Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: JOHN HENRY NEWMAN AND HIS SISTER (AFTERWARDS MRS THOMAS MOZLEY) From a Chalk Draining of the entire Newman family group by Maria Giherne To face /. 4 Frank Newman 5 To both of his brothers, John Henry was able to be a benefactor, in part a father: a common rttle which accords to many elder brothers a little, remembered place among heroes. Francis William, only four years younger, followed him to school at Ealing, and then to Oxford, where he lived in lodgings, pursuing his studies with as much docility as was in him under John Henry's direction. Already the difference of temperament was marked, though in religion Frank was then an Evangelical, John Henry much the same. But, even then, Frank thought his brother wanting in sympathy with his Evangelical friends, so did not consult him about his own difficulties. But Frank himself! A master of style, he made his words fit his strange fancies about the Catholic religion ; and John Henry, when Frank was to follow him into Orders, was deeply offended with the bro- therwhom he had formerly invoked in such fraternal rhymes as these: Dear Frank, we both are summoned now, As champions of the Lord; Enrolled am I; and shortly thou Must buckle on the sword; A high employ, nor lightly given, To serve as messengers of heaven. For a time they ceased to speak. This season of silence in turn passed away. The difference indeed grew greater, but with a difference—they agreed to differ. They met from time to time in after years, Frank visiting his brother at Maryvale (where spirits were high), at Rednal, and in Birmingham. Writingto Mr Lilly in 1877, Dr Newman, as he then was, says: "The Dublin has a practice of always calling me F. Newman, whereas my brother is commonly distinguished from me by this initial, his name b...