Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Walsh's Magazine, Vol. 2: May, 1896
The literary sensation of the day in England is not, as might be supposed, the latest production of one of the popular novelists, nor is it a problem play, or a new social theory, or yet the morbid self-communings of some distraught female to whom notoriety is as the breath of life. It is not any of these things, but the biography of a grave and reverend Prince of the Church, who, though living so much in the public eye, always regarded with singular aversion everything that savored of notoriety and sensationalism. How comes it then that the history of a life which from first to last was given up to the elucidation of the gravest problems that afilict humanity should prove to be what is so foreign to the nature of the subject - the sensation of the hour? The cause is found in the manner in which the biographer has discharged the trust committed to him. This Cardinal Vaughan has stigmatized as almost a crime, and the justice of the verdict it is impossible to gainsay after a careful perusal of the fifteen hundred pages which constitute the work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
