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John Henry Newman Apologia Pro Vita Sua

Title: Apologia Pro Vita Sua: Being a Reply to a Pamphlet Entitled "What, Then, Does Dr. Newman Mean?" [With the 2 preceding pamphlets]
Author: Newman, John Henry, Cardinal and Charles Kingsley
Description: iv, 430, 127 pp. Bound with: [Newman, John Henry]. Mr. Kingsley and Dr. Newman: A Correspondence on the Question Whether Dr. Newman Teaches That Truth is No Virtue? 34 pp. London: Longman, Green, et al, 1864 [and] Kingsley, Charles. "What, Then, Does Dr. Newman Mean?" A Reply to a Pamphlet Lately Published by Dr. Newman. 48 pp. London: Macmillan and Co., 1864. The 3 items bound together in one octavo volume. 8¼x5¼, period full brown polished calf, ruled panels, morocco spine label. All first editionsKingsley sparked a controversy when, in a review of Froude's History of England, he wrote "Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy. Father Newman informs us that it need not be, and on the whole ought not to be; that cunning is the weapon which Heaven has given to the saints wherewith to withstand the brute male force of the wicked world which marries and is given in marriage." The three items here offered detail the controversy, culminating with the publication of Newman's biographical masterpiece, 'Apologia Pro Vita Sua'.
Heading: Place Published: London
Publisher: Longman, Green, et al
Date Published: 1864