William Samuel Lilly


William Samuel Lilly was an English barrister and man of letters.

Biography

Lilly was born at Fifehead, Dorset, in 1840. He was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, taking his degree of LL.B. in 1862, and his LL.M. in 1870. After some private tuition from Sir Adolphus William Ward, he entered the Indian civil service, becoming in 1869 secretary to the government of Madras. Owing to a breakdown in health, however, he had to return to England, where he devoted himself to a career in literature. With his wide-ranging intellectual interests, Lilly occasionally wrote for some of the major publications of his time, such as The [Nineteenth Century (periodical)|The Nineteenth Century,] The Contemporary Review, ''The Fortnightly Review, Popular Science Monthly, and The Dublin Review''.
Lilly was a convert to Roman Catholicism, and from 1874 was secretary to the Catholic Union of Great Britain. He was also a Justice of the Peace for Middlesex and London.

Works

Selected articlesThe Dublin Review, Vol. LXXX.
  • "The True View of the Protestant Reformation," The Dublin Review, Vol. LXXXI.
  • "The Renaissance and Liberty," The Dublin Review, Vol. LXXXII.
  • "Archbishop Trench on Medieval Church History," The Dublin Review, Vol. LXXXII.The Quarterly Review, Vol. CXLVII.
  • "Cardinal Newman," The Fortnightly Review, Vol. XXXII.
  • "The Eighteenth Century," The Dublin Review, Vol. LXXXIV.The Dublin Review, Vol. LXXXV.The Contemporary Review, Vol. XXXVII.The Dublin Review, Vol. LXXXVI.The Dublin Review, Vol. LXXXIX.The Contemporary Review, Vol. XXXIX.The Nineteenth Century, Vol. XI, 1882.The Dublin Review, Vol. XCI.
  • "The Resurrection of Ireland," The Dublin Review, Vol. XCI.The Contemporary Review, Vol. XLI.
  • "Supernaturalism: Mediæval and Classical," The Nineteenth Century, Vol. XIV.The Contemporary Review, Vol. XLIV.The Dublin Review, Vol. XCIV.The Contemporary Review, Vol. XLV.
  • "Modern Mysticism," The Fortnightly Review, Vol. XLII.The Contemporary Review, Vol. XLVIII.
  • "The New Naturalism," The Fortnightly Review, Vol. XLIV.
  • "Darwinism and Democracy," The Fortnightly Review, Vol. XLV.
  • "Liberty and Liberalism," The Fortnightly Review, Vol. XLV.The Dublin Review, Vol. XCIX.The Forum, Vol. II
  • "Materialism and Morality," The Fortnightly Review, Vol. XLVI.The Dublin Review, Vol. C.The Dublin Review, Vol. C.The Forum, Vol. IV.
  • "The Province of Physics: A Rejoinder to Professor Huxley," The Fortnightly Review, Vol. XLVII.
  • "The Higher Theism," The Fortnightly Review, Vol. XLVIII.The Dublin Review, Vol. CIII.
  • "Right and Wrong," The Fortnightly Review, Vol. XLIX.The Nineteenth Century, Vol. XXIV.
  • "Herbert Spencer as a Moralist," The Fortnightly Review, Vol. XLIX.
  • "Collins Epitome of Herbert Spencer," The Nineteenth Century, Vol. XXVII.The Dublin Review, Vol. CV.The Forum, Vol. VI.The Forum, Vol. VII.The Forum, Vol. VII.The Forum, Vol. VII.The Forum, Vol. VIII.The Forum, Vol. VIII.
  • "The Ethics of Punishment," The Fortnightly Review, Vol. LII.The Nineteenth Century, Vol. XXV.
  • "In Search of a Religion," The Nineteenth Century, Vol. XXVI.The Contemporary Review, Vol. LV.The Contemporary Review, Vol. LVI.
  • "John Henry Newman: In Memoriam," The Fortnightly Review, Vol. LIV.The Forum, Vol. X.The Forum, Vol. X.The Forum, Vol. XI.The Dublin Review, Vol. CVIII.
  • "The Penal Laws: An Historical Retrospect," The Dublin Review, Vol. CIX.The New Review, Vol. IX.
  • "Self-Government," The Fortnightly Review, Vol. LX.
  • "The Philosophy of Crime," The Contemporary Review, Vol. LXV.
  • "Alexander Pope," The Dublin Review, Vol. CXIV.
  • "The New Spirit in History," The Nineteenth Century, Vol. XXXVIII.
  • "The Mission of Tennyson," The Fortnightly Review, Vol. XXXVIII.
  • "An Object Lesson in Politics," The Fortnightly Review, Vol. LXVIII.
  • "Mr. Wilfrid Ward's Cardinal Wiseman," The Fortnightly Review, Vol. LXIX.The Nineteenth Century, Vol. XLIII.The Nineteenth Century, Vol. XLIV.The Nineteenth Century, Vol. XLVII.The Dublin Review, Vol. CXXXVIII, 1906.The Dublin Review, Vol. CXLIII, 1908.The Nineteenth Century and After, Vol. LXV.
  • "The Question of the House of Lords," The Nineteenth Century and After, Vol. LXVIII.
  • "The Philosophy of Strikes," The Nineteenth Century and After, Vol. LXX.The Dublin Review, Vol. CXLVIII.The Dublin Review, Vol. CXLIX.
  • "Substitutes for Christianity," The Fortnightly Review, Vol. XCVII.
  • "The Rule of Funk," The Nineteenth Century and After, Vol. LXXI.
  • "Criminals and the Criminal Class," The Nineteenth Century and After, Vol. LXXII.
  • "A Vanishing Virtue," The Nineteenth Century and After, Vol. LXXVI.
MiscellanyCharacteristics from the Writings of John Henry Newman.