This is the fifth and final volume of Newman's unpublished sermons. It contains the earliest sermons that he preached as a curate at Clement's Church in Oxford, as well as two sermons in aid of charities that he preached the year after he left St Clement's. There are forty-three complete sermons, eight fragments and twenty-nine abstracts of sermons. One cannot say that there are any gems in this volume, or indeed in the other four volumes, that Newman missed when he selected sermons for inclusion in Parochial sermons and Plain sermons. But, that said, there are the occasional flashes of the psychological insight that made Newman such an effective and powerful preacher. It was during his time in this working-class parish that Newman gradually abandoned the Evangelicalism that he had imbibed from the books and conversation of his old schoolmaster Walter Mayers in 1816 when he had been converted to a dogmatic Christianity. This was the result partly of coming under the influence of the liberal Oriel Senior Common Room (the ‘Noetics’) and partly of his experience in the parish where the Evangelical distinction, for example, between ‘nominal’ and ‘real’ Christians seemed in practice to be unreal. This ‘de-conversion’ can be seen very clearly in a sermon of late 1825 where what Newman was to call daringly ‘the dispensation of paganism’ in Arians of the fourth century (1833) is anticipated in a reference to the ‘traditions’ that can be found among pagans that ‘illustrate and confirm the revealed doctrines’. And in a later sermon he even allows that, although ‘baptism gives us our title to the Holy Spirit … God has promised it in the freest manner to all who ask and thus that in some sense the whole world and not only the church has a title to it through Christ if they seek for it in prayer’. I noticed eight places where the text has gone awry. And it is astonishing that the Clarendon Press should publish an ‘introductory note’ containing such solecisms as ‘a damned side better’ and ‘OK’.