where he graduated, taking a second class, in 1850. As vice principal

of the theological college at Cuddesdon (1854-1859) he wielded considerable influence, and, on returning to Oxford as vice-principal of St Edmund's Hall, became a growing force among the undergraduates, exercising his influence in strong opposition to the liberal reaction against Tractarianisrn, which had set in after Newman's secession in 1845. In 1864 the bishop of Salisbury (W. K. Hamilton), whose examining chaplain he had been, appointed him prebendary of Salisbury cathedral. In 1866 he delivered his Bampton Lectures on the doctrine of the divinity of Christ. From that time his fame as a preacher, which had been steadily growing, may be considered established. In 1870 he was made canon of St Paul's Cathedral, London. He had before this published Some Wards for God, in which, with great power and eloquence, he combated the scepticism of the day. His preaching at St Paul's soon attracted vast crowds. The afternoon sermon, which fell to the lot of the canon in residence, had usually been delivered in the choir, ~but~ soon after Liddon's appointment it became necessary to preach' the sermon under the dome, where from 3000 to 4000 persons used to gather to hear the preacher. Few orators belonging to the Church of Englandhave acquired so great a reputation as Liddon. Others may have surpassed him in originality, learning or reasoning power, but for grasp of his subject, clearness of language, lucidity of arrangement, felicity of illustration, vividness of imagination, elegance of diction, and above all, for sympathy with the intellectual position of those whom he addressed, he has hardly been rivalled. In the elaborate arrangement of his matter he is thought to have imitated the great French preachers of the age of Louis XIV. In 1870 he had also been made Ireland professor of exegesis at Oxford. The combination of the two appointments gave him extensive influence over the Church of England. With Dean Church he may be said to have restored the waning influence of the Tractarian school, and he succeeded in popularizing the opinions which, in the hands of Pusey and Keble, had appealed to thinkers and scholars. His forceful spirit was equally conspicuous in his opposition to the Church Discipline Act of 1874, and in his denunciation of the Bulgarian atrocities of 1876. In 1882 he resigned his professorship and utilized his thus increased leisure by travelling in Palestine and Egypt, and showed his interest in the Old Catholic movement by visiting Déllinger at Munich. In 1886 he became chancellor of St Paul's, and it is said that he declined more than one offer of a bishopric. He died on the 9th of September 1890, in the full vigour of his intellect and at the zenith of his reputation. He had undertaken and nearly completed an elaborate life of Dr Pusey, for whom his admiration was unbounded; and this work was completed after his death by Messrs Johnston and Wilson. Liddon's great influence during his life was due to his personal fascination and the beauty of his pulpit oratory rather than to any high qualities of intellect. As a theologian his outlook was that of the 16th rather than the 10th century; and, reading his Bampton Lectures now, it is ditiicnlt to realize how they can ever have been hailed as a great contribution to Christian apologetics. To the last he maintained the narrow standpoint of Pusey and Keble, in defiance of all the developments of modern thought and modern scholarship; and his latter years were embittered by the consciousness that the younger generation of the disciples of his school were beginning to make friends of the Mammon of scientific unrighteousness. The publication in 1889 of Lux Mundi, a series of essays attempting to harmonize Anglican Catholic doctrine with modern thought, was a severe blow to him, for it showed that even at the Pusey House, established as the citadel of Puseyism at Oxford, the principles of Pusey were being departed from. Liddon's importance is now mainly historical. He was the last of the classical pulpit orators of the English Church, the last great popular exponent of the traditional Anglican orthodoxy. Besides the works mentioned, Liddon published several volumes of Sermons, a volume of Lent lectures entitled Some Elements of Religion (1870), and a collection of Essays and Addresses on such themes as Buddhism, Dante, &c. 8

See Life and letters, by ]. O. Johnston-(1904);iG. .W. E. Russell, H. P., Liddon (1903);' A. B. Donaldson, Five Great Oxford Leaders (1900), from which the life of Liddon was reprinted separately in 1905.

LIE, JONAS LAURITZ EDEMIL (1833-1908), Norwegian novelist, was born on the 6th of November 1833 close to Hougsund (Eker), near Drammen. In 1838, his father being appointed sheriff, pf Tromsii, the family removed to that Arctic town. Here the future novelist enjoyed an untrammelled childhood among the shipping of the little Nordland capital, and gained acquaintance with the wild seafaring3"lif'e which he was afterwards to describe. In 1846 he was sent-to the naval school at Frederiksvaern, but 'his-extreme near-sight unfitted him for the service, and he was transferred to the Latin school at Bergen. In 1851 he went to the university of Christiania, where Ibsen Lie,

and Bjornson were among his fellow-students. Jonas however, showed at this time no inclination to literature. He pursued his studies as a lawyer, took his degrees in law in and settled down- to practice as ia 'solicitor in the little 1858,

town

of Kongsvinger. In 1860' he married his cousin, Thomasine Lie, whose collaboration in .his work he acknowledged in 1893 in a graceful article ini the Samtiden entitled “'Min hustru.” In 1866 he published hisf first book, a volume 'of poems. He made unlucky speculations-in wood, and the consequent financial embarrassment induced him to return to Christiania tottry his luckas a man of letters. As a journalist he had no success, but.in 1870 he published a melancholy little romance, Den Fremsynte (Eng. trans., The Visionary, 1894), which made him famous. Lie proceeded to Rome, and published Tales in 1871 and Tremasteren “ Fremtiden ” (Eng. trans., The Barque “ Future, ” Chicago, 1879), a' novelfin 1872. His first great book, however, was Lodsen og hans H ustru (The Pilot- and his Wife, 1874), which placed him* at the ihead -of tN<>i>w@g§ an novelists; it was written in the little town of Rocca' di Papain the Albano mountains. From that time'Lie enjoyed, with 'Bjornson-and Ibsen, a stipend as poet from the Norwegian government. Lie spent the next few years partly in Dresden, partly in Stuttgart, with frequent summer excursions to Berchtesgadenl in the Bavarian highlands. During his exile he produced the drama in verse called Faustirla- Strozzi (1876). Returning to Norway, Lie began a series of romances of modern life in Ch-ristiania, of which Thomas Ross (1878) and Adam Schrader (1879) were the earliest. He returned to Germany, and settled first in 'Dresden again, then in Hamburg, until 1882, when he took uphis 'abode in Paris, where he lived in closing retirement in the society of Scandinavian friends. His summers were spent at Berchtesgaden in Tirol. ' The novels of his German period are Rutland (1881) and "Goa paa (“'Go Ahead/” 1882), tales of life", in the Norwegian merchant navy. His subsequent works, produced with great regularity, enjoyed an immense reputation in Norway.

Among the "best of them are: Livsslaven (1883, Eng. trans., “ One of LQ'e's Slaves, ” 1895); Famiyen paa GiUe (“ The Family of GiUe, ” 1883); Malstroem (1885), describing- the gradual ruin of a Norwegian family; Et Samliv (“ Life in Corrirmm, ” 1887), describing marriage of convenience. Two of the most successful of his novels were 'The Cornmodorelr Daughters (1886) and Niobe (1894), both of which were presented to English readers in the International library, edited by Mr Gosse. In 1891-1892 he wrote, under the influence of the new romantic impulse, twenty-four folk-tales, printed in two volumes entitled Trold. Some of these were translated by“R. N. Bain in Weird Tales (1893), illustrated by L. Housman. Among his later-works were the romance Naar Sol gaar ned (“ When the Sim goes down, ” 189 5), the powerful novel of Dyre Rein (1896), the fairy drama of Lindelih (1897), Faste Forland (1899), a romance which contains much which is autobiographical, When the Iron Curtain falls (1901), and The 'Consul (1904). His Samlede 'Vaerker were published at Copenhagen in 14 vols. (1902-1904). Ionas Lie left Paris in 1891, and, after spending a year in Rome, returned to Norway establishing himself at Holskogerr, near Christiansand. He died at Christiania on the 5th of July' 1908. As a novelist he stands with those minute and unobtrusive