A REVISITATION WHILE VISITING Oxford in the summer of 1983, and browsing in Blackwell's, I realized --a stack of new books announced-- that it was not just the eightieth anniversary of the Rhodes Scholarships but the 150th of a less worldly event: the beginning of the Oxford, or Tractarian, Movement. It was embarrassing not to have remembered. But then, while some were obviously marking the anniversary in print, few seemed to be talking about it, or even aware of it. Indeed, in a Spectator sent to me by a friend a few weeks later, I learned that the formal commemorative gathering in the Univ...
