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8vo.

  1. 'Comments on the Text of Æschylus,' 1884, 8vo; 'Supplement … and Notes on Euripides,' 1890, 8vo.
  2. 'Kabail Vocabulary,' 1887, 8vo.

II. Mathematical:

  1. 'The Difficulties of Elementary Geometry,' 1841, 8vo.
  2. 'Mathematical Tracts,' Cambridge, 1888, sq. 8vo.
  3. 'Elliptic Integrals,' Cambridge, 1889, 8vo (an instalment had been published in the 'Dublin and Cambridge Magazine' forty years before).

III. Historical:

  1. 'Four Lectures on the Contrasts of Ancient and Modern History,' 1847, 16mo.
  2. 'Regal Rome,' 1852, 8vo.
  3. 'The Crimes of the House of Hapsburg,' 1853, 8vo.

IV. Social and Political:

  1. 'A State Church not Defensible,' 1845, 12mo; 1848, 12mo.
  2. 'On Separating … Church from State,' 1846, 12mo.
  3. 'Appeal to the Middle Classes on … Reforms,' 1848, 8vo.
  4. 'On … Our National Debt,' 1849, 8vo.
  5. 'Lectures on Political Economy,' 1851, 12mo.
  6. 'The Ethics of War,' 1860, 8vo.
  7. 'English Institutions and their … Reforms,' 1865, 8vo.
  8. 'The Permissive Bill,' Manchester, 1865, 8vo.
  9. 'The Cure of the great Social Evil,' 1869, 8vo; first part reprinted as 'On the State Provision for Vice,' 1871, 8vo; second part reprinted, 1889, 8vo.
  10. 'Europe of the near Future,' 1871, 8vo.
  11. 'Lecture on Women's Suffrage,' Bristol [1869], 8vo.
  12. 'Essays on Diet,' 1883, 8vo.
  13. 'The Land as National Property' [1886], 8vo.
  14. 'The Corruption now called Neo-Malthusianism,' 1889, 8vo; 1890, 8vo.
  15. 'The Vaccination Question,' 5th edit. 1895, 8vo.

V. Religious:

  1. 'On the Relation of Free Churches to Moral Sentiment,' 1847, 8vo.
  2. 'Thoughts on a Free and Comprehensive Christianity,' Ramsgate [1865], 8vo.
  3. 'The Religious Weakness of Protestantism,' Ramsgate, 1866, 8vo.
  4. 'On the Defective Morality of the New Testament,' Ramsgate, 1867, 8vo.
  5. 'The Bigot and the Sceptic,' Ramsgate [1869], 8vo.
  6. 'James and Paul,' Ramsgate, 1869, 8vo.
  7. 'Anthropomorphism,' Ramsgate, 1870, 8vo.
  8. 'On the Causes of Atheism' [1871], 8vo.
  9. 'The Divergence of Calvinism from Pauline Doctrine,' Ramsgate, 1871, 8vo.
  10. 'The Temptation of Jesus,' Ramsgate [1871], 8vo.
  11. 'On the Relation of Theism to Pantheism, and on the Galla Religion,' Ramsgate, 1872, 8vo.
  12. 'Thoughts on the Existence of Evil,' Ramsgate [1872], 8vo.
  13. 'On the Historical Depravation of Christianity,' 1873, 12mo.
  14. 'Ancient Sacrifice,' 1874, 8vo.
  15. 'Hebrew Theism,' 1874, 8vo.
  16. 'The Two Theisms' [1874], 8vo.
  17. 'On this and the other World' [1875], 8vo.
  18. 'Religion not History,' 1877, 8vo.
  19. 'Morning Prayers,' 1878, 8vo; 1882, 8vo.
  20. 'What is Christianity without Christ?' 1881, 8vo.
  21. 'A Christian Commonwealth,' 1883, 8vo.
  22. 'Christianity in its Cradle,' 1884, 8vo; 1886, 8vo.
  23. 'Life after Death?' 1886, 8vo; 1887, 8vo.
  24. 'The New Crusades; or the Duty of the Church to the World,' Nottingham, 1886, 8vo.
  25. 'Hebrew Jesus: His true Creed,' Nottingham, 1895, 8vo. Posthumous was
  26. 'Mature Thought on Christianity,' 1897, 8vo, edited by Mr. George Jacob Holyoake.

Several other lectures and 'lay sermons' came from his pen; three of them were reprinted in 'Discourses,' 1875, 8vo; three volumes of his 'Miscellanies' appeared in 1869-80, 8vo. He edited Kossuth's 'Speeches' (1853, 12mo, condensed), and Smith's 'Fruits and Farinacea' (1880, 12mo, abridged). He wrote much in 'Fraser's Magazine,' the 'Westminster,' 'Prospective,' and 'Theological' Reviews, the 'Reasoner,' the 'Index' (Boston, U.S.A.), and other periodicals.

[Times, 6 Oct. 1897; Inquirer, 9 Oct. and 27 Nov. 1897; In Memoriam, Emeritus Professor F. W. Newman, 1897 (portrait); Christian Reformer, 1853, p. 386; Letters and Correspondence of J. H. Newman, 1891; private information; F. W. Newman's works and authorities cited above.]

A. G.

NEWTH, SAMUEL (1821–1898), principal of New College, London, born in 1821, was son of Elisha Newth, by his wife, the eldest daughter of J. Killick. His father was an early convert of Rowland Hill (1744–1833) [q. v.], with whom he was associated at the Surrey congregational chapel, so that Newth's boyhood was passed under the sway of vigorous religious influences, and he came into contact with all the leading congregationalists of the time. His early education was conducted by his father, who instructed him in Greek, Latin, Hebrew, French, and Italian, after which, in 1837, he entered Coward College. He graduated B.A. and then M.A. in the university of London with high mathematical honours, and after ordination settled, in 1842, at Broseley, Shropshire, where for three years he was minister of the congregational chapel. In 1845 he was appointed professor of classics and mathematics at Western College, Plymouth, one of the congregational colleges for training candidates for the ministry.

While holding this appointment he published two elementary text-books on natural philosophy, 'The Elements of Statics, Dyna-