Historical sketches
By: by John Henry Cardinal Newman.
Contributors: Newman, John Henry, 1801-1890.
Edition: New impression.
Publisher: Longmans, Green, & Co.
Published: 1903
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Subjects: History.; Universities and colleges.
Notes: Originally appeared in 1854, in the columns of the Dublin "Catholic University Gazette." In 1856 they were published in one volume, under the title of "Office and work of universities."

Dark blue endpapers.
Table of contents: title: v.1. Rise and progress of universities. Northmen and Normans in England and Ireland. Medieval Oxford. Convocation of Canterbury; title: v.2. The Turks in their relation to Europe. Marcus Tullius Cicero. Apollinius of tyana. Primitive Christianity; title: v.3. The church of the Fathers. St. Chrysostom. Theodoret. Mission of St. Benedict. Benedictine schools.