Dr. Pusey : a short study.

Reprinted from "Durham University journal," June 1933. 30 p.; 24.5 cm. `Pusey was therefore quite a pioneer, when in the Long Vacation of 1821 he went abroad for the first time, thus escaping the coronation of George IV, which gave him an opportunity of expressing strong Liberal opinions, and disgust with the restored regime in France. On his return he found that his parents were very hostile to his attachment to Miss Maria Barker, of Fairford Park. This domestic fiat caused a breakdown in health, severe headaches, which he was warned might be permanent, and a melancholy which lasted for six years. He began to read too hard, his only relaxation being hunting, and it was chiefly his friend Jelf's influence that prevented a serious collapse. In Easter, 1822, he obtained a first class in the Schools, Keble being his examiner in the viva voce. "I never knew," said Keble, "how Pindar might be put into English, until I heard Pusey construe him in his examination."' (p. 3) -- `If this brief chronicle has done anything, it has depicted a scholar, who became a leader of the Church in spite of himself, a most unworldly simple and honest man, who was nevertheless supposed to be Jesuitical, because no one could understand such entire simplicity, an absolutely fearless man, who often made mistakes, but was never ashamed to confess them, a man of saintly life, who exhibited to others, so that they faithfully reproduced his pattern, the Christian virtues of humility, faith and love: above all a great defender of the Faith once delivered to the Saints, which he foresaw would, in the time to come, need the support of all truly religious men.' (p. 29) VG, stapled, in lt. spotted orig. lavender wrapper. Cover-title.…