W.C. LUBENOW. The Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914: Liberalism, Imagination and Friendship in British Intellectual and Professional Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xvi + 458, appendix, bibliography, index. $59.95.

The Cambridge Conversazione Society, or "the Society," whose members are "Apostles," was started in 1820 by George Tomlinson, destined to become the first bishop of Gibraltar, and eleven other evangelical members of St. John's College, although it soom became centered upon St. John's neighbor, Trinity. Its purpose was to discuss serious questions, raised through ...

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