Excerpt from Literature a Lecture by John Henry, Cardinal Newman

The present edition of Cardinal Newman's Literature looks to a double end. It aims both to introduce the student to the critical analysis of a prose style of acknowledged excellence and to serve him as a starting point in his acquisition of a body of sound principle and theory regarding literature and its problems. It is perhaps superfluous to say that Newman's style is one to be particularly commended to the student of composition; it is clear, vigorous, winning, notably free from exaggeration and mannerism, and, in a word, inclusive to a remarkable degree of all the fundamental qualities of good writing. The rhetorical studies based upon the text direct analysis along the lines of chief interest and importance to the student; they are meant to furnish just that element of progressive method without which rhetorical analysis often proves an exercise of doubtful value. The second group of studies is intended to be directive and suggestive only, and not to supply in any manner the place of a text-book of literary theory.

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