March 27, 2000 (reported by Dr. Ralph Blair) The venue was the long, high ceilinged hall of the Harvard Club of New York City. The dark wood paneling reflected the glow of crimson shaded lamps throughout the room. Harvard and Oxford Alumni Associations sponsored the meeting. The speaker was Laurence Harwood, OBE, one of the Godsons of C. S. Lewis. Read More ›
I just got the new Lewis Legacy, and as always it is fascinating. I like the “C.S. Lewis: Not On Their Side/Not On Our Side” articles — I was very surprised at first to meet “mere” Christians who held Lewis in disesteem, but now I’ve got used to it; as Thomas Howard notes, many of them can’t stomach his “Catholic” Read More ›
by James O’Fee The Backward Glance: C. S. Lewis and Ireland, by Ronald W. Bresland,(The Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen’s University of Belfast, 1999) ISBN 0 85389 746 8, paperback, 140 pp, 8.50 (UK), $17.95 (amazon.com). C. S. Lewis, at Home in Ireland by David Bleakley, Foreword by Walter Hooper (Bangor, Northern Ireland: Strandtown Press, 1998) ISBN 0953 55120-2, Read More ›
by John Bremer In my article “C. S. Lewis and the Ceremonies of Oxford University,” in The Lewis Legacy for Winter 1999, I refer (p.5) to the term Mugger used by Lewis to designate the Master of his college, Univ. It seemed puzzling then, as my note indicates, but clarification is to be found in the diaries of W.H. Lewis, Read More ›
In her 2,700-word article about pilgrimage, “Walking Where Lewis Walked,” (Christianity Today, February 2000) Virginia Stem Owens told how her husband got her to reluctantly accompany him on a group C. S. Lewis tour, and how surprised she was to learn that Lewis was only five feet tall. As she put it, much shorter than Anthony Hopkins. (Owens is the Read More ›
by James O’Fee Cunard has decided to award the contract for its latest cruise liner, the Queen Mary II, to a French shipbuilding firm rather than to the Belfast shipbuilders Harland’s and Wolff. This contract was widely regarded as the last hope for Harland’s, whose order-book is empty after June 2000. C. S. Lewis saw Harland’s build the Titanic and Read More ›
(This poem from Spirits in Bondage is about grace, and a precurser of “The Day with a White Mark.”) So piteously the lonely soul of manShudders before this universal plan, So grievous is the burden and the pain,So heavy weighs the long, material chain From cause to cause, too merciless for hate,The nightmare march of unrelenting fate, I think that Read More ›
The following announcement from the new issue of the journal Seven reveals the identity of a key member of the anonymous steering commitee that controls policy and decisions of the Wade Center. The Marion E Wade Center is pleased to announce plans to construct a new Wade Center facility on the campus of Wheaton, College in Illinois. The proposed site Read More ›
By 1969 John Lawlor had become a close friend of Walter Hooper — so close that he gave Hooper strong personal advice about his sexual decisions. On 11 May he wrote “Walter, resist absolutely any notion of your drifting (or being psycho-pressured — a nice touch!) into marriage. The physical indication is the most reliable one we have. It is Read More ›
In 1995 W. A. Meeuws, Managing Director of Thornton’s bookstore in Oxford, thoughtfully sent me a list of all the books by Lewis that had been translated into foreign languages, including the publisher, location, date, number of pages, and binding. The list included 168 books in 23 languages ranging from Afrikans to Swedish. The language with the most Lewis books Read More ›