LAST LECTURES BY WILFRID WARD, BEING THE LOWELL LECTURES, 1914 AND THREE LECTURES DELIVERED AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION, 1915
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1918. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth. Plates. lxxiv, 295p. Shelf wear present on cover. Corners somewhat bent. Foxing on page edges and occasionally within. Otherwise a clean and tight book in good condition. Item #141036
Wilfrid Philip Ward (1856-1916) was an English essayist and biographer. He was born in 1856 at Old Hall, Ware, Hertfordshire to William George Ward. He attended St. Edmund's College in Ware, Hertfordshire; Ushaw College, in Durham, England; and Gregorian University in Rome, Italy. Afterward, he was occupied at educational institutions in Great Britain. He lectured at Lowell Institute, Boston in 1915. He edited the Dublin Review, contributed to publications such as the Edinburgh Review, Quarterly Review, Contemporary Review. He died in 1916. Ward and his friend Baron Friedrich von Hügel have been described as "the two leading lay English Catholic thinkers of their generation". They were both intimately involved in what we now call "the Modernist crisis" in the Catholic Church during Pius X's pontificate. This collection of lectures includes Ward's Lowell lectures on the genius of John Henry Newman, lectures on character in fiction and biography, and three essays on Balfour's Gifford Lectures, Christianity and war, and Oxford liberalism and Catholic dogma.
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