A meeting was held at Lord Salisbury's house in Arlington
Street on Thursday, to determine on a memorial to Dr. Pusey, at which the very wise decision was taken to purchase Dr. Pusey's great library for the University of Oxford, and to appoint two or more librarians,—all of them, as we understand the resolution, to be clergymen of the Church of England,—who might become the means of spreading Dr. Pusey's theological learning and profound belief in Christianity among the more or less secularised Oxford students of the future. We heartily .approve the general scope of the resolutions, but we believe the suggestion that all the librarians should necessarily be clergy- men an unfortunate one. By all means let them all be theo- logians, and good theologians,—for otherwise, they could not secure to the library its full value. But a first-rate lay theo- logian, if there were one,—and there ought to be many such, —might well happen to be worth all the rest, in the influence be would secure for genuinely theological learning and Christian conviction. All the speeches on Dr. Pusey's personal character were striking, especially Lord Salisbury's and Dr. Liddon's.
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