MEMOIRS. 



I. 



THE REV. E. S. TALBOT, D.D., VICAR OF LEEDS, 



AND SOMETIME WARDEN OF KEBLE COLLEGE. 1 



THE loss of Aubrey Moore claims from the reverent 

 affection of his friends some attempt at a loving 

 estimate of his character and work. In the midst 

 of the grief widely felt by many sorts of men that 

 a life as rich in promise as any in the Church of 

 England, or in the English religious world, should 

 have been so early taken from earth, it moves true 

 thankfulness to remember that the last five years 

 of his life have enabled him to leave a definite con- 

 tribution of clear and marked significance to our 

 deepest spiritual and intellectual life. To cast the 

 eye rapidly over the writings that he has left, few 

 as they are, is to gain a wonderful impression of 

 calm, strong, candid, coherent, clear-sighted work, 

 of much knowledge assimilated and co-ordinated, 

 of blended spiritual and intellectual insight ; but it 



1 Reprinted from the Guardian of Jan. 29, 1890, with revisions. 



