Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-08
SUNDAY SCHOOLS y
WiIfrid Ward
VIII Lecture
i'm his City
English Catholic Controversial
ist to Speak in Shubert
Theatre Nov. 10.

ISL OF the present DAY, mas Salled IOf
this country to deliver a series of
lectures. He will speak in this city
a week from tomorrow night in Shu-
bert's Theatre. His subject will be
Three English Cardinals-Wiseman
Newman and Manning" In connec-
ton with the affair there will be a
musical concert which will be fea-
tured by the appearance of singers
of more than average ability.
Mr.. Ward was born at old Hall,
England, in 1856. He. is the son Of
DIR. William George Ward whom
Tennyson CHS friend and neighbor
in the Isle of Wight hailed in verse
as the most generous of Ultra
montanes." In 1905 he assumed the
editorship of "The Dublin Review"
an organ made justly famous, though
on somewhat different tracks, by his
father before him. AS a controversial
ist on the philosophy of religion
has taken, place among the pu
licists of his day ever since he CT
tered the lists with 1.-THE Wish
Believe" q volume which made i
mark when he was only twenty
eight.
He comes from family which has
for many generations been distin-
guished in literature. His ancestor
Robert Plummer Ward Q765-1S46), of
Gilston Park, Hertfordshire, was au-
thor of THE History and Law of
Nations and of "Tremaine," a novel
which made an immense sensation
sxr1,n Cd IN, "a Va q
also a friend of William Pitt, under
whom he held office in 1905 as under
secretary of foreign affairs. Rob
ert" Ward" writes Lord Stanhope,
in his Life of Pitt" was man of
some note in politics, but much more
In literature and will be remembered
by posterity chiefly as the author of
'Tremaine.' -
Writer of Distinction.
Another member of the family who
wrote with distinction was the late
Sir Henry George Ward, governor of
Madras, whose work on Mexico has
long been q standard one.
Mr.. Wards father, William George
Ward, was famous as one of the
leaders of the Oxford movement, and
as a writer on philosophy. Two chap
ters are devoted to his share In the
movement by Dean Church in his
history of the oxford Revival. His
brother, Monsignor Ward, is the au-
thor of several historical works, his
most recent being THE Eve of
Catholic Emancipation"
Mrs. Wilfrid Ward, a daughter of
the late Mr.. Hope-Scott and a niece
of the Duke of Norfolk, Is also a
writer of distinction in the field of
al
ple," attained very large circula-
ton. 1t has been succeeded by sew
eral more, Horace Blake" being the
most recent.
Wilfrid Wards principal works are:
The life of his father, w. G. Ward;
1.-The life and Times of Cardinal
Wiseman," witnesses to the I'm
SEEM" Problems and Persons and
THE Life of Cardinal Newman.
That great critic, Richard Hutton
writing In The Spectator, character
| lied the Life of w. G. Ward" as
zone of the most effective pieces OF
pictorial biography" Mr.. Gladstone
wrote of it to the publisher: Il can
not help saying that in my opinion
Mr.. Ward has executed very diff
cult task with singular tact, ability
and equity. The last chapter raises
some disputable questions on which
find myself differing rather widely
from Mr.. Ward on the relation of the
oxford Revival to the Liberal move
rnent of our times, but / do not ex-
cept that chapter from the terms or
the tribute / have rendered" The
late Sir M u. Grant Duff said of
Mr.. Ward fifteen years ago in re-
view of his Life and Times of Car
dinal Wiseman: IF Wilfrid Ward
wrote In French he would not be con-
sidered at all presumptuous II he
hoped for an early place among the
forty of the Academic Franchise.
His Life of Cardinal Newman has
been received by the English press
with q chorus of praise That emil
nent divine, DR. Nebille Figgis, wrote
in reference to It: eff any living man
has the right to be accounted the
Intellectual heir OF Cardinal New
man. Mr.. Wilfrid Ward is that man"
Active in Educational Work.
Bes des his achievements in the field
of literature, active In educational
work, Wilfrid Ward has long taken
part in the educational movements OF
the day and the movements of re-
ligious thought. It was he who in
1898 wrote the memorandum which
was forwarded to Rome signed by
the Duke of Norfolk and others, as
well as himself, setting forth the
reasons for withdrawing the prohibl-
ton which had for years prevented
the English Catholics from frequent
ing oxford and Cambr dge. The pro-
hibition was withdrawn the follow
ing year. Mr.. Ward has for thirty
wears been one of the council OF the
Catholic Union of Great Britain, and
I'm 1902 was O member of the Royal
Comm 'ssion appointed to inquire into
the university education in Ireland
with a view to securing adequate ia
cilties for Irish Catholics In this de-
partment He Is also a member or
the Catholic University Education
Board. In 1896 Mr.. Ward set on foot
the Synthetic Society. OF which ne
was for twelve years the honorary
secretary. The object OF the society
was the discussion of the ph'loso-
phical basis of the primary truths or
religion with a view to celebrating a
philosophy of belief adapted to mod
ern conditions. -,
Miss Rosemario Campbell will be
heard during the evening IN 70 Don
Fatale," by Verdi and group OF Eng
llsh songs. or her voice, critic III
'0The Musical Courier" said: Miss
Campbell possesses a voice, contrauo
in tImbre, that has the upward range
of a mezzo Soprano 1t is warm ana
musical in quality, sVolumlnouS in
tone and SO finely controlled that it
responds easily to the singers inten-
ton.
Miss Campbell also is endowed with
an intelligence and u temperament
which enable her to impart a finish
and color to the phrase that empha-
sizes the charm in the musical set
ting of the text and effectively COM
municates the sentiment Of the song
to her hearers"
New York University Dean