ADVERTISEMENT. IT has been suggested that a few words by way of introduction to this the first popular edition of Cardinal Newman's Apologia may not be unacceptable. The book was written throughout currente calamo as an answer to an attack by Charles Kingsley; its separate parts being sent to the press, sometimes before being completed, in order to fulfil the conditions of publication, i.e., unfailing appearance on Thursday in consecutive weeks. This was a pressure upon the author, the necessity for which, however, was quite in accordance with his own mind in connection with the subject, although it occasioned him now and again continuous application, day and night, to his task, and afforded little opportunity for revision. But, this notwithstanding, the work has been ranked by the world as one of the masterpieces of religious autobiography. These hurrying circumstances of the publication of necessity confined its author to such materials as he had close at hand. Extracts, for instance, from the letter published herewith would probably have been made use of by him, had it been within reach while the work was in progress. It is a letter, hitherto unpublished, written in 1857 by Cardinal Newman to the late Canon Flanagan of Oscott, dealing with Tract 90 and his hard sayings against Rome, and may well be brought forward at this juncture. This is the explanation of its appearance here. It is given entire, for though the letter was written accidentally, it almost contains in embryo the Apologia itself. The only omission in the present edition is that portion of the Appendix to the First Edition which was included in the Second. This is done in order to bring the volume within the compass of a popular edition. With this single exception and the insertion of the above letter, the text of the book is verbally and in arrangement precisely identical with the Cardinal's own edition. W. P. NEVILLE, THE ORATORY, BIRMINGHAM, Feb. 21, 1904. BEING A History of his Religious Opinions BY JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN "Commit thy way to the Lord and trust in Him, and He will do it. NEW EDITION LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON NEW YORK AND BOMBAY 1904 Show and thin Me by Price ( Ectate) کاما - ماد. 26 THE ORATORY, July 28, 1857. MY DEAR MR. FLANAGAN, My copies of your new History came to me last evening, and I doubt not I shall derive much instruction and pleasure from its perusal. However, I cannot help writing at once to thank you for what, on cutting open some of its pages, I find you say of myself. While the narrative preserves the sustained tone proper to history, and is written with due dignity and gravity, it is impossible not to discern in it a feeling of personal kindness towards me and I hope I may take it as a pledge that you do not forget me and all of us here in your good prayers, (as I assure you I wish to remember you) that we may do our own work, which God has given us, in our day and in our place. I had already promised a copy of your volumes to a French Priest, who is going to write some account of religion in England, and they shall go to him at once. As I am writing, I am tempted to add, what I assure you is in no sense the cause of my writing, that there is just one point in your chapter which requires a remark. It is a very minute one, and relates to just one half sentence. I think it was Mr. Oakeley's view, that he might "profess all Roman doctrine" in the Church of England, or at least "hold it"—and consequently that the 39 Articles allowed of it. I never took this view. I knew that they bound me in various ways to oppose the Roman doctrines, and my conscience approved of this opposition-I mean, I thought ill of various tenets and principles of the Roman Church. Accordingly in 1841, after No. 90, in a letter which the Bishop of Oxford required of me, I wrote with great violence against the doctrines |