. 1901 that he was educated at Ealing and Trinity Col lege, Oxford that he was chosen Eel low of Oriel in 1923: that he took orders in the Church of England in 1924; that he was incumbent of St. Mary's, Oxford, from 1928 to 1S43; that he acquired great fame as a preacher: that he joined with Hurrell Froude in forming J conservative Anglo Catholic party within the Anglican communion; that he took part with Keble and Pusey in originating the Ok ford movement known also as the Tract arian movement, which had for its oo- ject the bringing of the Church Of En- gland back, as was claimed. to early Catholic principles ana practices; that he rapidly developed his tendencies to- ward Roman Catholicism; that in ls4o he became a Roman Catholic priest; that he established a DTallCn Ol lne of St. Philip Neri: that his lectures de- livered on Anglican difficulties displayed his great powers of irony and satire, that he wrote many books and published many volumes of sermons, essays and poems: that he was created Cardi- nal in 1879, and that he died in Birming- ham, England, August Il, 1890.
 While these facts about Newman are found in ordinary biographic sketches, the only way to know the man and his mental processes and to appreciate fully his greatness is by reading his works. His sermons are widely read, but per haps his work most familiar to the liter ary public is "Apologia pro Vita Mea. After reading "Apologia" and Gram mar of Assent" and the sermons and Loss and Gain; the Story of a Convent
 and the poems. one may have good knowledge of Newmans varied talents ara his surpassing scholarship
 By nature Newman was gentle and ten der but in satire he was very master and in polomics he was nothing snort or an intellectual giant. He had Keen 1n- sight. He knew men; knew their powers and their foibles and it was easy. there fore, for him to preach to them and to reason with them While his work was always earnest he often indulged in hu- nor; and was ever any mans humor more natural or more delcate?.
 In Newman's writings there Is no affec- tation. On the contrary one finds It, erary flavor that is fresh and all his own. If he did not originate a school of English letters his literary style is accepted as model by all English scholars. In singular degree he combined with imagi- nation and clearness rare grace and charm.
 No where have gained so fine an idea of the ways and the atmosphere of Oxford as in Loss and Gain" and in fev' of Newmans books does one find more beautiful specim ems of his wit and ten- derness and his literary finish than in this In the second chapter Is this about the bore: Tt is very difficult duly to delineate a bore in a narrative, for the very reason that 1t is d bore. A tale must aim at condensation. but bore acts in solution, It is only on the long
 run that he is ascertained. Then indeed he Is felt; he is oppressive, like the siroc- | CO., which the native detects at once, | while a foreigner is often at fault Tenet, | occditque. Did you hear him make but | one speech perhaps you would say he
 was a pleasant, well informed man. but l when he never comes to an end, or has l one and the same prose every time you | meet him, or keeps you standing till you l are Hl lO Sllh, UT 0OluS you 1dSL WHeH | you wish to keep an engagement, or flinders you listening to an important | conversation, then there is no mistake; the truth bursts on you. apparent dirae facies, you are in the clutches of a bore. You may yield or you may flee; you can not conquer. Hence it is clear that bore cannot be represented in a story or the story would be as much a bore as he.
 The reader, then. must believe this up- right MT. Batemen to be, what other wise he might not discover, and thank us for our consideration In not proving as well as asserting 1t.
 Charles Reding Is the hero of Loss and Gain" Very graphic and very moving is the account of his last visit to Oxford, just before the time when he was to be received into the Catholic church. Here 1t is:
 He had passed through Bagley wood and the spires and towers of the univer- sity came on his view hallowed by how many tender associations, lost to him for two whole yeans. suddenly recovered recovered to be lost forever There lay old Oxford before him. with it's hills as gentle and its msadows as green as ever. At the first view of that beloved place. he stood still with folded arms, unable to proceed. Each college each church. he counted them by their pinnacles and turrets. The silver Isis. the gray will lows, the far stretching plains, the dark groves, the distant range of Shotover. the pleasant village where he had lived with Carlton and Sheffield wood, water. stone. all so calm, so bright they might have been his. but his they were not.
 Whatever ne was to gain by becoming a Catholic. this he had lost; whatever he was to gain higher and better, at least this and such as this he never could have again. He could not have another oxford. he could not have the friends of his boyhood and youth in the choice of his manhood. He mounted the well known gate on the left and proceeded down into the plain. There was no one 10 greet him, so sympathize with him; there was no one to believe he had giv- cn up anything; no one 10 take interest in lim. to feel tender towards him. to de- fenG him. He had suffered much but there was no one to believes that he had suffered He would be thought to be in- fflcting merely, not undergoing. suffer- ing He might say that he had suffered but he would be rudely told that every one follows his own will, and that if he had given up Oxford 1t was for a whin which he liked better than 1t. But rather there was no one to know him: he had been virtually three years away; three years is a generation. Oxford had been his place once but his place knew him no more.
 He recollected with what awe and transport he had at first come to the university as to some sacred shrine: and how from time to time hoDeS had copoe