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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1901 Excerpt:... 1890 SIR F. ROGERS 223 "Exactly so," replied Kimberley; "that is precisely the criticism to which he was open." Sir F. Rogers was extremely intimate with Newman, and looked through the Apologia for him. Newman had a great regard for Dr. Bagot, the Bishop of Oxford, and in the first draft of the Apologia said that none of our other Bishops could hold a candle to him. Sir F. Rogers, as Coleridge told us, took exception to this. His friend replied: "I do not at all agree with you about the Bishop, but I have put out the candle." 15. Went up to the Grillion breakfast, after which came the election, which was, I thought, most satisfactory, one representative of each of the three great divisions of political opinion being successful--Chamberlain, Morley, and the Duke of Abercorn. Later I went to the Athenaeum, and had a long talk with George Boyle, who is up for Convocation. The name of Bishop Bagot coming up, "Do you know," said my companion, "that all his charges and everything of any importance which he gave to the world, even the letter to Newman about the Tracts for the Times, were composed by Francis Paget, the once well-known writer of Anglican religious stories? People who knew the Bishop on his sportsman and country-gentleman side used to ask with great surprise where Dick Bagot had picked up his literary ability." Boyle had just been staying with his friend, Dr. Claughton, the ex-Bishop of Rochester, and gave an interesting account of the old man, now eighty-two, reading aloud Faber's very striking hymn:--"I wish to have no wishes left, But to leave all to Thee; And yet I wish that Thou should'st will That which I wish should be." 17. We have had since the 15th a large party at York House, who have now all left us, among others Sir Donald Wallace, just...