=Short Studies on Great Subjects.=
By JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE, M.A. Fourth Series. 1 vol., 12mo,
$1.50.
CONTENTS: Life and Times of Thomas Becket—The Oxford
Counter-Reformation—Origen and Celsus—A Cagliostro of the
Second Century—Cheneys and the House of Russell—A Siding at
a Railway Station.
The chief interest of this volume centers in Mr. Froude’s
brilliant and vivid narrative of the Oxford religious
movement, of which Cardinal Newman was the leader.
The London _Athenæum_ says:
“In these personal recollections of a movement in which his
brother was one of the leaders, and in which he himself for
a while took part, we have Mr. Froude at his best.... After
all that has been said of late on the subject of the Oxford
Catholic revival, there is nothing that can for a moment
compare with these letters.... Some of Mr. Froude’s most
perfect illustrations are to be found in this volume, and
who has given us such exquisite images as he?”