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It is his glory that Froude cannot be severed, early or late, from the superior genius once so ‘fain to be his heir.’ As he stands fast with what Mr. Wilfrid Ward has named ‘that great crisis of spiritual animation, unparalleled in our age and country,’ which has transformed the Church of England, and with his Achates, as that Achates was up to 1845, so he walks on with the white-haired Cardinal of all men’s honour, through whom a torrent of new life streamed, and streams, into the English-speaking children of the Apostolic See, but who

‘――came to Oxford and his friends no more.’

Newman’s unnecessary readiness to acknowledge any moral debt, was surely no small part of his delightful greatness. Never was it better justified than in his lifelong sense of obligation to the clear brain and pure devout heart of a young man of no celebrity, whose full significance is not past, but to come.

To a Catholic, Froude has something yet finer than his ‘totality and universality of character.’ He has the grace of God. He stands in a mysterious place,

‘Beautiful evermore, and with the rays
Of dawn on his white shield of expectation,’

and it would be covetous indeed, it might be even impious, to wish to dislodge him. Such as he is, and where he is, he stands pledge enough for Reunion. Meanwhile, let him enjoy the irony for what it is worth, that to compensate for many of his own who esteem him not, many ‘swallowers of the Council of Trent as a whole’ esteem him well. The English Oratory has for him a sort of veneration, as for a little brother lost who had Saint Philip’s very brow and mouth;[293] the Benedictine monks at Buckfast Abbey, near his old home, familiarly remember him, on birthdays, with prayer which is both a gift and a petition; and there are lay hearts which cannot think of his lonely burial-place, in snow-time or in rose-time, without the sense of hearing over it a solemn music from the _Purgatorio_:

‘_Qui sarai tu poco tempo silvano;
E sarai meco senza fine cive
Di quella Roma onde Cristo è Romano._’

That wonderful prophetic strain, meant for eternity, must linger in the ear of every ‘Roman’ who has learned to love Hurrell Froude.

THE END.

[1] The present Editor once hit upon a copy of the _Remains_
in a bookstall, which had many of these names filled out in
pencil; several of them, not all, proved to be accurate, and
have been incorporated without acknowledgment to a nameless
and deceased annotator.

[2] ‘What is Mysticism?’ in _The Faith of the Millions_.
First Series. By George Tyrrell, S.J. Longmans, 1901, pp.
254-255.

[3] _Un Grand Feudataire, Renaud de Dammartin de la
Coalition de Bouvines._ Par H. Malo. Paris: Champion, 1898.

[4] _Reminiscences chiefly of Oriel College and the Oxford
Movement_, by the Rev. T. Mozley, M.A. London: Longmans,
Green & Co., 1882, ii., 42-43.

[5] See p. 75. The incident was recognised by the Rev. T.
Mozley when he again saw the sketch, in 1891, as having
taken place in the Common Room, not in ‘Newman’s rooms.’

[6] _A Study of British Genius_, by Havelock Ellis. London;
Hurst & Blackett, 1904, p. 53. The passages cited first
appeared in _The Monthly Review_, during 1901.

[7] This, and much of the condensed genealogical information
following, is from a paper on the Froudes or Frowdes of
Devon in the _Reports and Transactions of the Devonshire
Association_, 1892, written by the Rev. R. E. Hooppell,
M.A., LL.D., D.C.L.

[8] Always so spelled, in this family.

[9] Archdeacon Froude, sixty years Rector of his parish,
died Feb. 23, 1859. See _Gentleman’s Magazine_ for that
year, i., 437, and _Boase’s Modern English Biography_, i.,
1110.

[10] W. Brockedon, F.R.S., F.R.G.S. (b. 1787, d. 1854), was
a watchmaker and inventor at Totnes. In 1809 he was enabled
by Archdeacon Froude and Mr. Holdsworth, M.P. for
Dartmouth, to go up to London to study at the Royal Academy
till 1815, when he went abroad and started upon his career.

[11] ‘Poor Att’ [little Anthony Froude], Hurrell wrote in
1828, ‘is such a very good-tempered little fellow that in
spite of his sawneyness [_i.e._, sensitiveness, or softness]
he is sure to be liked.’ ‘I,’ he goes on to say, ‘was an
ill-natured sawney, and do not at all wish my time at School
to come again.’

[12] _Eton School Lists_, edited by H. E. Chetwynd.
Stapleton, 1864.

[13] She married William Mallock, Esq. The distinguished
writer, Mr. William Hurrell Mallock, is their son.

[14] The ‘Passon Chowne’ of Mr. Blackmore’s _Maid of Sker_.

[15] 1826.

[16] ‘To do our best is one part, but to wash our hands
smilingly of the consequence is the next part of any
sensible virtue.’ _The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson._
New York: Scribner, 1899, i., 342.

[17] _i.e._ extravagant or emotional.

[18] In the now obsolete sense of fanaticism.

[19] Oxford.

[20] ‘Mere’ in _Remains_.

[21] Archdeacon Froude had come into possession of his
Denbury estate, through the three coheiresses of the last
feoffee, in 1807, when his eldest son was four years old.

[22] His two elder sisters are always so called in his
letters.

[23] Keble quitted Oxford when his mother died, and took
sole charge of East Leach, Burthorpe and Southrop parishes,
near his father’s home in Fairford. He had one thousand
people to look after, in all; the three livings aggregated
but £100 a year.

[24] The Rev. S. Baring-Gould, _The Book of the West_.
Devon, i., 319.

[25] Buckland-in-the-Moor, near Ashburton, celebrated for
its rocky heights and magnificent views.

[26] Mr. Keble’s first visit.

[27] Milton, as early as 1817, was one of Keble’s own big
bold prejudices. It is but fair to Froude to quote, in order
that his remark may not be misconstrued, his conviction that
‘it is not perhaps too much to say that [Milton’s] was the
most powerful mind which ever applied itself to poetry.’
Like Professor Raleigh in our own day, Froude denied that
colossal genius to be, properly speaking, a religious poet
at all. See _Remains_, part i., ii., 318-321, and Note.

[28] The moral philosophers of the ancient world.

[29] Phillis, widow of Robert ffroud.

[30] Torquay.

[31] Peter Elmsley, S.T.P., 1773-1825, then Principal of S.
Alban Hall, and Camden Professor of History in the
University of Oxford.

[32] _A Memoir of the Rev. John Keble, M.A., late Vicar of
Hursley_, by the Right Hon. Sir J. T. Coleridge, D.C.L.
Oxford: Parker, 1869, p. 121.

[33] _i.e._, poetry.

[34] ‘His rapier he’d draw,
And pink a _bourgeois_,

(A word which the English translate “Johnny Raw”).’――‘The
Black Mousquetaire,’ _Ingoldsby Legends_.

[35] There is no old elm tree now on Dartington Parsonage
lawn [1902].

[36] Piercefield Park, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, where
Elizabeth Smith had lived from 1785 to 1793.

[37] Her translation of the _Memoirs of Frederick and
Margaret Klopstock_ form, in most editions, the second
volume of Miss Elizabeth Smith’s _Fragments_. ‘Old
Klopstock’: Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, 1724-1803, married
Margarethe Möller (Meta) who died in 1758; and in 1791, in
his sixty-eighth year, her cousin Johannah von Wenthem.

[38] Dr. Charles Lloyd, 1784-1829; then Canon of Christ
Church, and Regius Professor of Divinity in the University
of Oxford, appointed a year later Bishop of Oxford.

[39] The first was Robert Isaac Wilberforce, 1802-1857,
second son of William Wilberforce, and the flower of a
remarkable family of brothers. He became Vicar of East
Farleigh, preceding there his brother Henry, and Archdeacon
of the East Riding. He died at Albano in 1857, while
preparing for the priesthood at Rome.

[40] _Oriel College_ (College History Series), by David
Watson Rannie, M.A. London: Robinson, 1900, p. 185.

[41] _Reminiscences chiefly of Oriel College and the Oxford
Movement_, by the Rev. T. Mozley, M.A. London: Longmans,
1882, ii., 388.

[42] Merton College lies south-east over against Oriel: the
beautiful tower stands up just behind the roof of Hurrell’s
rooms.

[43] Hurrell seems to have known and liked his senior,
Edward Hawkins (1798-1884, Fellow of Oriel, 1813, Provost,
succeeding Copleston, 1828), at this time. But ‘not the
least of a Don’ is emphatically not descriptive of him, but
of Richard Whately, 1787-1863, afterwards Archbishop of
Dublin. ‘No Don was ever less donnish … he revelled in
setting conventions at naught,’ etc. Dr. Rigg, in the
_Dictionary of National Biography_, lx., 423-429, _inter
alia_.

[44] John Davison, 1777-1834, Fellow and Tutor of Oriel,
afterwards Vicar of Old Sodbury, Gloucester, and Prebendary
of Worcester Cathedral. He had a very high repute at Oxford,
and, like Whately, was mentioned ‘with bated breath.’

[45] ‘Newman’s relations with Whately largely cured him of
the extreme shyness that was natural to him.’ W. S. Lilly,
in the _Dictionary of National Biography_, xi., 342.

[46] Probably Hurrell’s old friend, Robert Isaac
Wilberforce, then, like himself, a newly-made Fellow of
Oriel. (‘Old’ was Hurrell’s most endearing adjective: he
applies it unexpectedly in one letter: ‘old Becket.’) Robert
Wilberforce’s temperament was far more studious and calm
than that of his genial younger brothers, but apparently he
could be ‘funny’ and ‘good-natured’ too. ‘R. Wilberforce was
as merry as he generally is,’ writes his hostess, Mrs.
Rickards, from Ulcombe, to Miss Jemima Newman, in the autumn
of 1827.

[47] Keble.

[48] ‘To’ in _Remains_.

[49] Isaac Williams, 1802-1865: Scholar of Trinity,
afterwards perpetual Curate of Treyddn, Flintshire, and
author of _The Cathedral_.

[50] Sir George Prevost, Bart., 1804-1893, M.A., Oriel,
1827, married Jane, sister of Isaac Williams, 1828. Curate
to Thomas Keble at Bisley, 1828-1834: afterwards perpetual
Curate of Stinchcomb and Archdeacon of Gloucester.

[51] See p. 236 for Mr. Keble’s rebuke to Hurrell for a
verbal flippancy. ‘When at Oxford, I took up Law’s _Serious
Call to a Holy Life_, expecting to find it a dull book, as
such books generally are, and perhaps laugh at it. But I
found Law quite an over-match for me; and this was the first
occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I
became capable of rational inquiry.’ _Boswell’s Johnson_,
edited by George Birkbeck Hill, i., 68.

[52] _The Exemplary Life and Character of James Bonnell,
Esq. [1653-1699], late Accomptant General of Ireland_, by
William Hamilton, A.M., Archdeacon of Armagh. The book was
first published in 1703.

[53] The common flash going on. R. H. F.’s note.

[54] A foot wanting. R. H. F., _ut supra_.

[55] Edward Copleston, 1776-1849: from 1814 to 1828 Provost
of Oriel, afterwards Bishop of Llandaff. The Hurrells had
Copleston blood.

[56] _Reminiscences chiefly of Oriel College and the Oxford
Movement_, by the Rev. T. Mozley, M.A. London: Longmans,
1882, i., 384.

[57] From the chapter entitled Edward Hawkins, the Great
Provost, in _Lives of Twelve Good Men_, by John William
Burgon, pp. 208-209.

[58] ‘Bob.’

[59] William Ralph Churton, Fellow of Oriel, the brilliant
and much-loved younger brother of the better-known Edward
Churton, Archdeacon of Cleveland. He died at his home in
Middleton Cheney, Northamptonshire, during the following
month. His _Remains_ were privately printed in 1830, and are
dedicated to the then Archbishop of Canterbury, and to nine
clergymen, the Oxonians Keble, Ogilvie, Cotton, Perceval,
and Froude among them. Their friendship, says the Preface,
‘honoured him in his death’; perhaps they bore together the
expenses of publication. There is nothing particularly
memorable in the book.

[60] Misprinted ‘situated’ in R. H. F.’s _Remains_.

[61] _John Henry Newman, Letters and Correspondence to
1845._ Edited by Anne Mozley. Longmans, 1890, i., 103.

[62] _Short Studies on Great Subjects_, 4th Series. London:
Longmans, 1883, p. 235.

[63] _Reminiscences chiefly of Oriel College and the Oxford
Movement_, by the Rev. T. Mozley, M.A., sometime Fellow of
Oriel. London: Longmans, 1882, i., 18.

[64] Sculptor. How recently has ‘statuary’ become an
obsolete word!

[65] A print of it appears in the _Remains_, i., 235.

[66] _John Henry Newman, Letters and Correspondence to
1845_, i., 8.

[67] The interval of a second in music: an amusing
employment of the word, in this sense then, as now, obsolete
and rare.

[68] _The Christian Year_: Forms of Prayer to be Used at
Sea, line 5, not quite correctly quoted:

‘The wild winds rustle in the piping shrouds
As in the quivering trees.’

[69] Joseph Dornford, 1794-1868, Fellow of Oriel; after a
military career, Rector of Plymtree, Devon, and Canon of
Exeter Cathedral. He had travelled in Ireland this summer.

[70] The word now has come to imply a sort of hero-worship
based on a questionable social motive; but in Froude’s day
it meant only those who showed, described, or patronised
celebrated places, these being the ‘lions.’

[71] A half-legendary contemporary of S. Columbkille. Sir
Walter Scott had crawled into the Hole or Bed at Glendalough
in 1825.

[72] _Remains of the Rev. Richard Hurrell Froude_, part i.,
ii., 318, Note.

[73] At Greenaway on the Dart, between Dartmouth and Totnes,
opposite Dittisham.

[74] The lines were written in some lady’s autograph album
during this visit.

[75] _The Christian Year_: Septuagesima Sunday, closing
stanza.

[76] Arthur, eldest son of Arthur Champernowne, Esq., of
Dartington Hall, died during this year, 1831, aged 17. His
next brother Henry died in 1851, aged 36.

[77] Newman, _Letters and Correspondence_, ii., 73.

[78] Of course in allusion to the proverb that rain on July
15 (S. Swithun’s Day) means a more or less prolonged
downpour.

[79] William I., King of the Netherlands, formerly William
Frederick, Prince of Orange.

[80] Thomas Elrington, M.A., D.D., formerly President of
Trinity College, Dublin, an active and devoted prelate. He
lived until July 12, 1835.

[81] The name of the Bishop who was the great antagonist of
the Lollards, Fellow of Oriel in his day, is properly
spelled Pecock.

[82] ‘The Time-Spirit of the Nineteenth Century,’ in
_Problems and Persons_, by Wilfrid Ward. Longmans, 1903.

[83] Robert Isaac Wilberforce. His mind was truly profound,
and it was ‘authentic,’ to borrow the word beautifully
applied to him in a memorial verse of his friend Mr. Aubrey
de Vere.

[84] On Justice as a Principle of Divine Governance.
_University Sermons_, VI.

[85] Neander: this playful Hellenising of Newman’s name was
general, at one time, among Oxonians of his own circle.

[86] Henry Bellenden Bulteel (1800-1866), a Devonshire man,
Fellow and Tutor of Exeter College, Hurrell’s former
contemporary at Eton. He got into difficulties with the
Church of England and the University in 1831; after his
calling the Heads of Houses ‘dumb dogs,’ from the pulpit of
S. Mary’s, Bishop Bagot revoked his licence; he then married
a pastry-cook’s sister in the High Street, spent £4000
building the Baptist Chapel in the Commercial Road, and set
up as an independent dissenting minister. He was the
anonymous author of _The Oxford Argo_. A good deal laughed
at in his day, Bulteel had, according to evidence, the
sympathy of Hurrell Froude in his ill fortunes. ‘Froude went
about for days with a rueful countenance, and could only
say: “Poor Bulteel!”’ _Reminiscences_, Mozley, i., 228.

[87] James Yonge, M.D., F.C.P., 1794-1870, a graduate of
Exeter College, Oxford, and resident at Plymouth, where his
practice was famous in its day, all over England.

[88] Of Oriel College.

[89] Hurrell had visited Keble there early in April, and
caught a fresh cold.

[90] See p. 257.

[91] Prosperity, in _Lyra Apostolica_. Edited by H. C.
Beeching, M.A. London: Methuen [1900], p. 146.

[92] Mary Sophia Newman, the youngest of the family, died,
aged 17, on January 5, 1828.

[93] _Histoire de la Conquête de l’Angleterre par les
Normands._ Par Augustin Thierry. Paris: Santelet, 1826.
Tomes 1-4, 2de edition, 8o.

[94] A sentimental complaining fellow: the ‘dreary
prospects’ being the prospects of a single life devoted to
moral reforms.

[95] The usurper of the Portuguese crown, third son of King
John VI. The English destroyed his fleet off Cape St.
Vincent, July 5, 1833.

[96] ‘Stare’ in the _Remains_.

[97] Six weeks later, an English lady, Miss Frere, writes
home from Malta of our three tourists, ‘Archdeacon Froude,
his son, and another clergyman’ … ‘all very agreeable.’ She
laments the ill-health of Mr. Newman, but adds that ‘the
son, on whose account they are travelling, is quite well.’
_Works of the Rt. Hon. John Hookham Frere_, vol. i., Memoir,
by the Rt. Hon. Sir Bartle Frere. London: Pickering, 1874,
p. 242.

[98] Newman says, ‘It was at Rome that we began the _Lyra
Apostolica_’ (_Apologia_, 1890, p. 34); this letter
antedates the arrival at Rome by some days. Newman dates the
_Lyra_ from Froude’s choosing its motto from the _Odyssey_
on the eve of magazine publication.

[99] The Rev. C. A. Ogilvie? or Frederick Oakeley? or the
young Devonian Nutcombe Oxenham, who, like Isaac Williams,
his tutor and lifelong friend, was a Scholar of Trinity? The
associates of Mr. Williams were almost exclusively of Oriel.

[100] Froude had visited Samuel Wilberforce there, at
Brighstone.

[101] ‘We are keeping the most wretched Christmas Day … by
bad fortune we are again taking in coals…. This morning we
saw a poor fellow in the Lazaret, close to us, cut off from
the ordinances of his Church, saying his prayers with his
face to the house of God in his sight over the water; and it
is a confusion of face to me…. The bells are beautiful here
… deep and sonorous, and they have been going all morning:
to me very painfully.’ Newman to his sister Harriett,
_Letters and Correspondence_, i., 274.

[102] Major John Longley, afterwards Lieutenant-Governor of
Dominica. Charles Thomas Longley, Head Master of Harrow
School from 1829 to 1836, became Archbishop of Canterbury.
Cythera is Cerigo.

[103] Spiridion or Spiridon, patron of the island, Bishop of
Tremithus near Salamis, present at the first General Council
of Nice, and at the Council of Sardica. The Greeks keep his
feast on the 12th, the Western Church on the 14th of
December.

[104] [Mount Scollis in Elis.]

[105] _Correspondence_, i., 293-300, _passim_: and p. 332.

[106] The well-known novel by Susan Edmonstone Ferrier,
published at first anonymously in 1818. A beautiful edition,
marking some revival of popularity, was issued in 1902.

[107] He could jump well, too: ‘a larking thing for a Don!’
as he tells his mother. _Letters and Correspondence_, i.,
159.

[108] Provinces now merged in the kingdom of Roumania.

[109] _Life and Letters of Frederick William Faber, D.D.,
Priest of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri_, by John Edward
Bowden of the same Congregation. Richards, 1869, p. 78.

[110] A quaint phrase from the Oriel Statutes. They read:
‘_Quoniam omnia existentia tendunt ad non esse_.’

[111] ‘I am drawn to [Sicily] as by a loadstone. The chief
sight has been Egesta: its ruins with its Temple. O
wonderful sight! full of the most strange pleasure…. It has
been a day in my life to have seen Egesta … really, my mind
goes back to the recollection of last Monday and Tuesday, as
one smells again and again at a sweet flower.’ Newman to his
sister Harriett, _Letters and Correspondence_, i., 302.

[112] Joseph Severn, Keats’ friend, 1793-1879.

[113] Friedrich Overbeck, 1789-1869. He became a Catholic in
1814.

[114] Rev. Hugh James Rose, founder and editor: 1795-1838,
M.A. of Cambridge University, Rector of Hadleigh, Suffolk;
Principal of King’s College, London.

[115] ‘On The Hateful Party: probably the Liberal Party of
1833.’ _Lyra Apostolica_, Beeching’s edition, p. 140. But
possibly the reference is to the English Reformers, and the
poet’s idea that they should be considered serviceable, in a
way, to the very spirit of Catholicism which they did their
best to destroy. However, the context of Froude’s letter to
Keble, going on to mention, as it does, a current political
interest as inspiration (not forthcoming) for the next copy
of verses, tends to bear out Mr. Beeching’s theory. _Lyra
Apostolica_ began as a separate poetic section of _The
British Magazine_ in June, 1833. The poem above is an
unconscious expansion of S. Augustine’s _Ne putetis gratis
esse malos in hoc mundo, et nihil boni de illis agere Deum_.

[116] Exactly what this interpretation was is not apparent
from Lord Grey’s biographers, nor from his _Letters_. On
this ground, he was suspect, after his significant remark in
the House of Lords, on May 7, 1832: ‘I do not like, in this
free country, to use the word Monarchy.’

[117] Christian Carl Josias, Baron Bunsen, 1791-1860,
Minister Plenipotentiary, and German Ambassador to England
from 1841-1854.

[118] Misread, and misprinted ‘ability’ in the _Remains_.

[119] The first audit at Oriel, Mr. Christie being then, as
Froude’s successor, Junior Treasurer of the College.

[120] Afterwards Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster.

[121] [All this must not be taken literally, being a jesting
way of stating to a friend what really was the fact, viz.,
that he and another availed themselves of the opportunity of
meeting a learned Romanist to ascertain the ultimate points
at issue between the Churches.] Note, _Remains_, 1838, i.,
306.

[122] Newman writes to a friend then out of England, R. F.
Wilson, Esq., on Sept. 8 following: ‘… If we look into
history, whether in the age of the Apostles, St. Ambrose’s,
or St. Becket’s [_sic_], still the people were the fulcrum
of the Church’s power. So they may be again. Therefore,
expect on your return … to see us all cautious, long-headed,
unfeeling, unflinching Radicals.’ Newman, _Letters and
Correspondence_, i., 399.

[123] The contributors to the _Lyra_ numbered but six, in
the end. Mr. Christie is not among them.

[124] Sir Edmund Walker Head, Bart., 1805-1868, an
accomplished Oriel man, Fellow of Merton, M.A., D.C.L.,
F.R.S., and K.C.B., Governor-General of Canada, author of a
_Handbook of the Spanish and French Schools of Painting_,
and of various philological and literary essays. Hurrell
might have named also a young Mr. Gladstone, late of Christ
Church, already eminent in the Oxford academic world and
beyond it, who spent a good part of this year, 1832-1833, in
Italy.

[125] William Whewell, 1794-1866: Master of Trinity College,
Cambridge. The particular ‘book’ may be, judging from the
context and the date, the _Astronomy and General Physics,
considered with Reference to Natural Theology_.

[126] Adam Sedgwick, 1785-1873: Woodwardian Professor of
Geology in the University of Cambridge.

[127] Connop Thirlwall, 1797-1875: historian and Bishop of
S. David’s.

[128] Julius Charles Hare, 1795-1855, of Trinity College,
Cambridge, afterwards Incumbent of Hurstmonceaux, and
Archdeacon of Lewes. Like Thirlwall, he was a familiar
friend of Baron Bunsen. For a passing instance of the
‘puffing’ contemned by Froude, see _Memorials of a Quiet
Life_, 1876, iii., 224.

[129] John of Salisbury, afterwards Bishop of Chartres, the
companion and biographer of S. Thomas à Becket, and ‘for
thirty years the central figure of English learning.’
(Stubbs, _Lectures_, p. 139.) He was born _circa_ A.D. 1118,
and died in the year 1180.

[130] Anglicised Latin, that is: Latin taught with the
Continental pronunciation, or any approach to it, being
unheard-of in the England of that time.

[131] _Remains of William Ralph Churton_ (Private
Impression), 1830, p. 162.

[132] _Reminiscences_, etc., i., 294.

[133] Froude means the Abbé de Lamennais, Lacordaire,
Montalembert, and their friends, to whom he was strongly
attracted. Lacordaire, newly withdrawn from _L’Avenir_, was
at this time at Nôtre Dame, not yet a Dominican. What a
friend he would have been for R. H. F.!

[134] The Absolutions, in the Book of Common Prayer.

[135] [Here, and in many other places, it is the author’s
way to bring forward as motives of action for himself and
others what were but secondary, and rather the reflection of
his mind upon its acts, and that as if with a view to avoid
the profession of high and great things. Such, too, is the
Scripture way: as where we are told to do good to our
enemies, as if ‘to heap coals of fire on their heads,’ and
to take the lowest place, in order to ‘have worship in the
presence’ of spectators.] Note, _Remains_, 1838, i., 314.

[136] The motto appears first in _The British Magazine_,
Dec., 1833, followed by: ‘Compare _Daniel_ i., 7.’

[137] Dan. xii., 13.

[138] The reading here, slightly altered and bettered from
the copy printed in the _Remains_, is from _Lyra
Apostolica_, 1836.

[139] Ezek. xxvii., 11.

[140] The text in 1833 has ‘wandering.’ The Rev. H. C.
Beeching adopts it, with this Note: ‘Perhaps the line should
run: “Far-wandering from the East.”’

[141] In _The British Magazine_ for May 1835 (vii., 518)
this poem first appears, and there bears no motto, and has
‘The Exchange’ for title. The title in the _Remains_ is
‘Farewell to Toryism.’

[142] S. Paul, Eph. ii., 8.

[143] _The Anglican Revival_, by J. H. Overton, D.D. London:
Blackie, 1897, p. 206.

[144] James William Bowden, 1798-1844, the most zealous lay
participant in the early Movement.

[145] _Reminiscences_, Mozley, i., 580.

[146] _Specimens of the Table-Talk of the late Samuel Taylor
Coleridge._ Murray, 1835, ii., 26. The curious inference may
be made, in regard to Froude’s Editors, that they did not
light upon Coleridge’s passage at first-hand, but that
somebody brought it to their attention: they, on their part,
had accomplished, by chance, the extraordinary feat of
ignoring Coleridge. ‘In extreme old age Newman wrote to a
friend: “I never read a word of Kant. I never read a word of
Coleridge…. I could say the same of Hurrell Froude, and also
of Pusey and Keble.”’ _Newman_, by William Barry. Literary
Lives Series. Hodder & Stoughton, 1904, p. 30. The inclusion
of the name of Dr. Pusey, Germanic by temperament and by his
line of study, is remarkable.

[147] This was July 9, 1833. The Froudes had never had word
by post since he had parted from them, and they knew
something had gone wrong.

[148] Arthur Philip Perceval, 1799-1853, of Oriel, brother
of Lord Arden, and Vicar of East Horsley; afterwards Royal
chaplain, and expounder of High Church principles, on one
celebrated occasion, before Queen Victoria.

[149] Nobody but Dean Hook calls him ‘learned,’ and the
concession may have been thrown in to balance the
depreciatory context. ‘With a kind heart and glowing
sensibilities, Mr. Froude united a mind of wonderful power,
saturated with learning, and from its very luxuriance
productive of weeds, together with many flowers.’ _A Call to
Union on the Principles of the English Reformation_, 2nd
ed., 1838, p. 167.

[150] _Remains_ of R. H. F., part i., ii., 307. On the
Causes of the Superior Excellence of the Poetry of Rude
Ages.

[151] This is not among his published Sermons, but may have
gone to make up the mosaic of State Interference papers in
the _Remains_, part ii., i., 184-269.

[152] ‘Snug’ in _Remains_.

[153] The Queen.

[154] _The British Magazine_ for July, 1833, vol. iii., The
Appointment of Bishops by the State. Correspondence under
the same title opens in the September number, v., 290 _et
seq._, signed ‘F.’

[155] Newman figures as responsible for it in the valuable
Appendix to the third volume of the _Life_ of Dr. Pusey.

[156] _Correspondence_, i., 421.

[157] John Mitchinson Calvert of Crosthwaite, Cumberland,
and of Oriel, M.A., M.D., who knew Froude well, and was his
own age.

[158] S. Thomas à Becket’s word for the poor.

[159] The ‘man’ is Jean Bon de St. André, Deputy to the
Convention for the Department of Lot during the Reign of
Terror; he was preferred by Napoleon, and died in 1813. He
was present when Earl Howe defeated the French fleet on June
1, 1794, and distinguished himself after the fashion
commemorated in the Elegy which appeared in the
_Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine_ on May 14, 1798, and was
the joint production of Canning, Gifford, and Frere:

‘Poor John was a gallant captain
In battles much delighting;
He fled full soon,
On the first of June,
But he bade the rest keep fighting.’

The stave appears again, of course, in _Poetry of the
Anti-Jacobin_, Edited with Explanatory notes by Charles
Edmonds, 3rd edition, London, Sampson Low, etc., 1890, p.
187. The _New Anti-Jacobin_, a brilliant monthly advocating
high Tory principles, sprang into life for April and May,
1833, and died. Froude must have been deeply interested in
it. Nothing we know of him is more engaging than this very
gallant applying to himself of such a quotation at such a
time, and for such a reason.

[160] Rev. Anthony Buller, 1809-1881, afterwards Rector of
Mary Tavy; ordained at Exeter on Oct. 27 of this year.

[161] _The Arians of the Fourth Century._

[162] Mr. Rose’s friend, William Rowe Lyall, 1788-1857, then
Archdeacon of Colchester, afterwards Dean of Canterbury.
Owing to Mr. Rose’s failing health, the two exchanged
livings this year, and Archdeacon Lyall remained at Hadleigh
till 1841, Mr. Rose having died in Italy.

[163] Of 1831.

[164] William Hart Coleridge, 1789-1849, brother to George,
Master of Ottery Free School; first Bishop of Barbados and
the Leeward Islands, 1824, and reorganiser of Codrington
College. He resigned in 1841, when the diocese was divided.

[165] ‘Unconnected’ in the text of the _Remains_, but
corrected in the little list of _errata_.

[166] This, of course, is one of the passages upon which the
Editors of the _Remains_ rely to prove negatively their
contention that Froude’s Anglicanism was immutably fixed.
The ‘Popery’ in this passage is not in its ‘grammatical
sense,’ but plainly refers to furtherance of O’Connell’s
measures.

[167] Jeremy Collier’s _Ecclesiastical History of Great
Britain_, first published in two volumes folio in 1708,
1714.

[168] Lieutenant-Colonel J. Lyons Nixon, L.G.

[169] [If they had had the _whole body_ of the English
Church in agreement with them. The sort and amount of
alteration which the writer probably contemplated may be
seen in _Tracts for the Times_, Via Media.] Note, _Remains_,
i., 348. So sure was Newman of R. H. F.’s posthumous
approbation.

[170] Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1786-1845, M.P., knighted in
1840, prison reformer (brother-in-law of Mrs. Fry), and
William Wilberforce’s successor as head of the Anti-slavery
party in England.

[171] John Spedding Froude.

[172] A ‘Z’ stood, in Tractarian, for an ‘Establishment
man.’

[173] Thus in the _Remains_, but ‘if,’ by a misprint, in The
Newman _Correspondence_, ii., 33.

[174] Keble was eleven years older than Froude, nine years
older than Newman.

[175] Founded by a bequest to the S.P.G. of Christopher
Codrington, 1668-1710, the munificent Fellow of All Souls,
Oxford; licensed by Queen Anne; opened as a Grammar School
in 1742; but not a Collegiate institution for West Indian
clergy, as originally intended, until 1830.

[176] To ‘battel’ is a verb purely Oxonian by origin.
Battels are a man’s College accounts for supplies from
kitchen and buttery, or else all College accounts, inclusive
of board, lodging, tuition, rates, and sundries.

[177] _The Arians of the Fourth Century; their Doctrine,
Temper, and Conduct, chiefly as Exhibited in the Councils of
the Church between A.D. 325 and A.D. 384_, by John Henry
Newman, M.A., Fellow of Oriel College. London: Rivingtons,
1833. The book is dedicated to Keble. The review is in _The
British Magazine_ for January, 1834, v., 67. Mr. T. Mozley
thinks that _The Arians_ is the landmark of Newman’s
progress from Low Church to High Church.

[178] There are two brief papers and a poem signed ‘C.’ in
_The British Magazine_ Supplement, Dec. 31, 1833, in vol.
iv. The matter referred to is probably that dealing
‘Apostolically’ with Confirmation and First Communion. The
Editor has not been able to identify ‘C.’

[179] This still exists, the tallest, (a huge tree in
Froude’s time,) being over one hundred feet high.

[180] Vol. v., pp. 667 _et seq._; vi., 380 _et seq._

[181] ‘Some one, I think, asked in conversation at Rome
[1833], whether a certain interpretation of Scripture was
Christian. It was answered that Dr. Arnold took it; I
interposed: “But is _he_ a Christian?” The subject went out
of my head at once.’ _Apologia pro Vita Sua_, 1890, p. 33.

[182] The Rev. George Dudley Ryder, second son of the Hon.
and Rt. Rev. Lord Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry. He
married in June, 1834, Sophia Lucy, youngest daughter of the
Rev. J. Sargent, Rector of Lavington, Sussex, sister of Mrs.
Henry and of Mrs. Samuel Wilberforce, and of Mrs. H. E.
Manning.

[183] To ‘rat,’ a favourite verb with the two hide-bound
purists who used it daily, means obviously to forsake or
abandon anything, as rats skurry away from a sinking ship.

[184] The Rev. John Hothersal Pinder, M.A., Cambridge, first
Principal, from 1830 to 1835, subsequently first Principal
of Wells Theological College.

[185] North-east of Torquay.

[186] Newman, prompted by Isaac Williams, and following
Thomas Keble at Bisley, had, unknown to Froude, begun a
month before to read the two Church services daily in the
chancel of S. Mary’s at Oxford: but a daily Eucharist was
then unheard of in the Church of England.

[187] _Reminiscences_, i., 217.

[188] Frederic Rogers, afterwards Lord Blachford, 1811-1889.
He had been Froude’s pupil, and also Newman’s, through a
dazzlingly brilliant University career. He occupied Froude’s
rooms at Oriel on staircase No. 3 for at least one term
during his absence.

[189] In reference to Lib. iv., Carm. iii., 19-20: Ad
Melpomenen.

[190] Vol. i., 369-372.

[191] J. H. N., _Letters and Correspondence_, i., 397-399.

[192] _Essays Critical and Historical_, by John Henry
Cardinal Newman. London: Longmans, 1891, ii., 375.

[193] _Chronicle of Convocation, Sessions, July 3-6, 1887._
The capitals occur there, as here.

[194] J. H. N., _Letters and Correspondence_, i., 423.

[195] John Tucker, 1793-1873, Fellow of Corpus Christi
College, and at this time Dean; Vicar of West Hendred,
Berkshire.

[196] The Note in the _Remains_, i., 405, calls attention to
the circumstance that R.H.F. was speaking of the Church
_system_ only; _i.e._, the Establishment.

[197] Both Newman and Froude often employ this word in a
sense now quite obsolete. ‘The notion of diversion,
entertainment, is comparatively of recent introduction into
the word. To amuse was to cause to muse, to occupy or
engage, and in this sense indeed to divert, the thoughts and
attention.’ Trench, _Select Glossary_, 1890, p. 7.

A perfect example of the bygone function of the word occurs
in Daniel’s _Musophilus_, where he condoles with ‘Sacred
Religion, mother of form and fear,’ in the days when she must

‘Sit poorly, without light, disrobed; no care
Of outward grace to amuse the poor devout.’

[198] Joram or jorum is a drinking-bowl.

[199] _I.e._, the work, then in progress, on _The Life and
Times of Thomas à Becket_.

[200] _The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays
and Holy-days Throughout the Year._ First American Edition.
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, MDCCCXXXIV.

[201] Frederick Oakeley, 1802-1880: Tutor and Lecturer of
Balioll College, Select Preacher to the University in 1831,
Minister of Margaret Chapel (on the site of All Saints,
Margaret Street, London W.) 1839-1845, and for the last
thirty years of his life priest and Canon of the Archdiocese
of Westminster.

[202] The American editor, ‘G. D. W.’ [George Washington
Doane].

Among the footnotes is the following: ‘The Editor is
accountable, throughout the volume, for the use of the
Italic letter. He has adopted that method of designating
such lines as possess, in his judgment, peculiar beauty.’
The preface is dated July 1, 1834. More than twenty-five
editions had been published in England at this time.

[203] With Froude always, though not with Newman,
domesticity spelled desertion of the Cause: to be married
was, practically, to ‘rat.’

[204] _The British Magazine_ for September, 1834, had
announced the marriage of H. W. Wilberforce, Esq., M.A.,
Oriel College, to Mary, second daughter of the late Rev. J.
Sargent, Rector of Lavington.

[205] Hurrell may well have known the state of poor
Williams’ heart in regard to Miss Caroline Champernowne of
Dartington Hall: the marriage, however, did not come off
until 1842. Mr. Keble is not mentioned in his worshipping
disciple’s incriminating list, but he had married Miss
Charlotte Clark at Bisley on the tenth of the preceding
October. He was then in his forty-fourth year. The
engagement was of several years’ standing.

[206] Mr. Christie married in 1847.

[207] John Frederick Christie, M.A., Fellow of Oriel,
received Deacon’s Orders in the Cathedral at Oxford, on May
25, 1834, and Priest’s Orders in the same place, on December
20, 1835.

[208] [Such as the necessity of holding by the union of
Church and State; of contenting himself with the English
liturgical services, etc. Note, _Remains_, i., 386.] The
Editors mistook Hurrell’s word ‘one’ in the text, printing
it as ‘me.’

[209] To _smug_ is to confiscate without ceremony.

The _Exeter Flying Post_, during the last week of the
preceding May, had announced the arrival of ‘the Bishop of
Barbados and his family, on a visit to Mrs. Coleridge’s
father, the venerable Dean of Winchester.’ The ‘thorough Z’
was in delicate health, and it forced him, ultimately, to
resign his charge. His only son, a young child in Froude’s
time at Barbados, Mr. Rennell Coleridge, has just died at
Salston, Ottery St. Mary (May, 1904).

[210] Isaac Williams was long believed to be hopelessly ill,
but recovered.

[211] The Rev. John Keble, Sr., Vicar of Coln St. Aldwyn,
father and sole educator of John and of Thomas Keble, up to
the time of their entering the University. He had inherited
what he so splendidly transmitted: the Carolian and
Nonjuring tradition.

[212] He was by no means alone in indulging this pious
sentiment. On all sides, in 1835, ‘from Newman to Macaulay,
from Cobbett to Arnold, the Reformers were receiving
scathing criticism.’ The Life-Work of Cardinal Wiseman, in
_Problems and Persons_, by Wilfrid Ward. Longmans, 1903.

[213] Of Nov. 18, 1834. This is a homespun boyish
acknowledgement of Newman’s beautiful flight of words,
straight to the heart of his friend.

[214] Newman’s note some thirty years later, _Letters and
Correspondence_, ii., 7. ‘_N.B._――Froude would not believe
that I was in earnest, as I was, in shrinking from the views
which he boldly followed out. I _was_ against
Transubstantiation.’

[215] In the standard modern edition, _Pensées Fragments et
Lettres de Blaise Pascal_ … par M. Prosper Faugère, Paris,
Leroux, 1897, the passage occurs in Lettre V. (à
Mademoiselle de Roannez), fin d’Octobre, 1656, pp. 52-53.

[216] Probably in a letter. Mr. Christie was at this time
devoting himself to Ridley, whom he looked upon, Mr. Mozley
tells us, as a Saint and an Authority; his papers appeared
later in _The British Critic_.

[217] Sir William Hamilton’s celebrated (anonymous) article
on ‘Admission of Dissenters to the Universities,’ _Edinburgh
Review_, vol. lx., pp. 202 _et seq._, for October, 1834,
includes some telling paragraphs on the Practical Theology
(in reference to the countenancing of polygamy) and the
Biblical Criticism (boldly destructive) of Luther, Bucer,
and Melancthon.

[218] First published as Tract 18: _Thoughts on the Benefits
of the System of Fasting enjoined by our Church._ It is
dated Oxford, The Feast of S. Thomas [1834], and signed E.
B. P., being the first of the _Tracts_ to bear a signature,
by way of disassociating its author from the real
Tractarians.

[219] The ‘Dartington one’ is, as we have seen, ‘Scripture a
Record of Human Sorrow’; the ‘Naples one’ is possibly
‘Religious Emotion,’ Nos. xiv. and xxv. in _Parochial
Sermons_, by John Henry Newman, M.A., Vicar of S. Mary the
Virgin’s, Oxford, and Fellow of Oriel College. London:
Rivington, 1834.

[220] Did Froude mean to write ‘Gallican’? Saint Francis de
Sales as a Jansenist fills a new rôle.

[221] ‘The Rise and Fall of Gregory,’ chapter ix., in _The
Church of the Fathers_. Reprinted from _The British
Magazine_, by Rivington, 1840, p. 146.

[222] Robert Isaac Wilberforce, as Vicar of East Farleigh,
near Maidstone, Kent, was out of Oxford life practically
from 1831 to 1849.

[223] Choused means swindled, duped.

[224] _Sic._

[225] Unidentified.

[226] He has forgotten, for the moment, his own illuminating
word spoken two years before: ‘Surely the promise “I am with
you always” means something?’ …

[227] The famous emendation of the thirteenth stanza in the
Gunpowder Treason hymn, which now reads in all editions of
_The Christian Year_,――

‘There present in the heart
As in the hands,’

was made after Keble’s death, by his executors, and in
accordance with his own request. The request was based upon
that of ‘my dear friend Hurrell Froude,’ over thirty years
before. Keble had long held out against the alteration, and
for what he thought good cause, even against Pusey,
maintaining that ‘Not in the hands’ should be understood as
‘Not [only] in the hands.’ He had precedents and analogies
to lean upon. But when Bishop Jeune on February 9, 1866,
quoted the original lines in Convocation as against the Real
Objective Presence, the poet, then near his end, eagerly
effected the change. The ordinary reader may wonder whether
a more astounding variant be known to doctrinal statement.

[228] Both quotations are from one of the loveliest and
tenderest numbers of _The Christian Year_: that entitled
‘Holy Baptism,’ stanzas v. and iii.

[229] ‘Someone’ was of course quoting from the Vulgate, the
Song of Solomon, iv., 11.

[230] The Rev. John Keble, Sr., died on Jan. 24, 1835, aged
89.

[231] Thus in the Newman _Correspondence_, ii., 94. In the
_Remains_ the reading is ‘little to boast of.’

[232] Froude would not have heard of the famous contest for
the Speakership on Feb. 19, 1835, as he left the West Indies
in March, or early April. James Abercromby, Esq., of
Edinburgh, obtained on that day a majority of ten over Sir
Charles Manners Sutton, who thereupon retired in chagrin
from public life, and was created Viscount Canterbury.

[233] _Letters of Frederic Lord Blachford_, edited by George
Eden Marindin. London: Murray, 1896, p. 24.

[234] _Reminiscences_, ii., 14.

[235] ‘The Oxford Counter-Reformation,’ in _Short Studies on
Great Subjects_, 4th Series: 1883.

[236] Tract 63, afterwards published, with additions, in the
_Remains_, part i., ii., 383-423.

[237] (With dogma: not with disease!)

[238] _The Ritualists, or Non-Natural Catholics._ London:
Shaw & Co., 2nd edition, 1867, p. 73.

[239] In the Church of England, he means. Catholic altars
were, and are, always of stone, the custom of stone altars
having been ruled as obligatory at the Council of Epaon,
A.D. 517. Dr. Pusey’s dismay will be remembered at the
adverse decision given on 31st January, 1845, against stone
altar-slabs, as ‘revived’ in S. Sepulchre’s Church at
Cambridge. (Liddon’s _Pusey_, ii., 483.)

[240] _La Renaissance Catholique en Angleterre_, par Paul
Thureau-Dangin de l’Académie française. 1re Partie. Paris:
Plon, 1899, p. 160.

[241] ‘_Que se passa-t-il entre eux? Wiseman ne l’a jamais
révélé._’ _Idem_, p. 104. M. Thureau-Dangin’s treatment of
Froude throughout is exquisite and just, though he contrives
to miss a point or two.

[242] Newman warns us in the Preface to _Loss and Gain_
against actual identifications of his scenes and characters;
and the warning is just, because there is no warrant for the
identifications. But reading between the lines is
particularly profitable with every page of Newman’s,
dictated by an almost unexampled deliberation and
sensitiveness. Reding (for one instance out of many),
quitting his beautiful and beloved Oxford, goes early in the
morning to kiss the willows along the Water-walks good-bye.
It is almost impossible that the man who thinks such a thing
should not also be the man who has done it.

[243] ‘Things,’ one is left to infer, which depended more or
less on the proximity of the Bodleian, and implied something
in the way of historical fiction.

[244] In vol. vii., 1835. The article for June, pp. 662-668,
is Letter No. xii. in _The Church of the Fathers_, and
consists of a little essay on S. Augustine, with excerpts
from his treatises and private correspondence on the subject
of the religious life.

[245] The Statutes excluding married Fellows being still in
force.

[246] Years after this was written, late in the seventies,
he must have passed near it, going to visit his
brother-in-law, the Rev. Thomas Mozley, at Plymtree.

[247] _I.e._, haranguing against ‘Romanism.’

[248] James Shergold Boone, 1799-1859, an Oxonian, then
editor of _The British Critic_.

[249] Copleston.

[250] The Rev. Charles Portates Golightly, 1807-1885, M.A.,
Oriel: King of the ‘Peculiars.’

[251] The Rev. Benjamin Harrison, 1808-1887, M.A.,
Christchurch, afterwards Archdeacon of Maidstone and Canon
of Canterbury.

[252] Probably Thomas Mozley, newly appointed Junior
Treasurer of Oriel.

[253] The Rev. Robert Francis Wilson, M.A., Oriel, was
appointed Mr. Keble’s Curate in 1835, and became his
lifelong friend.

[254] In the review of Blanco White’s _Observations on
Heresy and Orthodoxy_.

[255] The Rev. John Richard Bogue, a Cambridge graduate,
then, or later, Curate of Cornworthy, towards Dartmouth.

[256] _Life of Edward Bouverie Pusey_, by Henry Parry
Liddon, D.D., etc. London: Longmans, 1893, i., 359.

[257] John Mozley and Jemima Newman were married on April
28, 1836. Thomas Mozley’s first wife was Harriet Newman,
married to him in September of the same year. Not only the
Mozleys of the Tractarian group, but two of the Wilberforces
(Samuel and Henry), and the two Kebles, married sisters.

[258] A ‘prose,’ in this pleasant sense, seems always, with
Oxford men of that date, to mean a disquisition in the
nature of a monologue.

[259] Hurrell Froude’s first instalments of the articles
embracing translations of S. Thomas à Becket’s original
letters (from the Vatican Archives and other original
sources) appeared in _The British Magazine_ for November,
1832, ii., 233-242, and had run on pretty regularly ever
since.

[260] In the theological sense.

[261] William Palmer (Vigornensis, as he was locally called
to distinguish him from his namesake at Magdalen College),
and Newman, in lesser measure, were responsible for this
Tract, numbered 15.

[262] During this month Blanco White had avowed himself a
Unitarian, and quitted Archbishop Whately’s house in Dublin.

[263] By accident, the same adjectives had instinctively
occurred in a postscript of Harriett Newman’s, written a
month or two before. ‘Who can refrain from tears at the
thought of that bright and beautiful Froude?’ she writes.
‘He is not expected to last long.’

[264] Coleridge’s _Memoir of John Keble_, p. 235.

[265] ‘Separation,’ _Lyra Apostolica_, Beeching’s edition,
p. 17. See p. 331 of this book.

[266] Cholderton (Thomas Mozley’s Rectory), Oct. 3,
1839.――‘Keble’s Preface to the _Remains_ [Part II.], which
awaited me here, is very good, as far as I can judge; but
somehow I want the faculty of judging anything of
Keble’s.’――_John Henry Newman, Letters and Correspondence to
1845._ Longmans, 1890, ii., 213, 257.

[267] Lost.

[268] Newman. The anonymous review appeared in _The
Christian Observer_ for July, 1837, pp. 460-479. The volume
bears no number.

[269] Probably Henry Halford Vaughan of Christ Church,
1811-1885; the distinguished jurist; elected Fellow of Oriel
in 1835; afterwards Regius Professor of Modern History.

[270] Renn Dickson Hampden, D.D., 1793-1868, received in
October, 1836, his famous (Dean Burgon’s adjective was
‘scandalous’) appointment by Lord Melbourne to the Regius
Professorship of Divinity in the University of Oxford,
against the vehement and prolonged opposition of both Low
Church and High Church, to whom ‘Hampdenism’ meant nothing
less than the negation of Christian doctrine and the
Catholic spirit. Hampden, if not ‘Hampdenism,’ was to be
greatly crippled by the Oxford Convocation of the following
May.

[271] The Rev. R. C. Fillingham’s wit, wasted on a winter
Sunday morning in the Pembroke Street Chapel, Oxford, may be
worth hoarding up. ‘The Martyrs died to protest against the
ridiculous doctrine of the Real Presence, and the man who
preached that doctrine from the pulpit was a traitor, and
deserved to be drummed out of the Church. (Applause)…. The
new religion of the Church of England was founded in 1833 …
in order to save the endowments, and was really a pecuniary
dodge. The Martyrs’ Memorial protested against it, and said
this new thing was not the religion of the true Church of
England. The Memorial protested against dishonesty; it stood
as a protest against shams, etc., etc.’――_The Oxford Times,
Jan. 16, 1904._

[272] The Rev. Edward Churton, 1800-1874, Rector of Crayke,
the Spanish scholar, biographer of Joshua Watson.

[273] _Lives of Twelve Good Men_, by John William Burgon,
B.D., late Dean of Chichester. London: Murray, 1891, p. 129.

[274] Afterwards seventh Earl of Carlisle.

[275] _Correspondence_, ii., 255.

[276] _Letters of Frederic Lord Blachford_, edited by George
Eden Marindin. Murray, 1896, p. 50.

[277] _Life of William Ewart Gladstone_, by John Morley.
Macmillan, 1903, i., 306.

[278] _Idem_, p. 161.

[279] _Remains_, vol. ii., 229, 250, and elsewhere.

[280] Mr. Ruskin.

[281] Rose to Pusey, in Burgon’s _Lives of Twelve Good Men_,
p. 125.

[282] ‘A More Excellent Way,’ in _The Faith of the
Millions_. First Series. By George Tyrrell, S. J. Longmans,
1901, p. 5.

[283] Sir James Stephen, ‘The Evangelical Succession,’ in
_Essays in Ecclesiastical Biography_. London: Longmans,
1860, 4th edition, i., 462.

[284] Quoted in _The Monthly Repository_ for 1835,
discovered and reproduced in Mr. Bertram Dobell’s
_Sidelights on Charles Lamb_, 1903, p. 325.

[285] _Life and Letters of Ambrose Phillipps de Lisle_, i.,
199. Compare the Rev. Spencer Jones’ remarkable article,
‘Who Makes the Division?’ in _The Lamp_ for April or May,
1904. ‘The _terminus ad quem_ of the Oxford Movement, by
logical and divine necessity, seems to us to be the return
of the Anglican Church to the supreme authority of the Holy
See. To it we must come, if we desire to possess a sanctuary
once more.’

[286] Canon Smith, Rector of S. Peter’s Catholic Church at
Marlow, once the Anglican Rector of Leadenham, died, aged
89, on October 24, 1903, while the first sheets of this book
were passing through the press.

[287] It is the saying of a contemporary wit: ‘Did you ever
see a clever Anglican who did not worry over his Church? and
did you ever see a clever Roman who did?’

[288] See p. 148.

[289] _Reminiscences_, i., 441.

[290] _Life and Letters of Walter Farquhar Hook, D.D.,
F.R.S._, by his Son-in-Law, W. R. W. Stephens. Bentley,
1878, ii., 103.

[291] _L’Anglo-Catholicisme_, par le Père Ragey. Paris:
Lecoffre [1897], pp. 4, 7.

[292] Mr. Simcox in _The Academy_, May 22, 1891, xxxix.,
481.

[293] The physical resemblance between R. H. F.’s
child-portrait and _il buon Pippo_, becomes none the less
noteworthy when one turns towards what Newman wrote from
Rome to his sister about S. Philip Neri, on January 26,
1847. ‘This great Saint reminds me in so many ways of Keble,
that I can fancy what Keble would have been … in another
place and age; he was formed on the same type of extreme
hatred of humbug, playfulness, nay, oddity, tender love of
others, and severity.’ _John Henry Newman, Letters and
Correspondence to 1845_, ii., 424.

HURRELL FROUDE

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SOME REPRINTED COMMENTS
ON HIM AND ON HIS RELATION
TO THE OXFORD MOVEMENT

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