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lectual sympathy with perplexities and troubles of heart 

 and mind, and the indefinable air of distinction which a 

 great writer stamps on every bit of work he midertakes, 

 all appealed to '^Ir. Romanes ; and above and beyond 

 all these, the almost austere loftiness of thought, the 

 moral heights impHed in Dean Church's -rndtings, 

 seized on the mind of one who, beyond aU else, 

 reverenced personal character and personal good- 

 ness. 



He really enjoyed reading Dean Church's sermons, 

 and they exercised much influence on him. For 

 Xewman, on the other hand, he had little liMng, and 

 indeed he never did Newman adequate justice. He 

 had promised a friend just before his death to read 

 more of Newman, and discover for himself the great 

 gifts of that wonderful man, but there was not time. 

 Only one bit of Newman's writing was dear to him, 

 ' Lead, kindly Light.' 



The following letter rose out of a conversation 

 Mr. Eomanes had with Dr. Paget, during one of the 

 Oxford visits : 



The Palace, Ely : June 15, 1886. 



My dear Eomanes, — I have often and anxiously 

 thought over the question which you asked me when 

 you were at Oxford about your boy's education, and 

 the part which you should take in his religious train- 

 ing : and I would venture, with most true and 

 affectionate gratitude for your trust, to write a few 

 Hnes in partial qualification of what I then said. 



I start on the ground of your own wish (for which 

 indeed I am with all my heart thankful) that your boy's 

 character should be fashioned after the Christian type 

 and under the influence of Christ. And I am as anxious 

 as ever that, even if your own estimate of the evidences 



