13 FEBRUARY 1892, Page 16

CARDINAL MANNING.

I To THE EDITOR Or THE SPECTATOR...1 SIR,—If your correspondent, "E.," will refer to Bishop Ashton Oxenden's recently published autobiography, he will find Cardinal Manning's boyish application of Aut Cxsar, aut nullus, recorded in a pleasanter form. The Bishop's version shows the future Cardinal in a less bumptious aspect than " E.'s " ; but the two stories are substantially the same, and evidently represent a tradition which strongly impressed the minds of Manning's schoolfellows.—I am, Sir, &c.,

G. R.