The New Republic

The New Republic or Culture, Faith and Philosophy in an English Country House by English author William Hurrell Mallock (1849–1923) is a novel first published by Chatto and Windus of London in 1877. The work had its genesis as a serialization. In June–December 1876 it appeared as a series of sketches in Belgravia magazine. Plot introduction The novel is a satire consisting almost entirely of dialogue and mocking most of the important figures then at Oxford University, with regards to aestheticism and Hellenism. Characters The famous people Mallock depicts are as follows, together with the names of the characters that represent them. Matthew Arnold — Mr. Luke Thomas Carlyle — Donald Gordon William Kingdon Clifford — Mr. Saunders Violet Fane — Mrs. Sinclair William Money Hardinge — Robert Leslie Thomas Huxley — Mr. Storks Benjamin Jowett — Dr. Jenkinson W. H. Mallock — Otho Laurence Walter Pater — Mr. Rose Edward Bouverie Pusey — Dr. Seydon John Ruskin — Mr. Herbert John Tyndall — Mr. Stockton