[Footnote 54:  Literature and Dogma.]

[Footnote 55:  Studies Subsidiary to the Works of Bishop Butler, pt. i. ch. iii.]

[Footnote 56:  Rome and Romanizing.  By Arthur Galton.]

[Footnote 57:  “Spade! with which Wilkinson hath tilled his lands,” etc.]

[Footnote 58:  See p. 61.]

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Matthew Arnold

By G.W.E.  RUSSELL

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“It was Arnold’s express wish that he should not be made the subject of a Biography.  This rendered it impossible to produce the sort of book by which an eminent man is usually commemorated—­at once a history of his life, an estimate of his work, and an analysis of his character and opinions.  But, though a biography was forbidden, Arnold’s family felt sure he would not have objected to the publication of a selection from his correspondence; and it became my happy task to collect, and in some sense to edit, the two volumes of his letters which were published in 1895.  The letters, with all their editorial shortcomings (of which I willingly take my full share), constitute the nearest approach to a narrative of Arnold’s life which can, consistently with his wishes, be given to the world; and the ground so covered will not be retraversed here.  All that literary criticism can do for the honor of his prose and verse has been done already, conscientiously by Mr. Saintsbury, affectionately and sympathetically by Mr. Paul, and with varying competence and skill by a host of minor critics.  But in preparing this book I have been careful not to re-read what more accomplished pens than mine have written, for I wished my judgment to be unbiased by previous verdicts.

“I do not aim at a criticism of the verbal medium through which a great master uttered his heart and mind, but rather at a survey of the effect which he produced on the thought and action of his age.”

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Cardinal Newman

By WILLIAM BARRY, D.D.

Author of “The New Antigone,” etc.

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CONTENTS

   I. Early Years. 
  II.  The Tractarians. 
 III.  First Catholic Period. 
  IV.  Apologia pro Vita Sua. 
   V. The Logic of Belief. 
  VI.  Dream of Gerontius. 
 VII.  The Man of Letters. 
VIII.  Newman’s Place in History.