1. A Brief Examination of the Proofs, by which the Rev. Mr. Boardman attempts to sustain his charge that "a large and learned body of the clergy of the church (of England) have returned to some of the worst errors of Popery"; with a word or two as to his attempt, without proof, to cast the suspicion of Popery on the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America: By the Right Rev. George W. Doane, D.D, L.L.D., Bishop of New Jersey. Burlington. 1841. 2. A farther Postscript to Bishop Doane's Brief Examination of Rev. Mr. Boardman's Proofs: Touching Bishop Kenrick's Letter on Christian Union, pp. 230. [pp. 450-462]

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fectly compatible with elegance and beauty of the highest
kind, has been proved by the example of some noted English writers, and by none more clearly than by several of the
Oxford Theol~gians. To our taste Newman, as a writer,
stands pre-emineiIt, as being more musical and elegant than
Pusey, at-id at the same time less mawkish and more masculine than Keble. But in all three, and especially in Newman, what attracts us is the restoration of the old English
freedoni as to the length of sentences, and variety of structure, but without those harsh inversions, and those sesquipedalian vocables, by which many of the best early writers
are disfigured. In a word, the graiid improvement is the
happy combination of a free and flowing with a chaste and
simple style; whereas of old, the flowing writer was almost
in every case an incorrect one, and the siniple writer was an
awkward and constrained one. Now if we were required
to select a kind of writing just as far removed as possible
from that which we have been describing as the style of the
best modern English writers, we should certainly select that
of the "Bishop of New Jersey." It is not the want of talent which makes him thus to differ, not even of that peculiar
talent which enables men to shine in composition. It is the
want of proper culture, and, as a cause or an effect of this,
the want of taste. His parts may be those of a Bishop; but
his taste is the taste of a Sophomore. It does indeed appear
wonderfiil how any man of his years and opportunities~can
be a passionate admirer and assiduous imitator of the best
English writers and yet so unlike them; how he can even
read them and be turgid, pompous and bombastical himself.
That he is perfectly unconscious of his failure in attempting
to adopt the Oxford style, is clear from the frequency with
which he brings the two styles into mortifying juxtaposition.
We would gladly quote if we had room for it a striking instance of this indiscreet arrangement, which the reader may
find on pages 160, 161 of the Brief Examination, where in
the very middle of a fustian paragraph the author suddenly
exclaims, "I quote the burning words of Mr. Newman," and
then gives an extract so unlike himself that it was perfectly
superfluous to tell us he was quoting somebody. He calls
them "burning words," and so they may be in the sense
which he intended, but to us they seemed like fresh air and
cold water on escaping from the hot blast of a smithy, or
like the singing of birds compared with the ringing anvil
or the puffing bellow& The contrast in the case referred