PREFACE THIS volume had its origin in a lecture on "John Keble and the Oxford Movement," prepared for delivery at a meeting of the Church Society of Frome, Somerset, in the spring of 1899, and repeated later at a similar gathering in the Chapter House, Bristol Cathedral. It was soon afterwards suggested to the author to write short lives of the five great men whose names hold so prominent a place in the history of the Oxford Movement. The book obviously has no claim to originality. The two admirable biographies of Keble by Sir John Coleridge and the present Warden of Keble have practically covered the ground of the whole life of the author of the "Christian Year." The "Apologia,” his "Life and Letters," edited by his sister, |