The sun., 1904-06-12

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THE |
Present Discontehts" was the most re-
markable pamphlet ever produced In any
age or country. Both Actdh and Bafour
spoke very highly Of Sir Jdmes Stephens
"Horss Sabbatic1," and thought that no
newspaper would now be 80 bold as to
admit such soiid and valuable papers, A
lady who was present, and who had been
driving and talking metaphysics In the
morning with George Meredith, praised
his novels. Talk about his very dinaoult
style led to an expression OF belief that
writer's who are not simple In their lam
guage have very little chance OF COM
mending themselves TO posterity; no much
70 that 1t well might be doubted whether
much Of either Carlyle or Browning, would
long continue to be read. On June 10
1896, our diarist dined at Marlborough
House., where he sat between Herscheh
and Chamberlain, and saw around the
board the most distinguished representa-
tives Of both political parties. In the
course Of tho evening Balfour spoke to
him about q notable dinner given by his
lnterlocuto or some weeks before ct "a Princes
Gate. There has been," said Grant Dun,
"a sad tragedy since then. Ono Of the
people who had asked to meet you was
Lady Clare Fielding. who was very anxious
to make your acquaintance. SOhF said
Balfour, Il should 30 much. like to have
known her; have slways heard that she
was one Of the most delightful Of human
beings" 'You use exactly the right
phrase said. THAT wal precisely what
she was Later in the evening our author
felt impelled to say to Lord Reay. fellow
guest: In what other country In the
world could the outgoing and incoming
Ministries meet after this peaoeable fash
ioni"
The first allusion Of much interest to
Newman occurs under dato Of November,
1893. when our author asked Wilfrid Ward
II he could give the reference to a saying OF
Newman's. which he Grant Dunn had used
several times In the form In which IL had
been repeated to him by Walter Bagehot,
form which, though better than the
original, was not absolutely accurate.
The saying which our author had In mind
was the last sentence OF the Ninth Uni
versity Sermon, and Ward showed 1t to him
in the copy given by Newman to his father
when the book first appeared. The ori-
ginal ram when men understand what
each other mean. they sec. for the most
part. that controversy IL either super
fuous or hopeless Bagehot's rendering
was. .When we have stated our terms and
cleared our ground, all controversy Is, for
the most part. either superduous or uso-
less The same thing was said in SUBJ
stance by Archbishop Whately. when he
enlarged upon the primary Importance Of
beginning q discussion with definitions
Ward showed Grant DUR q notebook Of
Newmans. kept during tho later years OF
his life, In which he jotted down from time
to time his reflections on religious and
philosophical subjects. Among the en-
tries which struck our author was an ao-
count OF Newmans recei wing the Com
munion, for the first time. in the chapel Of
Trinity College, Oxford, and a passage
about the pregnant meanings OF the hymn
Lead, kindly light IN which Newman
said that the ruling idea 10 contained in the
words, .one step enough for me-" all be-
yond that belonging simply to the domain
Of faith. ~. r2.
We read that Colerdge (the Lord Chief
Justice) and our author were seldom to-
gether without talking of Newman, who,
bpiding opinions 80 entirely different from
theirs, exercised the same fascination
over both Of them One night Coleridge
quoted the epitaph which Newman had
written for himself: -Ex umbris ct inagi-
nibus In veritatem." On another occasion,
Grant Dun heard DR.. Klein. who was most
brilliant talker, mention incidentally that
when he went to see Newman he found
the htter's mind altogether hazy as TO
the very meaning Of the word biology.
He imagined chemistry to be department
Of 1t. Under date Of April 1894, the diary
records that Wilfrid Ward. who was at
work on the life OF Cardinal Wisenaan,
had been seeing something OF the few
persons still alive who were cognizant
OF the relations between the Cardinal and
Newman. One Of these few persons,
Father (Barnard) Smith, who preceded
his leader by several years in giving h, his
allegiance to Rome, went over to Little
more and saw Newman, who would not,
however, say one word to him, or. indeed,
70 tIlt Licu WHO lIuIleuihUcAy duIIUuuOe0
him, about the change in his religious
opinions which was becoming inevitable
Smith went back, nevertheless, to Wise-
man, and reported that Newman was COM
ing over to Catholicism, and coming immedi-
ately. What makes you think so2. said
his chief. indications so slight" was the
reply, that to you, who don't know Nev-
man, they would mean absolutely nothing,
while to me they amount to . demonstra-
tion." @Give me an instance said the
other. -Wen," was the reply, 'he asked
me to stay to dinner, Snd when dinner
was announced he oame down in d, pait
OF gray trousers; that. was decisive" "a,
Mrs. R. Ward told our author that, in,
her last interview with Newman, some
months before he died, she mentioned
to the Cardinal in a conversation. Which
had taken place at Childerss, three people,
one being their host. and another John
Morley, had discussed the question. :Who
were the two Englishmen OF their time
who had produced the greatest effect on
the mind Of the country" There was,
1t seems, difference Of opinion as 70 the
first, but all agreed in giving Newman
the second Of the two places. The Cardinal