Among the eminent men and women of England whose names are not to be
regarded as world famous in the sense that applies to those dealt with in
the foregoing chapters, but who nevertheless in their place and time were
recognised by their contemporaries and are still recognised by those now
living as persons of authority and ability, there can be cited a
distinguished array who consistently condemned vivisection as permitted
and as practised in this country as immoral. Among religious leaders may
be enumerated the following:--
Archbishop McEvilly, of Tuam; Archbishop Crozier, Primate of Ireland;
Archbishop Bagshawe; Bishop Westcott, of Durham; Bishop Moule, of Durham;
Bishop Harold Browne, of Winchester; Bishop Lord Arthur Hervey, of Bath
and Wells; Bishop Ryle, of Liverpool; Bishop Walsham How, of Wakefield;
Bishop Ridding, of Southwell; Bishop Moorhouse, of Manchester; Bishop
Mackarness, of Oxford; Bishop Chinnery-Haldane, of Argyll and the Isles;
Bishop Barry, Primate of Australia; Dean Kichten. Archdeacon
Wilberforce; Father Ignatius; General Booth, the founder of the Salvation
Army; Spurgeon; Hugh Price Hughes; Newman Hall; James Martineau; Stopford
Brooke.
Among prominent teachers and scholars and philosophers and writers and
artists and lawyers I find the following:--
Alfred Russel Wallace, Freeman, Froude, Leslie Stephen, Richard Holt
Hutton, Sir Henry Taylor, Sir Lewis Morris, George Macdonald, Blackmore,
Wilkie Collins, "Lewis Carroll," Robert Buchanan, Justin McCarthy, Sir
Arthur Arnold, Mrs. Somerville, Julia Wedgwood, Sir Edward Burne-Jones,
Walter Crane, Sir Henry Irving, Lord Brampton (Mr. Justice Hawkins), and
Lord Chief Baron Kelly.
I have made no research for great names in foreign countries, but some of
the most illustrious stand prominently before the world representing the
three greatest continental races:
Victor Hugo, Wagner, Tolstoy, Voltaire, Schopenhauer, Rousseau.
Here then I have brought together a very glorious company justifying the
title I have affixed to this book.
NOTE
From this great cloud of witnesses I have omitted all those leaders of
thought and morals, "friends of the wise and teachers of the good"
supporters of this great cause who are living. I followed a like reserve
in my "Memories," making in them none but passing allusions to famous
persons still alive. I do not share the modern journalistic habit of
uninvited public intrusion upon living people who may very well be
unwilling at the moment to be dragged into controversy or exposed to
insult; and every one knows that the vivisectors and their friends have
no manners, and flout all the Hague conventions of debate.
Books by the Hon. Stephen Coleridge
VIVISECTION:
A HEARTLESS SCIENCE
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SOME PRESS OPINIONS.
_Times_.--"Mr. Coleridge is a leading champion of the anti-vivisection
cause, and he here presents a reasoned indictment of the practice. He is
a very able advocate, who generally gets the better of his opponent in a
dialectical bout, and this book is written with great skill and force."
_Western Mail_.--"One cannot fail to be interested and impressed by the
forensic power and ability in this book and by the humane spirit which
has led to its compilation. Mr. Coleridge brings all his power of wit,
irony, and sarcasm to the aid of his scientific knowledge."
_Harrogate Times_.--"The book is an epitome of reasons why 'all humane
and thoughtful people' should disapprove of vivisection, and the sinister
effects of the existence of this practice in our midst. The statements
are cogent, and will find a response in the heart of a wide
constituency."
JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD.
SONGS TO DESIDERIA
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_Daily News_.--"These songs and poems are intensely and sincerely felt .
. . they have the fine, careful, literary coldness of some of the lyrics
of Landor or of the more serious work of Peacock. It is the poetry of a
refined and knightly nature . . . and it deserves to be studied and
remembered . . . its mood is austere and its temper noble."
_Globe_.--"Excellent verses, easy, melodious, and charming."
_Tribune_.--"All lovers of poetry will be grateful for Mr. Stephen
Coleridge's volume. Dainty and finished in execution, and instinct with
a genuine human sympathy, these lyrics betray the hand of a craftsman in
verse. . . . Verses of this quality should secure for 'Songs to
Desideria' a sincere welcome."
_Glasgow Herald_.--"The Hon. Stephen Coleridge has already established
his position among the more tuneful writers of true lyric verse, and into
all that he writes the poet puts delicacy and true emotion, the former
never becomes mere phrase, the latter never degenerates into wordy
passion."
_South Wales Daily News_.--"There is sometimes a depth of feeling in his
passages for which one usually looks only in the great masters of English
literature."
JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD.
MEMORIES
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_Observer_.--"Mr. Coleridge has furnished 'The Dictionary of National
Biography' (or the Victorian part of it) with a supplement of wit and
conversation. And one hardly knows at which to marvel most, the number
of celebrities he hauls up in his net, of the number of laughs he gets
out of them. His book is rich in fresh anecdote and the best light
elements of personality."
MR. JAMES DOUGLAS in the _Star_.--"The best book of reminiscences I have
read for a long time. It teems with good stories about famous and
familiar names."
_Morning Post_.--"Genuinely a record of the doings of others, and full of
anecdote and incident. Mr. Coleridge has written a delightful book, and
has told many interesting things of many famous men."
_Daily Chronicle_.--"Now this is the right sort of memories to put into
print; memories that are fresh and bright, piquant, and yet never
ill-natured, crowded with personal lights and anecdotes; in fine, a
volume of which one says: 'I would have liked to meet all those people
and write about them as Mr. Coleridge has done.'"
JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD.
AN EVENING IN MY LIBRARY AMONG THE ENGLISH POETS
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_Guardian_.--"A charmingly desultory set of essays, generous in
appreciation, and not afraid to explore comparatively unbeaten tracks."
_Quarterly Review_.--"Every moment is one of pure literature. He quotes
his favourite poets freely, giving us not a line or two but often a whole
poem. . . . There is many a racy criticism, and the humanitarian peeps
out from not a few of them. It is a volume full of lovely verse, and one
that will not only give unalloyed pleasure, but will cultivate a taste
for the sweetest and purest poetry."
_Daily Mail_.--"Mr. Coleridge has written a very pleasant and readable
ramble among the poets. It is an anthology with a skilled writer leading
one on from gem to gem with delightful comment."
JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD.
Footnotes:
{16} My "Memories," p. 63
{40} The book had "Leicester" but this was crossed out and "Lichfield"
hand-printed in the margin.--DP.