CHARLES KINGSLEY His Letters^ and Memories of His Life EDITED BY HIS WIFE WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MAURICE KINGSLEY IN TWO VOLUMES Volume II NEW YORK J. F. TAYLOR AND COMPANY MDCCCC A^^ 1900 '"V ^-iii (>/.I.V ^; LETTERS AND MEMORIES OF CHARLES KINGSLEY WESTMINSTER EDITION : Copyright, t899. By J. F. Taylor and Company. JBnihcrstto ?3ttss John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A. '- VI, />(,(!.'' K CONTENTS VOLUME II CHAPTER XIV 1856. Aged 37 pagb Winter at Farley Court — Letters to Mr. Bullar — Letter from a Sailor at Hong-Kong — Trades-Union Strikes — Preface to Tauler's Life — Fishing Poems and Fisliing Flies — To F. Maurice — Invitation to Snowdonia — Visit to North Wales — American Visitors . , i CHAPTER XV The Father in his Home — An Atmosphere of Joy — The Out-door Nursery — Life on the Mount — Happy Sun- days — Fear and Falsehood — The Training of Love — Favorites and Friends in the House, in the Stable, and on the Lawn 36 CHAPTER XVI 1857. Aged 38 Winter at Home — Bright Summer Days — The Crowded Church — Charlotte Bront^ — Speculation and Practice — Work beyond the Grave — To an Independent — Tom Brown — Recreation — "Go Hark " — Love beyond the Grave — " Two Years Ago " — Indian Mutiny — " Christ Reigns " — Humor divine — Temporary Failure of Associations 5° vi Contents CHAPTER XVII 1858. Aged 39 Page Eversley Work — Diphtheria — Lectures and Sermons at Aldershot — Blessing the Colors of the 22nd Regiment — Staff College — Advanced Thinkers — Letter from Colonel Strange — Esau and Jacob — Poems and Santa Maura — Birth of his Son Grenville — Second Visit to Yorkshire — Correspondence with Mr. HuUah on Songs — In Yorkshire — Grounds of Faith — Letters on Miracles to Sir William Cope — A Happy Christmas . 77 CHAPTER XVIII 1859. Aged 40 Sanitary Work — First Sermon at Buckingham Palace — Queen's Chaplaincy — First Visit to Windsor — Letter to an Atheist — To Artists — Charles Bennett, Frederick Shields — Ladies' Sanitary Association — Exhausted Brain — Pollution of Rivers — The Eternity of Mar- riage 98 CHAPTER XIX 1860-1862. Aged 41-43 Professorship of Modem History — Death of his Father and of Mrs. Anthony Froude — Planting the Church- yard — Visit to Ireland — First Salmon Killed — Wet Summer — Sermon on Weather — On Prayer — Letter from Sir Charles Lyell — Residence in Cambridge — In- augural Lecture in the Senate House — Reminiscences of an Undergraduate — Lectures to the Prince of Wales — Essays and Reviews — Children's Employment Com- mission — Death of the Prince Consort — " The Water Babies " — Installation Ode at Cambridge — Visit to Scotland — British Association — Lord Dundreary — Degradation Theory — American Lectures — The Pro- fessor and the Boats — Cotton Famine in Lancashire . 120 Contents vii CHAPTER XX 1863. Aged 44 Page Fellow of the Geological Society — Geology of Palestine and the Bible — Work at Cambridge — Wellington College Museum — Lecture at Wellington — Letter from Dr. Benson — Wonders of Science — Man and the Ape — Mocking Butterflies — A Chain of Special Provi- dences — Toads in Rocks — Prince of Wales's Wed- ding — D.C.L. Degree at Oxford — Bishop Colenso- Sermons on the Pentateuch 158 CHAPTER XXI 1864-1865. Aged 45-46 Illness — Controversy with Dr. Newman — Apologia — Jour- ney to the South of France — Biarritz — Pau — Nar- bonne — The Schoolboy's Sea — B^ziers — Pont du Card — Nismes — Avignon — University Sermons at Cambridge — Letter on the Trinity — On Subscription — Savonarola — The Literary World — Wesley and Oxford — Bewick's Autobiography — Visit of Queen Emma of the Sandwich Islands to Eversley and Wel- lington College — Death of King Leopold — Lines written at Windsor Castle 18 CHAPTER XXII 1866-1867. Aged 47-48 Cambridge — Death of Dr. Whewell — The American Pro- fessorship — Monotonous Life of the Country Laboring Class — Penny Readings — London Sermons — Strange Correspondents — Letters to Max Miiller — The Jews in Cornwall — Prussian War — The Meteor Shower — Society and Equality — The House o£ Lords — " Eraser's Magazine " — Darwinism — St. Andrews and British Association — Stammering .... viii Contents CHAPTER XXIII 1868. Aged 49 Pagb Attacks of the Press — Lectures on Sixteenth Century — Letters on Emigration — Newman's Dream of St. Ge- rontius — Military Education — Sandhurst — Comtism — On Crime and its Punishment — Parting with his Son — Letter from Rev. William Harrison — Theological Views — The Book Lover — Kingsley's Tolerance . 235 CHAPTER XXIV 1869-1870. Aged so-S' Work of the Year — Resignation of Professorship — Wo- men's Suffrage Question — Letters to Mr. Maurice and John Stuart Mill — Canonry of Chester — Social Science Meeting at Bristol — West Indian Voyage — Tropic Scenes — Return Home — Eversley a Changed Place — Flying Columns — Heath Fires — First Residence at Chester — Botanical Class — Field Lectures — Human Soot — Medical Education of Women— Franco-Prussian War — Wallace on Natural Selection .... 252 CHAPTER XXV 1871. Aged 52 Lecture at Sion College — Correspondence — Ideal Feudal- ism — Scientific Agriculture — Words of Condolence — Expeditions of the Chester Natural Science Society — Lectures on Town Geology — A Lump of Coal — The Race Week at Chester — Letters on Betting — Camp at Bramshill — Prince of Wales's Illness — Sermon on Loyalty and Sanitary Science — Lectures at Bideford, Woolwich, and Winchester 289 Contents ix CHAPTER XXVI 1872. Aged 53 Page Opening of Chester Cathedral Nave — Deaths of Mr. Mavjrice and Norman McLeod — Cathedral Stalls and Learned Leisure — Bishop Patteson — Notes on Modern Hymnology — Lecture at Birmingham and its Results — Lectures at Chester— Correspondence on the Athanasian Creed — On Disestablishment — A Poem . .322 CHAPTER XXVII 1873-1874. Aged 54-55 Harrow-on-the-Hill — Canonry of Westminster — Congratu- lations — Parting from Chester — Sermons in West- minster Abbey and at King's College — Voyage to America — Eastern Cities and Western Plains — Letter from John G. Whittier — Niagara — Salt Lake City — Yosemite Valley and Big Trees — San Francisco — Illness — Rocky Mountains and Colorado Springs — Last Poem — Return Home 341 CHAPTER XXVIII 1874-1875. Aged 55 Return from America — Work at Eversley — Illness at West- minster — New Anxiety — Last Sermons in the Abbey — Leaves the Cloisters for ever — Last Return to Eversley — The Valley of the Shadow of Death — Last Illness and Departure — Answered Prayer — His Burial — Funeral Sermons — Letters of Sympathy — The True and Perfect Knight — At the Grave — The Victory of Life over Death and Time 375 List of Illustrations VOLUME II Mrs. Kingsley Frontispiece Snowdon Toface page 23 From a rare engraving. " Glydderotherium " „ „ 32 Reproduction from a sketch by Tom Taylor, of a mammoth rock found on Snowdon. Eversley Church and Churchyard „ ,,123 Charles Kingsley. Age, 48 „ „ 230 Reproduced from the' Reich portrait. Frederick Denison Maurice „ „ 323 *„* Thanks are due Mr. Maurice Kingsley for permission to reproduce a large number of the illustrations in this volume. CHAPTER XIV 1856 Aged 37 Winter at Farley Court — Letters to Mr. Bullar — Letter from a Sailor at Hong Kong — Trades Union Strikes — Preface to Tauler's Life — Fishing Poems AND Fishing Flies—To F. Maurice— Invitation to Snowdonia — Visit to North Wales — American Visitors. " I am very sorry for what you say about my not writing any- thing startling ; because it shows that . you are beginning to judge me in part upon the reports of others. There are some people whom I must startle, if I am to do any good. But to startle the majority of good and sensible men, or to startle, so as to disgust at once a majority of any sort, are things which I most earnestly should wish to avoid. At the same time, I do strongly object on principle to the use of that glozing, unnatural, and silly language (for so it is in us now), which men use one after another till it becomes as worn as one of the old shillings." Dr. Arnold. THE winter of 1856, spent at Farley Court, a lovely spot in Swallowfield parish, adjoin- ing to and overlooking Eversley, was a bright and happy one. The long rest in Devonshire had told on him, and now living on high ground, and in a dry house, acted as a tonic to him as well as to his family, and infused fresh life into his preach- ing and his parish work. The old incubus of the Crimean War, after two years' pressure, was re- moved, and the new one of the Indian Mutiny, which weighed even more heavily upon him from VOL. II. — I 2 Charles Kingsley the thought of the sufferings of women and chil- dren, was as yet in the future, and his heart re- bounded again. The formation of the camp at Aldershot created fresh interests for him at this time and during his remaining years, by bringing a new element into his congregation at Eversley, and giving him the friendship of many military men. In July he was at Aldershot on the mem- orable occasion of the Queen's first inspection of the remnant of her Crimean army, and saw the march-past of the different regiments before her Majesty, a sight never to be forgotten. In his night-schools, which were well attended, he gave lectures on mines, shells, and other subjects con- nected with Natural History, illustrated with large drawings of his own. His sermons were most powerful — among them one on Ghosts, the appearance of a ghost in the neighborhood (which he stalked down and found, as he expected, to be a white deer escaped from Calverly Park), having greatly alarmed his parishioners. ^ He gave various 1 Another ghostly visitor puzzled him this winter. On the occasion of a public dinner given to an officer of The Guards on his return from the Crimean War, Mr. Kingsley allowed his son to be present to hear the first of the speeches and then ride back in the dusk to Farley Court on his pony alone. Halfway between the park gate and the house, " Something" passed over his head which thoroughly frightened the boy, who galloped to the stables shouting that he had seen a ghost, and bringing the coachman and others rushing out.