Book excerpt: Acclaimed by leading Church historians as the by far the most useful introduction to the study of the Anglo-Catholic movement in the 1830s, this shows the way in which Dawson draws attention to the hitherto underplayed influence of Hurrell Froude on Newman. Froude emerges as one of the most attractive figures of the time. The author also demonstrates how the principal concerns of the Oxford Movement were doctrinal, not specifically liturgical. He makes the point that were alive in the twentieth century, he would find modern Anglicanism completely incompatible with a true understanding of doctrine. Lucid and fascinating, Dawson's account of one of the most important movements in English thought, has not been bettered since it was first published in 1933.