The Henson Journals

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Monday, January 14th, 1924.

I can only consider Gothic art as a part of the medieval revival which distinguishes our age and seems to me as important as the revival of pagan learning in the 15th century. It is the culminating point of my reactionary and contracted opinions that a Grecian building, especially a church, seems to me as great an anachronism now as an invocation of Apollo and the muses in a poem. Quid plura? I have condemned myself.

Lord Acton. Feb 1859.

I gave a final revision to the Article, and sent it off to the Editor of the "Nineteenth Century and After". An ordination candidate named Cole was brought to me by Clayton – another Knutsford man, now at King's College, London. He stayed to lunch, and afterwards went with me to Durham. I presided at a meeting of the Sons of the Clergy, where we voted £52 to the widow of poor Brewer, and £37:10:0 to that woeful Mrs Rooker. On returning to Auckland, I wrote to the Bishop of Bradford asking him whether he could find a place for the woeful curate. Knight thinks, as I do, that it is not possible for him to find a place in the diocese. The curate at Hartlepool wrote to say that he was leaving the diocese because there was no prospect of "promotion"!

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