or two friendly notes. 8.--Worked on Vaticanism
nearly all day and (an exception to my rule) late at night.
14.--Eight hours' work on my proof sheets. 15.--Went through Acton's
corrections and notes on my proofs. 19.--Worked much in evening on
finishing up my tract, Dr. Doellinger's final criticisms having
arrived. He thinks highly of the work, which he observes will cut
deeper than the former one, and be more difficult to deal with. By
midnight I had the revises ready with the corrections.
20.--Inserted one or two references and wrote "Press" on the 2nd
revises. May the power and blessing of God go with the work.

The second tract was more pungent than the first, and it gave pleasure to
an important minister abroad who had now entangled himself by Falk laws
and otherwise in a quarrel with the papacy. "I have had a letter of
thanks," Mr. Gladstone writes to Hawarden (March 6), "from Bismarck. This
pamphlet is stouter, sharper, and cheaper than the last, but is only in
its eleventh thousand, I believe." Among others who replied to
_Vaticanism_ was Dr. Newman; he appended a new postscript of
four-and-twenty pages to his former answer to the first of Mr. Gladstone's
pamphlets. Its tone is courteous and argumentative--far too much so to
please the ultras who had the pope's ear--and without the wild hitting that
Mr. Gladstone found in Manning.

Newman wrote to thank him (Jan. 17, 1875) for a letter that he described
as "forbearing and generous." "It has been a great grief to me," said
Newman, "to have had to write against one whose career I have followed
from first to last with so much (I may say) loyal interest and admiration.
I had known about you from others, and had looked at you with kindly
curiosity, before you came up to Christ Church, and from the time that you
were launched into public life, you have retained a hold on my thoughts
and on my gratitude by the various marks of attention which every now and
then you have shown me, when you had an opportunity, and I could not fancy
my ever standing towards you in any other relation than that which had
lasted so long. What a fate it is, that now when so memorable a career has
reached its formal termination [retirement from leadership], I should be
the man, on the very day on which it closed, to present to you amid the
many expressions of public sympathy which it elicits, a controversial
pamphlet as my offering." But he could not help