jealousy and suspicion which still embitter the relations
of the different religious bodies in England, and which work for evil
even in its politics. He created, as Dean Stanley said, a new type of
episcopal excellence: and why should not originality be shown in the
conception and discharge of an office as well as in the sphere of pure
thought or of literary creation?

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[30] Two Lives of Dr. Fraser have been published, one (in 1887) by the
late Judge Hughes, the other, which gives a fuller impression
of his personal character, by the Rev. J. W. Diggle (1891).

[31] He was a good judge of horses, and had in his youth been fond of
hunting.

[32] A clergyman of his diocese had once, under the greatest
provocation, knocked down a person who had insulted him, and
the bishop wrote him a letter of reproof pointing out (among
other things) that, exposed as the Church of England was to
much criticism on all hands, her ministers ought to be very
careful in their demeanour. The offender replied by saying, "I
must regretfully admit that being grossly insulted, and
forgetting in the heat of the moment the critical position of
the Church of England, I did knock the man down, etc." Fraser,
delighted with this turning of the tables on himself, told me
the anecdote with great glee, and invited the clergyman to stay
with him not long afterwards.

[33] He was himself aware that this caused displeasure. In his latest
Charge, delivered some months before his death, he said: "I am
charged, amongst other grievous sins, with that of thinking not
unkindly, and speaking not unfavourably, of Dissenters. I don't
profess to love dissent, but I have received innumerable
kindnesses from Dissenters. Why should I abuse them? Why should
I call them hard names? Remembering how Nonconformity was
made--no doubt sometimes by self-will and pride and prejudice
and ignorance, but far more often by the Church's supineness,
neglect, and intolerance in days long since gone by, of which
we have not yet paid the full penalty--though, as I have said,
I love not the thing, I cannot speak harshly of it."

That a defence was needed may seem strange to those who do not
know England.

SIR STAFFORD HENRY NORTHCOTE, EARL OF IDDESLEIGH[34]

Sir Stafford Nor