42          THE    OXFORD    MOVEMENT

1897,  after  having  survived  to  publish  his  Contri-
butions Chiefly  to  the  Early  History  of  the  Cardinal
Newman.  He  was  a  man  of  remarkable,  though
erratic  ability.  In  his  opinion  the  Cardinal  was
to  blame  for  other  deficiencies  in  character  besides
his  lack  of  sympathy  with  social  reform.  It  must
be  noted,  however,  that  the  Professor  was  consid-
erably over  eighty  years  of  age  when  he  published
his  critical  memoir  of  the  Cardinal,  and  it  is
possible  that,  in  one  or  two  respects,  his  memory
may  have  played  him  false.
A  fine  memorial  church  has  been  erected  at
Edgbaston  in  honour  of  Newman,  and  the  flourish-
ing school  there,1  for  the  sons  of  gentlemen,  estab-
lished mainly  by  his  exertions,  occupies  a  high
place  amongst  Roman  Catholic  educational  estab-
lishments. At  Brompton,  a  statue  of  the  Cardinal
— rejected  by  Oxford — has  been  erected  close  to
the  Oratory.  Newman  lies  buried  at  Rednal,

1  In  his  early  days  at  Oxford,  Newman  little  imagined  that
he  would  ever  leave  the  University  to  establish  a  Roman
Catholic  School !  In  very  beautiful  language  he  even  antici-
pated remaining  at  Oxford  until  death :  *  I  took  leave  of  my
first  College,  Trinity,  which  was  so  dear  to  me,  and  which  held
on  its  foundation  so  many  who  had  been  kind  to  me  both  when
I  was  a  boy  and  all  through  my  Oxford  life.  Trinity  had  never
been  unkind  to  me.  There  used  to  be  much  snapdragon
growing  on  the  walls  opposite  my  freshman's  rooms  there,  and
I  had  for  years  taken  it  as  the  emblem  of  my  own  perpetual
residence  even  unto  death  in  my  University'  (Apologia  pro
Vita  Sua).
