NEWMAN, FRANCIS WILLIAM. brother of the preceding, was b. in London in 1805, and educated at the school of Ealing. Thence he passed to Worcester college, Oxford, where lie obtained first-class honors in classics and mathematics in 1826, and, in the same year, a fellowship in Ilaliol college. This fellowship, however, he resigned; and he withdrew from the university in at the approach of the time for taking the degree of M.A., declining the subscription to the 39 articles which was required front candidates for the degree. After a lengthened tour in the'east he was appointed classical tutor in Bristol college, 1834. In 1840 he accepted a similar professorship in Manchester New college, and, in 1846, his great reputation for scholarship and his general accom plishments led to his being appointed to the chair of Latin in University college, London, which he held till 1863. During all this time he has not only been an active contributor to numerous literary and scientific periodicals, and to various branches of ancient and modern literature, but has also had a leading part in the controversies on religion, in which he has taken the line directly opposite to that chosen by his elder brother, being no less ardent as a disciple of the extreme rationalistic school than John Henry Newman of the dogmatical. These opinions, and the system founded upon them, form the snbject
of his well-known work, Phases of Moth, or Passages from the History of any Creed (1850); and of many essays in the Westminster, Eclectic, and other reviews; but he is also the author of very many separate publications. Of these several regard the controversy to which we have referred—as, Catholic Union; Essays Towards a Church of the Future (1844); A State Church not Defensible (1846); a History of the Hebrew Monarchy (1847); The Soul, its Sorrows and Aspirations (1849). Others are on political or social topics— as, Radical Reforms, Financial and Organic (1348); The Crimes of the house of Hapsburg (1851); Lectures on Political Economy (1857); Europe of the Near Future (1871). A large number are devoted to historical, classical, and scientific subjects, the most important of which are Contrasts of Ancient and Modern. History (1847); Regal Rome (1852); transla tions into "unrhymed meter" of the Odes of Horace (1853), and the Iliad of Komen (1856); a treatise on Difficulties of Elementary Geometry; Handbook: of Arabic (1866); Orthoepy (1869), etc.