This is the ninth volume in the series of reprints from the University of Notre Dame Press of the works of John Henry Newman. Subtitled the ‘Birmingham Oratory Millennium Edition’ (the first volume in the series was published in 2000, edited by the fathers of the Birmingham Oratory), it brings together many of Newman's most important writings, with fresh critical introductions by sympathetic scholars including Francis McGrath, Geoffrey Rowell and Gerard Tracey, under the general editorship of James Tolhurst. They deliberately reproduce, in facsimile, the basic text and pagination of the Longman, Green editions of the 1890s, so the book has an old-style look, but the quality of reproduction is neat and clear. On Amazon, Loss and gain is hidden away amongst a plethora of modern dieting manuals. It was last published thirty years ago by Oxford University Press, edited by Alan Hill for their World Classics series. It is therefore good to have the novel back in print, and Sheridan Gilley's introduction is a gem. He succinctly addresses the role of fiction within Victorian Catholic culture, arguing that Loss and gain provides a more accessible engagement with Newman's ideas of religious conversion than his philosophical and theological writings, though Newman was admittedly a second-rate novelist, at best. Some of his characters are almost Bunyanesque, like the Evangelical Mr Freeborn, and the Irvingite, Mr Highfly, and Gilley emphasises the novel's satirical intent. The editorial notes, at the rear of the volume, are judicious.