New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-20
CARDINAL NEWMAN
A Welcome New Edition Of His
Apologize"

APoLoGIA PRO VITA sUA. BY John
Henry Cardinal Newman. Reprint OF
the First Edition $3.50. Together WIN
the Two Preliminary Pamphlets: "
Mr. kingsley and nd, DR.; ;.,I NeWna Then.
Does Dr.. Newman Mean: 4 RePlXy, , by
the Rev Charles Kingsley bqltea
with Introduction by the Rev; John
Gamble. b. D.. Vicar OF 81 Mar g.
Leigh Woods. Bristol In two volumes.
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The Walter Scott Publishing Com
pany has added to its library of The
Worlds Best Books the Apologize
Pro Vita Sua" Of John Henry Cardinal
/ Newman, in two volumes. The reprint
is OF the first edition 1850. and con-
tains. therefore, the correspondence
between Newman and Charles Kings
! lev and the Appendix exhibiting the
| forty "blots" save one-as discovered
| by Newman in Kingsley's accusations
and arguments. In the second and
later editions Newman omitted much
Of the directly controversial matter
feeling that the polerhical part would
have a merely ephemeral interest, and
that posterity =, ould be more likely 10
! concern itself with his history of his
religious opinions than with the cir
cumstances which had caused that his
tory TO be written. Yet, as Mr.. Gam
BILE, in his admirable introduction 20
the reprint, observes, there can be 40
doubt OF the great superiority Of the
first edition. It's passionate tenacity
4, Of argument reveals the soul OF the
! writer no less than the autobiography
proper.
Mr.. Wilfred Wards life Of Cardinal
/ Newman has given us better means
| than has hitherto been available OF
seeing the stress under which the
| Oratorian wrote the Apologize" and
! therein confronted, not only the blunt
exclamations OF Charles Kingsley, but
| also the equally real and hardly more
reticent suspectings of the Protestant
| British public. Twenty years after he
| had quilted oxford and Withdrawn
| from the Church Of England, Newman
was living the relatively obscure lie
of the Oratory at Edgbaston, and was
ready to complain that for many years
| it had been the blessed will of God to
send him nothing but baulks." Nearly
every project nourished by Newman
with a view to advancing Catholic In
terests in England had been thwarted
by those in authority. until 1t seemed
that he must needs, like his patron
saint, Philip Neri, endeavor to look
upon neglect as a guerdon. 1t was
at the beginning of the year 1864 that
some one sent him a marked copy OF
the current "Macmillan's," where a re-
view, signed &C. H." and dealing with
certain volumes Of Froude's History
Of England" went aside to remark:
Truth for its own sake had never been
virtue with the Roman clergy.
Father Newman informs us that it
need not be, and on the whole ought
not to be-" Newman quickly drew the
publishers attention to this grave and
gratutous SANDER" and the CORE
spondence with Charles Kingsley fol-
lowed. The letters were made public,
whereupon Kingsley issued pamphlet
entitled, What, Then, Does DR.. New
man Mean?" in which the original i'm
putation was not fully withdrawn.
Since the Apologize" was offered as an
answer. 1t is we'll that the screed that
called forth so memorable a response
should be made, as in the preset vol
umes, a part Of the dossier.
In his brief review Of Newmans in
huence in the Tractarian movement,
Mr. Gamble recalls Dean Stanley's
comment, How different the fortunes
i of the Church OF England might have
been If Newman ad been able to read
| German" Though the Dean spoke
wittily. his words need not be pressed.
Hegel has been heard OF by many who
are Of the Cardinals household Of
faith. The young evangelical in Ok