[1] It represented a phase of convert thought which was in opposition to the extreme ultramontanism of William George Ward and Henry Edward Manning and eventually led to increasing friction with the leading members of the newly established English hierarchy.
According to its final number: The Rambler was commenced on 1st of January 1848 as a weekly magazine of home and foreign literature, politics, science and art.
John Henry Newman wrote verses that were published and counseled Capes to avoid controversy with Wiseman's competing publication, the Dublin Review.
[2] James Spencer Northcote, like Capes, a teacher at Prior Park College, had spent three years in Rome, some of the time with noted archaeologist Giovanni Battista de Rossi.
The last number was published in May 1862, and a quarterly journal, The Home and Foreign Review, under the same editorial management, appeared in its place in July of that year.
He ran into conflict with those who disapproved of a layman writing about theology and of his liberal views, and was forced to resign in 1859, being briefly replaced with Newman.