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Updated: May 14, 2025
"Westward Ho!" is a sterling historical romance, one of the more successful books in a select list which embraces "The Cloister and the Hearth," "Lorna Doone," and "John Inglesant." "Hypatia," examined dispassionately, may be described as an historical romance with elements of greatness rather than a great historical romance.
A trace of them remains in the terrace on the east of the Warden's garden, which did not then exist for Inglesant to walk in, and muse on the problems of the day. Oxford in his time at Wadham presented a curious spectacle.
It was one that she had nearly finished at the time of Mr. Grinstead's illness- John Inglesant arriving in his armour of light on his wedding morning- and the associations were so painful that she said she never wished to see it again.
The latter, after attracting very wide attraction by a remarkable book almost a kind to itself John Inglesant , a half historical, half ecclesiastical novel of seventeenth-century life, never did anything else that was any good at all, and indeed tried little.
Moreover, he attempted humorous effects, not very successfully; because one of the interesting points about, John Inglesant is that there is hardly the slightest touch of humour from beginning to end, except perhaps in the fantastic mixture of tragedy and comedy in the carnival scene, presided over by the man who masquerades as a corpse; and even here the humour is almost entirely of a macabre type.
In 'John Inglesant' a man of genius has drawn a picture of Oxford when it was the residence of the King and Queen and Court.
But very close to it I put 'Lorna Doone, and 'The Heart of Midlothian, and 'The Cloister and the Hearth, and 'The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, and 'John Inglesant." "If you love 'John Inglesant," said I, "you must be getting old, Uncle Peter." "Oh, no," he answered, comfortably lighting his pipe with a live coal of wood from the hearth, "I am only growing up."
John Inglesant entered Wadham before the war began the date of his admission is obviously uncertain and lived there from time to time till the rout at Naseby, in 1645, brought about the surrender of Oxford to the Parliament in 1646. It was by a sure instinct that he chose Wadham, that quiet and beautiful college, for his home.
I have already quoted from a writer with whom I think Wilberforce would have felt a close affinity, though, as a matter of fact, I never heard him mention that writer's name; I mean J. H. Shorthouse; and I return to the same book the stimulating story of John Inglesant for my concluding words, which seem to express, with accidental fidelity, the principle of Wilberforce's spiritual being: "We are like children, or men in a tennis-court, and before our conquest is half-won, the dim twilight comes and stops the game; nevertheless, let us keep our places, and above all hold fast by the law of life we feel within.
The great speech of Serenus de Cressy in "John Inglesant" described once for all the highest type of Christian spirituality. But in practice this link and this influence are too subtle for the mass of men. They must constantly be re-experienced by ardent and consecrated souls; and by them be mediated to fresh groups, formed within or without the institutional frame.
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