ecided minority
of my recommendations, have gone as a rule to the places of hard
work and little pay. For example, they have got five out of ten
_parochial_ recommendations; but, out of sixteen appointments to
deaneries and canonries, they have received four, and those, with
the exception of Mr. Furse, the worst. I could supply you with the
lists in detail.

One admission I must make; the evidently broad churchmen are too
large a proportion of the non-high, and the low churchmen rather
too small, a disproportion which I should hope to remove, but
undoubtedly the low churchman of the present day has a poorer
share than half a century ago of the working energy of the church.

All these terms, High, Low, and Broad, are rather repugnant to me,
but I use them as a currency of tokens with which it is difficult
to dispense.

Turning from this point of view to the recognition of learning and genius,
in the course of his first administration we find that he made Church dean
of St. Paul's, and Scott of the Greek lexicon dean of Rochester, Liddon
and Lightfoot canons of St. Paul's, Kingsley first canon of Chester, and
then of Westminster, Vaughan master of the Temple.

Chapter XI. Catholic Country And Protestant Parliament. (1873)

It is all very well to establish united education, but if the
persons to be educated decline to unite, your efforts will be
thrown away. The question then occurs whether it is best to
establish a system, rejected by those concerned, in the hope that
it will gradually work its way into acceptance in spite of the
intolerance of priests, or to endow the separate denominational
bodies on the ground that even such education is better than none,
or, finally, to do nothing. The question is one of statesmanship
enlightened by a knowledge of facts, and of the sentiments of the
population.--LESLIE STEPHEN.

I

Descending from her alien throne, the Irish church had now taken her place
among the most prosperous of free communions. To Irish cultivators a
definite interest of possession had been indirectly confirmed in the land
to which most of its value had been given by their own toil. A third
branch of the upas tree of poisonous ascendency described by Mr. Gladstone
during the election of 1868, still awaited his axe. The fitness of an
absentee parliament to govern Ireland was again to be tested.