Produced by Anne Soulard, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team MEMOIR AND LETTERS OF FRANCIS W. NEWMAN [Illustration: FROM A DAGUERREOTYPE OF 1851. PHOTO BY JOHN DAVIES, WESTON-SUPER-MARE Frontispiece] MEMOIR AND LETTERS OF FRANCIS W. NEWMAN BY I. GIBERNE SIEVEKING _outos ge axios estin epainesthai ostis an tois hetairois os teleion ti on protithae to eu neoterizein taen ton pollon katastasin_ THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO MY MOTHER CONTENTS TO THE READER WHO UNDERSTANDS. I. FRANCIS NEWMAN'S ANCESTORS. II. THE TWO BROTHERS--SCHOOL AND COLLEGE DAYS. III. FRANCIS NEWMAN'S MISSIONARY JOURNEY TO THE EAST. IV. HIS MARRIAGE: HIS MOTHER'S DEATH: HIS CLASSICAL TUTORSHIP AT BRISTOL IN 1834. V. FRIENDSHIP WITH DR. MARTINEAU. VI. FRANCIS NEWMAN AS A TEACHER. VII. LETTERS TO ONE OF HIS GREATEST FRIENDS, DR. NICHOLSON. VIII. LETTERS TO DR. NICHOLSON FROM NEWMAN DURING THE FOLLOWING YEARS: 1850 TO 1859. IX. LETTERS TO DR. NICHOLSON: CONTINUED. X. LETTERS WRITTEN TO MISS ANNA SWANWICK BETWEEN 1871 AND 1887. XI. THE STORY OF TWO PATRIOTS. XII. FOUR BARBARISMS OF CIVILIZATION. XIII. SOME LEGISLATIVE REFORMS SUGGESTED BY LECTURE AND ARTICLE XIV. DECENTRALIZATION AND LAND REFORM XV. VEGETARIANISM XVI. NATIVE REPRESENTATION IN INDIAN GOVERNMENT XVII. VOTES FOR WOMEN XVIII. FRANCIS NEWMAN AND HIS RELIGION XIX. LAST YEARS, CHARACTERISTICS, AND SOME LETTERS RELATING TO THE "EARLY LIFE OF THE CARDINAL" XX. TOULMIN SMITH: AUTHOR, ANTIQUARIAN STUDENT, AND POLITICAL REFORMER XXI. LANDOWNERS AND WAGE RECEIVERS XXII. THE RIGHT AND DUTY OF EVERY STATE TO ENFORCE SOBRIETY ON ITS CITIZENS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PHOTO OF FRANCIS NEWMAN From a Daguerreotype of 1851. Photo by Mr. John Davies, Weston-super-Mare. JOHN NEWMAN Father of Cardinal Newman and Francis Newman. From an old portrait. By kind permission of Mr. J. R. Mozley. SEALE'S COFFEE HOUSE, OXFORD Now demolished. Done from an old drawing in the year when Francis Newman and John Henry Newman stayed there with Blanco White. WORCESTER COLLEGE, OXFORD Specially photographed for this Memoir. WORTON CHURCH, OXFORDSHIRE From an old print. By kind permission of Rev. W. H. Langhorne. HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, WEST END, OVER WORTON By kind permission of Rev. W. H. Langhorne, present Rector of Worton. OVER WORTON RECTORY, OXFORDSHIRE By kind permission of Rev. W. H. Langhorne, present Rector of Worton. PHOTO FROM SKETCH OF THE NEWMAN FAMILY By Maria Rosina Giberne. By kind permission of Mr. J. R. Mozley. MARIA ROSINA GIBERNE From a painting by herself. PHOTO OF LORD CONGLETON Leader of Syrian Missionary Journey. From his _Life_ by Groves. DR. CRONIN One of those who went to Syria with Francis Newman in 1830. From a photo by Messrs. Webster, Clapham Common. By kind permission of Mrs. Cronin.