The life and letters of Benjamin Jowett, M. A., master of Balliol college, Oxford.

Letters, 1840-I846

III

this time dwindled to a calm, and left you in the quiet of
a Long Vacation. From all accounts Hampden's conduct seems
to have been very bad. I hope that Newman and his friends
will become more liberal-or perhaps 'charitable' is the right
word-not only towards individuals, but in their own views
of parties; if so, I think the work they will have done will
be almost one of unmixed good.
To B. C. BRODIE.
BALLIOL, November 24, I844... Various new things have happened here since I wrote
last. In the first place, the report about Newman's leaving
the English Church is not immediately true, though it was
generally believed, and I incline to think that it is founded on
fact. A committee of Heads of Houses are sitting on the fat
fellow's book, who seems likely to have hard measure dealt to
him if the inextricable confusion of the statutes does not save
him. The Heads of Houses are not over scrupulous either
legally or morally in their method of proceedings. Whately
has been backing them, which, considering his liberal views, is,
I think, a mistake. It has been much discussed among us
whether Stanley shall write a pamphlet on the occasion.
Maurice2 of Guy's Hospital was anxious that we should draw up
a genuine Liberal protest against persecution of the Newmanites,
in which he says he himself, Archdeacon Hare, &c., will join.
The said protest we wish to represent as coming from
F. Maurice himself. Honestly confessing that I am rather
proud of having helped to draw up a document abounding in
Liberal sentiments, I will send it you if it ever gets into print,
which is rather uncertain, as matters are only in embryo yet.
I must tell you another thing which is to me a matter of
great interest. Yesterday I went to dine with Coleridge: just
such a dinner-party as you and I were at together six months
ago. Froude was there, as on the former occasion; but I was
greatly amazed to find that he has become regularly Germanized,
and talked unreservedly about Strauss, miracles, &c. Of course
1 W. G. Ward's Ideal of the Christian Church.
2 Frederick Denison Maurice.