Tho famo of Newman, which had drooped after his entry into tho Church of Rome, was resuscitated, not by\ theologians of any school, lint by some English men of letters who perceived that this preacher and controversialist possessed imaginative gifts_ of the highest order, and was tho creator of a new type of English prose which entitled him to a permanent place in the litonituro of his country beside Hooker and Jeremy Taylor. Many of his literary admirers wcro quite indifferent to tbo truth or falsehood of his teaching. They road him as they read Dante, and for tho same reasons.-—" Spectator."
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 42, 13 November 1907, Page 4
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102Untitled Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 42, 13 November 1907, Page 4
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