ise would be lost,
the Catalogue of English Saints which I formed, as preparatory to the
Series of their Lives which was begun in the above years. It is but a
first Essay, and has many obvious imperfections; but it may be useful to
others as a step towards a complete hagiography for England. For
instance St. Osberga is omitted; I suppose because it was not easy to
learn any thing about her. Boniface of Canterbury is inserted, though
passed over by the Bollandists on the ground of the absence of proof of
a _cultus_ having been paid to him. The Saints of Cornwall were too
numerous to be attempted. Among the men of note, not Saints, King Edward
II. is included from piety towards the founder of Oriel College. With
these admissions I present my Paper to the reader.

_Preparing for Publication, in Periodical Numbers, in small 8vo,
The Lives of the English Saints, Edited by the Rev. John Henry
Newman, B.D., Fellow of Oriel College._

It is the compensation of the disorders and perplexities of
these latter times of the Church that we have the history of the
foregoing. We indeed of this day have been reserved to witness a
disorganization of the City of God, which it never entered into
the minds of the early believers to imagine: but we are
witnesses also of its triumphs and of its luminaries through
those many ages which have brought about the misfortunes which
at present overshadow it. If they were blessed who lived in
primitive times, and saw the fresh traces of their Lord, and
heard the echoes of Apostolic voices, blessed too are we whose
special portion it is to see that same Lord revealed in His
Saints. The wonders of His grace in the soul of man, its
creative power, its inexhaustible resources, its manifold
operation, all this we know, as they knew it not. They never
heard the names of St. Gregory, St. Bernard, St. Francis, and
St. Louis. In fixing our thoughts then, as in an undertaking
like the present, on the History of the Saints, we are but
availing ourselves of that solace and recompense of our peculiar
trials which has been provided for our need by our Gracious
Master.

And there are special reasons at this time for recurring to the
Saints of our own dear and glorious, most favoured, yet most
erring and most unfortunate England. Such a recurrence may serve
to make us love our country better, and on truer g