E-text prepared by Susan Skinner, Janet Blenkinship, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) HISTORICAL SKETCHES VOL. I. The Turks in Their Relation to Europe Marcus Tullius Cicero Apollonius of Tyana Primitive Christianity by JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN New Impression [Illustration] Longmans, Green, and Co. 39 Paternoster Row, London New York, Bombay, and Calcutta 1908 * * * * * Longmans' Pocket Library. _Fcap. 8vo. Gilt top._ WORKS BY CARDINAL NEWMAN. Apologia Pro Vita Sua. 2s. 6d. net in cloth; 3s. 6d. net in leather. The Church of the Fathers. Reprinted from "Historical Sketches". Vol. 2. 2s. net in cloth; 3s. net in leather. University Teaching. Being the First Part of "The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated". 2s. net in cloth; 3s. net in leather. * * * * * TO THE RIGHT REVEREND DAVID MORIARTY, D.D. BISHOP OF KERRY. MY DEAR LORD If I have not asked your Lordship for your formal leave to dedicate this Volume to you, this has been because one part of it, written by me as an Anglican controversialist, could not be consistently offered for the direct sanction of a Catholic bishop. If, in spite of this, I presume to inscribe your name in its first page, I do so because I have a freedom in this matter which you have not, because I covet much to be associated publicly with you, and because I trust to gain your forgiveness for a somewhat violent proceeding, on the plea that I may perhaps thereby be availing myself of the only opportunity given to me, if not the most suitable occasion, of securing what I so earnestly desire. I desire it, because I desire to acknowledge the debt I owe you for kindnesses and services rendered to me through a course of years. All along, from the time that the Oratory first came to this place, you have taken a warm interest in me and in my doings. You found me out twenty-four years ago on our first start in the narrow streets of Birmingham, before we could well be said to have a home or a church. And you have never been wanting to me since, or spared time or trouble, when I had occasion in any difficulty to seek your guidance or encouragement.