ing. His article on
"Jewel" was more than anything else a landmark in the progress of Roman
ideas.[118]

From the time of Mr. Ward's connexion with the _British Critic_, its
anti-Anglican articles had given rise to complaints which did not become
less loud as time went on. He was a troublesome contributor to his
editor, Mr. T. Mozley, and he made the hair of many of his readers stand
on end with his denunciations of things English and eulogies of things
Roman.

My first troubles (writes Mr. Mozley) were with Oakeley and Ward. I
will not say that I hesitated much as to the truth of what they wrote,
for in that matter I was inclined to go very far, at least in the way
of toleration. Yet it appeared to me quite impossible either that any
great number of English Churchmen would ever go so far, or that the
persons possessing authority in the Church would fail to protest, not
to say more.... As to Ward I did but touch a filament or two in one of
his monstrous cobwebs, and off he ran instantly to Newman to complain
of my gratuitous impertinence. Many years after I was forcibly
reminded of him by a pretty group of a little Cupid flying to his
mother to show a wasp-sting he had just received. Newman was then in
this difficulty. He did not disagree with what Ward had written; but,
on the other hand, he had given neither me nor Ward to understand that
he was likely to step in between us. In fact, he wished to be entirely
clear of the editorship. This, however, was a thing that Ward could
not or would not understand.[119]

The discontent of readers of the _British Critic_ was great. It was
expressed in various ways, and was represented by a pamphlet of Mr. W.
Palmer's of Worcester, in which he contrasted, with words of severe
condemnation, the later writers in the Review with the teaching of the
earlier _Tracts for the Times_, and denounced the "Romanising" tendency
shown in its articles. In the autumn of 1843 the Review came to an end.
A field of work was thus cut off from Mr. Ward. Full of the interest of
the ideas which possessed him, always equipped and cheerfully ready for
the argumentative encounter, and keenly relishing the _certaminis
gaudia_, he at once seized the occasion of Mr. Palmer's pamphlet to
state what he considered his position, and to set himself right in the
eyes of all fair and intelligent readers. He intended a long pamphlet.
It gradually grew under his hands--he was not yet