Selections from the Prose Writings of John Henry Cardinal Newman / For the Use of Schools

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CARDINAL NEWMAN.

MAYNARD'S ENGLISH CLASSIC SERIES.—SPECIAL NUMBER
FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS
NEW YORK
CHARLES E. MERRILL CO.

Copyright, 1906, by MAYNARD, MERRILL, & CO.

It has come to be universally admitted that Cardinal Newman fulfills his own definition of a great author: One whose aim is to give forth what he has within him; and from his very earnestness it happens that whatever be the splendor of his diction, or the harmony of his periods, he has with him the charm of an incommunicable simplicity.