orator. He had in fact no
practice in public speaking. _His friends, however, told him_ that he
was no mean performer on the violin, and if he agreed to meet Canon
M'Neill, he would only make one condition, that the Canon should open
the meeting, and say all he had to say, after which he (Mr. Newman)
would conclude with a tune on the violin. The public would then be
able to judge which was the better man."[21] With mere fiddling, a
fluency void of expression he had little patience, and when, at a term
"break-up," a youth's bow cleverly capered about on a violoncello, he
uttered no compliment when the boy had concluded his flourishes. It
was a mere display for executive skill, without feeling.

[Footnote 10: Mozley, _Correspondence_, i. p. 52.]

[Footnote 11: _Ibid._]

[Footnote 12: Mozley, _Corr._ i. p. 71. On one occasion (between
1860-70) two Oratory boys went up to his room to make a complaint, and
hearing only "fiddling" the other side of the door, made bold to
enter, but their visit was ill-timed. "Every Englishman's house is his
castle," said the Father, and he "went on fiddling." This term,
"Father," is what every one in the house called Dr. Newman, and
correctly, as being Father Superior of the Oratory. It is the name (it
need scarcely be added) that he liked to be called by.]

[Footnote 13: _Ibid._ i. p. 104: Provost Hawkins, at this time a
Fellow, and ultimately succeeding Copleston, had no love for music,
and rather despised such a thing as being "a sign of an effeminate (or
frivolous) mind." He used one or other of these terms, or _both_.]

[Footnote 14: Mozley, _Corr._ ii. p. 22.]

[Footnote 15: _Ibid._ i. p. 146.]

[Footnote 16: She writes in July, 1843: "Now I do so wish, John, you
would pay us a visit. I will practise hard to get up some Beethoven."
(Mozley, _Corr._ ii. 415.)]

[Footnote 17: With this difference, however, Philomel had not to learn
her regrets: she knew them already.]

[Footnote 18: _Reminiscences_, i. pp. 247, 248, Second Edition, 1882.
Of statements in this work the Cardinal humorously observed: "When a
thing won't stand on three legs, Tom supplies a fourth." The Father
played the viola a good deal, which is larger than the violin; hence
Mr. Mozley's "different instruments," &c.]

[Footnote 19: One of the boys was once lent this aged green baize bag,
and losing it, never heard the end of it. Whenever there was question
of lending him anything else, the Father would say very