Even Mr. Lowe's criticism on the personnel of the Oxford
Com- mission was exaggerated. Lord Selborne was devoted to the High Church, and the only lawyer who ever published a book of hymns. Well, he is not so devoted to High-Churchism but that he was the most liberal of all the Peers on the Burials question. The Right Hon. Mountague Bernard was the editor of a High-Church paper,—which Mr. Bernard at once wrote to deny. Sir Henry Maine was Lord Salisbury's " alter ego,"—we should prefer to say, at least in relation to this matter, his better self. Mr. Justice Grove would have no time. Lord Redesdale's great forte was obstruction—Dr. Burgon is a "jocose fanatic"—and to Mr. Ridley alone there is no objection. We have never been satisfied with the Commission, but this picture of it is mere caricature, with every fault magnified and every excellence . concealed.
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