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HAMPDEN SURNAME (11 S. vi. 489). As certain authors, such as Anthony Wood, write Hamden, and others, with Clarendon, Hambden, I presume the patriot's surname was pronounced in the same manner in the seventeenth as it is in the twentieth century.

A. R. BAYLEY.

WILLIAM DABGAN (US. vi. 490). I have a pamphlet entitled " William Dargan, Originator of the first Dublin Exhibition.

A Memoir By F.'C. Wallis Healy," 8vo,

pp. 16 (Dublin), 1882.

EDITOR * IRISH BOOK LOVER.'

Ken sal Lodge, N.W.

Cardinal Manning, and Other Essays. By John Edward Courtenay Bodley. (Longmans & Co. )

WHEX Pius IX., on the 19th of September, 1850, announced that he intended to re-establish the Roman hierarchy in England, and appointed Wiseman to the dignity of Archbishop of West- minster, the indignation that ran through the land can still be remembered by some of the older generation. But Pius IX. knew what he was about. Wiseman was in appearance a typical John Bull, " a ruddy, strapping ecclesiastic," and by his genial manners and great scholarship became so popular that, when he died fifteen years afterwards, his burial took place amid an extraordinary demonstration of public mourning. The Pope by his appointment of Manning to succeed him showed equal wisdom, for although at the first his autocratic methods were irksome to the clergy, it was seen that he did not spare himself, and the special attention he gave to the education of children, thus securing them as Roman Catholics, has been one of the chief causes of the progress of Roman Catholicism in this country.

A few terse sentences tell the story of Man- ning's early life and of his going over to Rome in 1851, after the Gorham judgment touch- ing the doctrine of the Church of England as to baptism. Great was the rejoicing among Non- conformists when, after twelve months' litigation, Mr. Gorham gained the day. The author in this sketch of Manning makes no attempt to give even an outline of his public life, but confines himself. to Manning as he knew him, and in the brief space of seventy pages he has produced a lifelike portrait.

Mr. Bodley was in his freshman's year at Oxford when he first saw him at the 'jubilee banquet of the Union Society, when none knew much about him beyond the portrait of him in ' Lothair ' as Cardinal Grandison (see 8 S. iii. 444 ; iv. 24). He was afterwards, it will be re- membered, depicted in ' Endymion ' as Nigel Penruddock (8 S. iii. 482). Mr. Bodley's closer friendship with Manning began after their official relations in reference to the Commissions upon which the Cardinal sat had ceased. Manning invited him, whenever he had an evening dis- engaged in London, to come to him for a talk at half -past eight so many a night saw him " at Archbishop's House, Avhere^we talked till nearly

eleven." " A litter of books and papers mader the room where we sat the least dreary in the cavernous house. The only object of piety dis- cernible in the dim lamplight was a fine malachite crucifix on the mantelpiece, which was given to him in Rome soon after his conversion, and had always stood near him for twenty -seven years. . . . Facing it Manning used to sit, in a low arm- chair. With his faded skull-cap cocked over his eyebrow, he looked like an old warrior of the days of his boyhood, when men of war were often as clean shaven as priests."

Mr. Bodley paints so vividly that we seem to see him sitting over the fire with the " lonely old 1 man," talking of Oxford days. One night the Cardinal's talk turned to Newman, " and so long as his allusions were to his personal relations there was no bitterness in his words." We are not. sufficiently acquainted with the particulars of the controversy between Newman and Manning to pronounce an opinion upon it. We know with what anger many Roman Catholics speak of New- man, but we could wish that some of the remarks made by the author (who is, as all know, a Pro- testant) had been spared. The characteristics of the two men were so different that it could never be possible for there to be religious sympathy between them. We agree with George Eliot, who, after reading the ' Apologia ' and its epilogue by way of dedication, expressed her sense of " its broth erliness," and her gladness that such " mutual charity was left upon earth." It may interest our readers to be reminded that in the 'Apologia' Newman refers to the article which appeared in our pages on the 22nd of May, 1858, " in which various evidence was adduced to show that the tongue was not necessary for articulate speech."

It was on a spring day in 1891 that the pleasant, homely meetings were brought to a close. Mr. Bodley found the Cardinal nursing two manuscript books. "At last he opened them, filled with his fine clear handwriting, and let me see them. They were two of his secret diaries, and he said : ' I thought you might like to take these.' " As Mr. Bodley was then leaving for a long series of " voyages d'etudes " in France and Algeria, he felt it was not prudent to risk the loss of these precious records during months of travel, and, to his " never-ending regret," refused to take charge of them, promising to come again for them in the winter. " He gave me his blessing," writes Mr. Bodley, " with more than usual affec- tion, and I never saw him again." Manning will ever be remembered for his sympathy with the poor and needy ; he had no thought of self. The net value of the property he left was 750Z.

We regret that space permits of only brief reference to the two other studies. In the first, ' The Decay of Idealism in France,' Mr. Bodley shows, as we might expect, all his unique know- ledge of France and the French, and one wishes that he could have given more space to the rela- tions of religion with idealism in that country ; but to have done so would have been " beyond the boundaries of our present survey." The following shows how the " great figure of Napo- leon has become a dim remembrance to unlettered people." Some years ago Mr. Bodley followed the track of Napoleon after his escape from Elba. He drove from Digne to the Chateau de Malijai, and saw the room where Napoleon passed the night of March 4th, 1815, in a Louis XV,