Two books appeared in the course of this year, one by Professor Culler dealing with Newman’s life as a humanist, the other, edited by Fr Bouyer, publishing for the first time many of the autographical memoirs that show forth Newman very much as the delicately conscientious Christian. It would appear to be Professor Culler’s view that these two aspects in Newman’s character were never fully harmonized. In fact, one wonders whether, in the professor’s view, they could be harmonized, at least in the forms they took in Newman’s mind. So unharmonized were they in Newman’s early life, we are led to believe, that their conflict resulted in five crushing illnesses during his youth and early manhood. However, ‘as adolescence passed and as Newman moved into a religious position which was not distrustful of intellect, the conflict gradually resolved itself into the precarious balance which is achieved in the Idea of a University.’ But, though Professor Culler here says that the conflict resolved itself, it is obvious that he does not really believe that such a resolution ever took place. The author of the humanistic discourses in the Idea of a University is, according to Professor Culler, a survival of the vainglorious person who dabbled in un-Christian speculations, but who was suppressed in Newman’s youth from his conscious life, when he turned to religion. The author of the religious discourses in the same book is the other Newman, ‘the docile and submissive creature who emerged’ when the early crisis has passed. We are, then, to believe that the Idea of a University reflects two characters in rebellion against each other, one representing the spirit of humanistic and religious liberalism, the other pietistic and anti-liberal evangelicalism.