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 gratitude to Kingsley for having provoked the more artistic presentation of the facts. It would be quite safe to prophesy, if one can prophesy about past events, that Newman's name would have far different associations with it if these volumes, or volumes similar to them, had taken the place of the Apologia. While nearly every line of that masterpiece is of entrancing interest, there is scarcely a single page in these two bulky volumes which anybody would care to read again for its own sake. Part of this unreadableness is due to the want of explanatory and connecting matter. There is not even a list of the celebrated Tracts. The second volume in particular, which is entirely devoted to the 'Movement,' is in the main a collection of business letters, the business being of a highly ideal character no doubt, but still its details are in large measure of the character of machinery. Whether intentionally or no, almost everything of human interest has been eliminated from these pages, which are filled throughout with controversial and theological details, with scarcely any reference to the feelings and aspirations of the workers in the 'Movement.'

These volumes, then, must be regarded as a supplement to the Apologia, and their direct interest is the additional light they throw on its pages. The main increase of knowledge