The New York herald., 1921-07-31
The Cardinal was a wit

, Jesuits in London, the Newman con-
troversy (the work Of outsiders rather
than of the two men themselves), his
relations with Irish affairs and our
own DIR. McGlynn, his spiritual politics
and his labors in settling the great
London lockers strike, all these are
set down with a completeness as satis-
flying as it is historically valuable.
1t was Manning's unique lot in life
to have Punch reward him with a
Mother Goose Jingle for his work on
raeli put him into two of his novels
"Endymion" and ''Lothair." Mr.. Leslie
considers the portrait in "Lothair''-
the character is named Cardinal
Grandison-as being carefully drawn"
The picture reads: "Above middle
height, his stature seemed magnified
by the attenuation of his form. 1t
seemed that the soul never had so frail
and fragile a tenement. He was
dressed in dark cassock with a red
border, and wore scarlet stockings, and
over his cassock a purple tippet. and
on his breast a small golden cross. His
countenance was, naturally, of an ex-
treme pallor though at this moment
slightly flushed with the animation of
a deeply interesting conference. His
cheeks were hollow, and his gray eyes
seemed sunk into his clear and noble
brow, but they flashed with irresistible
penetration" Leslie notes that Man
ning's eyes were dark brown end not
gray" Ruskin was very severe on
the Watts portrait of the Cardinal in
the National Portrait Gallery, and
Manning said Of it when he noticed the
reflection of his robes in his features:
Tell Mr. Watts that he has made
me a tippler and / am a teetotaller!" 4"
His humor was better than this in his
three stages of a lawyer: HE gets on,
sets honor gets honest; and when he
was offered a London paper as a
church organ he asked: Don't you
think there is something incongruous
between latest sporting and latest &C.
Clesiastical?" Dumas's Dame aux
Camelias" he described as ''transfig-
ured prof1igacy and unchastity in
Laloes."
The underhanded schemer that
Strachey pictured fades before this
personal resume of his own character
written after Manning had been made
Archbishop in 1865: II feel thankful
that this has not come upon me
sooner, for if l were ten years younger
7 should be ten years foolisher. .
] don't think any pleasure or society
or worldly honor have hold over me.
/ have been so long unpopular and
disliked and misrepresented that /
hope l have expiated the flood of un-
popularity 1 had before / was in the
truth and healed of the temptation
for the future. BIT / must watch
over this, and If at any time / cease
to find pleasure in the lowest and
hardest works of the pastoral care, or
is ever soften down the truth or am
silent when / ought to speak out, l
shall have the sign that the world is
still in me-" And of Newman he wrote
toward the end of his life: During all
this time I can declare that l have
cherished the old friendship between
all these years I have never had a
feeling Of offence or of resentment
against Newman. / hegan with great
admiration. a true affection and warm
friendship. I always regarded him as
so far above me in gifts and culture of
every kind that have never had a
temptation to rivalry or jealousy"