Trinity College, Oxford, has elected Dr. Newman to an honorary
Fellowship. It was this College in which, as a young man, he held a scholarship, and which he only left when elected to fi Fellowship in OrieL It is creditable to Trinity College to have so far overcome the odium theologicum, which makes it so difficult in England to do justice to the genius of a Catholic, as to have con- ferred this honour at all upon a father of the oratory of St. Philip Neri, and the greatest of the English converts to Rome. It will, however, do the College far more honour than it can do Dr. Newman, who, whatever his theological errors, is far the greatest master of the English tongue now living, and' perhaps the greatest writer of English prose who has ever lived. His University and parochial sermons, his " Essay on DeVelopment," his two stories, "Loss and Gain" and " Callista," his " Lectures on Anglican Difficulties," and his " Apologia pro Vita Sul " contain more passages abounding in grace, pathos, combined force and delicacy of touch, and vivid irony, than all the Anglican fathers, from Jeremy Taylor to Thirlwall, put together, and probably, if we exclude our great novelists, than any other writer of English prose-
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