Leaving it
Rosemary Ashton, 16 February 1989
John Henry Newman: A Biography
by Ian Ker.
Oxford, 762 pp., £48, January 1989,0 19 826451 8 Show More
by Ian Ker.
Oxford, 762 pp., £48, January 1989,
James Fitzjames Stephen: Portrait of a Victorian Rationalist
by K.J.M. Smith.
Cambridge, 338 pp., £30, November 1988,0 521 34029 2 Show More
by K.J.M. Smith.
Cambridge, 338 pp., £30, November 1988,
“... indeed to contain two such different representatives as John Henry Newman and James Fitzjames Stephen. They shared a distrust of reform and democracy, a love of England, and a penchant for getting into controversy in print. Otherwise, they strike one as chalk and cheese, or ‘dog and fish’, as Newman put it, à propos of their one encounter, in ... ”