Introduction
This review was Heeley’s second contribution to the January issue of
The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine
.
In one of the shortest pieces in any of the twelve issues of the
magazine, Heeley praises Kingsley’s accessible, unornamented language and
his opposition to “popular
sentiment” as contrary to the Church Catechism. Kingsley is one of
the authors whom the Morris brotherhood most admired, and is referred to in several other
essays in
The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine
(see Burne-Jones’s essay on
Thackeray, Fulford’s essay on
women’s education and Cracroft’s essay on popular lectures.