MR. MAURICE'S BIOGRAPHY.
[TO TER EDITOR. OF TEE SFROTATOR."] Srn,—Cannot Sir Edward Strachey, or Mr. Davies, be persuaded to turn his serious attention to the publication of Mr. Maurice's. biography ? It is, surely, a book that is very much wanted just now. Or if a biography cannot be managed, can we not have some kind of memoir given us,—a "Life and Letters" or some- thing of that kind ? Would there not be a large and valuable mass of Mr. Maurice's correspondence which might be collected, and the careful editing of which might throw considerable light, not only upon Mr. Maurice's mind and influence, but also upon what we clergy have got into the habit of calling "the present distress "?
Men who, like Sir E. Strachey, have the privilege of being able. to say that for thirty-five years Mr. Maurice was their dearest and most intimate friend, ought surely to be ready to pay for this privilege, by giving us the benefit, or some share in the benefit, which they derived from so long an intercourse with one of the most profound metaphysicians and theologians of his age.
In the present depressed condition of the philosophical and theological barometer, it is not difficult to conceive that some such a publication as this for which I am asking might help to.
lift the life" of some of us above the level of our Ritualistic, tr even of our theological controversies.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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