Saint John Henry
Richard Altick, 5 August 1982
John Henry Newman: His Life and Work
by Brian Martin.
Chatto, 160 pp., £8.95, May 1982,0 7011 2588 8 Show More
by Brian Martin.
Chatto, 160 pp., £8.95, May 1982,
Protestant versus Catholic in Mid-Victorian England
by Walter Arnstein.
Missouri, 271 pp., £14, June 1982,9780826203540 Show More
by Walter Arnstein.
Missouri, 271 pp., £14, June 1982,
“... masterpiece of rhetorical style and structure, elsewhere it is pretty heavy going. Its weight of excerpts from Newman’s private letters and his printed essays and sermons, while strategically indispensable to his defence against Kingsley’s allegations of mendacity, detracts from, if it does not destroy, the artistry of the surrounding spiritual ... ”