Page:Literary studies by Joseph Jacobs.djvu/158

 HUTTON'S 'NEWMAN'

R. HUTTON opens yet another new series by a biographical essay on Cardinal Newman, which seems likely to be the first of many biographies of the late Cardinal. It is but fair to Mr. Hutton to add at once that it was prepared during Newman's lifetime, and has not been hurriedly written to supply a demand caused by the Cardinal's death. It is far from a biography in the ordinary sense of the word; of the man apart from the theologian we hear but little. Mr. Hutton has essayed to give a short history of Newman's religious opinions while he was in the Anglican Church, derived in the main from the Apologia, but told from a point of view necessarily less personal, and therefore more impartial.

In many ways the essay is successful in giving the reader the main critical points in that remarkable transition from the extreme left to the extreme right of Christian thought.

Mr. Hutton's abstracts are clear, and his

130