Excerpt from Select Essays of John Henry Cardinal Newman In 1808 he was sent to Ealing School, famous in its day. He was very sharp, and quickly ran from bottom to top. His tastes were literary. He began writing in prose and verse at the age of eleven, and took much pains in matter of style. To this labour he devoted his play-time, and he was never known to take part in any games. He read the tales of Miss Porter, Mrs. Radcliffe, and, above all, Sir Walter Scott, and from these, no doubt, got his first scent of a Catholic atmosphere. Music, too, was not forgot ten. To the end of his days Newman was a good violinist; and it is pleasant to think of such a man playing for hours at a stretch in the quartets of Haydn, Mozart, and Beet hoven, the last of whom be thoroughly appreciated, a point of taste not too common in the early years of the nineteenth century. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.