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Excerpt from Studies of Men It is his literary work which has given him a greater hold on the Protestant millions than all his theological and ecclesiastical efforts. That he was a master of English prose is conceded by those who dispute some of his other titles to renown. He ranks, as a writer, among the first half-dozen writers of the century. Those who would put him at the head Of this select group have yet to make good their case. He leaves behind him no great work, no single book that can be called great, unless the Apologia be an exception. His forty volumes are forty volumes of Miscellanies. Near ly every one of them was written for some purpose of the moment. The Apologia itself was an answer to Kingsley's unhappy question, What, then, does Dr. Newman mean 2 It is the one by which to the gen eral public be is best known, and probably the only one which will, for its own sake and on its own merits, have any lasting fame or many generations of readers. It has something of the fascination which Newman him self had. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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