Your heavy private loss is then coupled in my view with a public calamity; but while I can rejoice in your retrospect of his labour, I also trust it may please God in His wisdom to raise up others to fill up his place and carry forward his work. May you enjoy the abundance of the Divine consolations in proportion to your great need. Believe me, most truly yours, W. E. GLADSTONE. Not much remains to be said. The life here described would seem to have been cut short, but, as was said by a friend, 'in a short time he fulfilled a long time,' 1 and few have won for themselves more love in the home and beyond it. He left no enemy, and those who loved him and to whom his loss has left a blank and a desolation of which it is not well to speak, can only be thankful for what he was and for what he is. Not indeed that one would forget those words of Dean Church quoted in the beautiful preface to his Life: 2 'I often have a kind of waking dream: up one road, the image of a man decked and adorned as if for a triumph, carried up by rejoicing and exulting friends, who praise his goodness and achievements; and, on the other road, turned back to back to it, there is the very man himself, in sordid and squalid apparel, surrounded not by friends but by ministers of justice, and going on, while his friends are exulting, to his certain and perhaps awful judgment. That vision rises when I hear, not just and conscientious endeavours to make out a man's character, but when 1 Wisdom, iv. 13. 2 Preface to Life and Letters of Dean Church, p. xxiv. I hear the loose things that are said-often in kindness and love-of those beyond the grave.' But there have been men and women who have lifted the minds and the hearts of those who knew and loved them to increasing love for goodness, to increasing loftiness of ideal, and for these, whom now no praise can hurt, no blame can wound, one can but lift one's heart in ever growing thankfulness for the gifts and graces which made them what they were, and which will grow and increase in them until the Perfect Day. Beati mundo corde, quoniam ipsi Deum videbunt. May 23, 1895. INDEX ACTON, Lord, 307 Allman, Professor, 156, 157 BALFOUR, Rt. Hon. A. J., 148 Mr. Francis, 15, 154 British Association, 65, 73 Brunton, Dr. Lauder, 15, 62, 154, 347 Burney prize, won by G. J. Romanes, Butcher, Professor, 155, 203, 283, 295 CAIRD, Professor (now Master of Cats, sense of direction in, 112 Children, poem to, 145 Church, Dean, 163, 164, 234, 371, Churchill, Mr., 213 Clarke, Rev. R., S.J., 197 Compton, Earl and Countess, 290, 294, Correvon, Professor, 185, 216, 217 Croonian Lectures, 16, 97 Curteis, Canon, 158 DARWIN, Charles, first introduction to, - first meeting with, 14 Darwin, Charles, letters from, 33, 35, - letters to, 21, 22, 30, 34, 36, 41, 44, quoted, 206, 210, 215, 225, 226, - memorial volume, 138 Mr. F., 8, 51, 52, 56, 58, 60, 81, Darwin and after Darwin, 186, 298 Dyer, Mr. Thiselton-, 93, 209, 216, 217, EIMER, Dr., 46, 228, 312 Evidences of Organic Evolution, lec- Ewart, Professor Cossar, 15, 97, 104, FABRE, M., 116, 118, 206 Flower, Sir W., 76, 328 Foster, Dr. Michael, 8, 13, 32, 39, 53 GALTON, Mr. Francis, 56, 168, 169, Gill, Mr. and Mrs., 290 Gladstone, Rt. Hon. W. E., 169, 235, Gore, Rev. C., 83, 289, 295, 328, 337, Gosse, Mr. E. W., 234, 295 Graham, Mr. H. M., M.P., 290, 295 Gulick, Rev. J., 221, 222, 237, 242, 269 Liddon, Rev. Dr., 148, 150, 168, 272, Lincoln, Bishop of, 379 Lockyer, Mr. Norman, 131, 148, 154 MCKENDRICK, Professor, 96 Meldola, Professor, 93 Mivart, Professor St. George, 104 Morgan, Professor Lloyd C., 337 REDE LECTURE, 160 Romanes, Rev. Dr., 1, 2 Major R., 96 - Mr., 1, 9, 97 Sully, Mr., 101, 294 TAIT, LAWSON, 22 Talbot, Dr., 337 Miss C. E., letters to, 67, 134, 149, Taylor, Canon Isaac, 312, 317 Miss Georgina, 71 Mrs. G. J., letters to, 94, 159, 170, Teesdale, Mr. J. M., 103, 104, 134 Thompson, Sir W. (Lord Kelvin), 95 Mr. James, letters to, 12, 158, 197, Turner, George, 170, 276 Schäfer, Professor, letters to, 23, 26, Wallace, Mr., 57, 93, 179, 214, 215, |