The life of the Right Reverend Ernest Roland Wilberforce, first bishop of Newcastle-on-Tyne and afterward bishop of Chichester.

ix, [1], 360 p.; 4 pl.; 22.5 cm. Life of Samuel Wilberforce's third son, 1840-1907. Deft handling of ritual cases, p. 246-301 `Ernest Wilberforce could not be blind to the existence of practices and doctrines which were illegal, but he was resolved to follow his own methods in dealing with the offences and with the transgressors. Almost every ritual prosecution has issued finally in the vindication of some large liberty.' (246) -- `This is the sober teaching of the Church: private confession is a special medicine to be used for grave ailments.' (250) -- `Bishop Gaul, then Bishop of Mashonaland, tells me that the natives were much interested in knowing that it was Wilberforce's grandfather who had gained for their grandfathers and themselves the boon of freedom from slavery,and he adds that the visit to the Penhalonga Mission above referred to was the source of the greatest comfort and joy to the Brethren of the Community. Onhis return to England he used to point to the educational and industrial work carried on there, and its steady growth and self-extension. as a complete answer to certain current objections against African Missions. A favourite anecdote.was.that the Bishop of Mashonaland, coming suddenly upon a man-eating lion, proceeded to read the Thirty-Nine Articles to him. Unhappily this traveller's tale got into print, and he received letters from all parts of England, inquiring if he meant to throw discredit and contempt on the Church and its formularies. With smiling complaint that some people were born without the slightest sense of humour and that it was no use talking to them, he was compelled to explain to an Eastbourne audience that he had been betrayed into a joke.' (326 f.) Fair ex-circ. lib. slate cloth, spine heavily abraded. Foxing.