THE Central Literary Magazine. It must be borne in mind that this Magazine is neutral in Politics and Religion; its pages are open to a free expression of all shades of opinion without leaning to any. No. 3. JULY, 1879. CARDINAL NEWMAN. VOL. IV. The elevation of John Henry Newman to the rank and office of Cardinal, which has so recently taken place, affords us an opportunity of reviewing the life and career of that remarkable man, and, by estimating the present attitude of the body of his countrymen towards him, and comparing it with that manifested thirty-three years ago, it will be possible for our readers to gauge, to some extent, the effect of the great movement with which he was so closely identified before his secession from the Established Church; and more possible still, to measure the extent to which the "Apologia pro Vita Suá" fulfilled its purpose in removing the mistrust and suspicion which for a long time mingled in men's minds with the veneration, the sympathy, and the admiration with which the great Oratorian was generally regarded. Cardinal Newman was born in London in 1801. He was the son of John Newman, a member of the banking firm of Ramsbottom, Newman and Co., and he received his education at Ealing School and Trinity College, Oxford, where he took his B.A. in 1820, securing classical honours and afterwards a fellowship at Oriel. In the Apologia, Newman tells us that he was brought up from a child to take great delight in reading |