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 together they cover the whole development of Newman's career.

It will always be impossible, as it will be unnecessary, to write or rewrite Newman's life as an Anglican. The Apologia stands in the way, in which he himself wrote his early life once and for all time. True, it is only the 'History of his Religious Opinions.' But with Newman, more, perhaps, than with any other man, his religious opinions were his life. Certainly Miss Mozley's work does not profess to retell the story of the Apologia. Her volumes are, in fact, a huge appendix to that work, containing the pièces justificatives for it. They are full of materials, but these do not explain themselves, and at every turn have reference to the events spoken of in the Apologia.

In large measure this supplement to Newman's religious autobiography is the work of Newman himself. He has throughout the two volumes edited the letters and added explanatory words and notes, which often read very oddly, interspersed as they are in the midst of the text. Indeed, it seems probable, from the date attached to many of these annotations,—1860,—that something like the present collection was intended to do the work that the Apologia itself did so efficiently. If that be so, the world owes a large debt of