Dedicated TO THE BELOVED MEMORY OF A RIGHTEOUS MAN WHO LOVED GOD AND TRUTH ABOVE ALL THINGS. A MAN OF UNTARNISHED HONOUR LOYAL AND CHIVALROUS-GENTLE AND STRONG MODEST AND HUMBLE-TENDER AND TRUE PITIFUL TO THE WEAK-YEARNING AFTER THE ERRING- YET MOST STERN TOWARDS HIMSELF WHO BEING ANGRY, YET SINNED NOT. WHOSE HIGHEST VIRTUES WERE KNOWN ONLY TO HIS WIFE, HIS CHILDREN, HIS SERVANTS, AND THE POOR. WHO LIVED IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD HERE, AND PASSING THROUGH THE GRAVE AND GATE OF DEATH NOW LIVETH UNTO GOD FOR EVERMORE. PREFACE. IN bringing out these Volumes, thanks are due and gratefully offered to all who have generously given their help to the work; to the many known and unknown Correspondents who have treasured and lent the letters now first made public;-to the Publishers who have allowed quotations to be made from Mr. Kingsley's published works;-to the Artists, especially Sheldon Williams, Esq., and Frank Mason Good, Esq., of Hartley Wintney, whose sketches and photographs have been kindly given for the Illustrations of the book; but above all to the friends who have so eloquently borne witness to his character and genius. These written testimonies to their father's worth are a rich inheritance to his children, and God only knows the countless unwritten ones, of souls rescued from doubt, darkness, error, and sin-of work done, the worth of which can never be calculated upon earth-of seed sown which has borne, and will still bear fruit for years, perhaps for generations to come, when the name of CHARLES KINGSLEY is forgotten, while his unconscious influence will endure treasured up in the eternal world, where nothing really good or great can be lost or pass away, to be revealed at that Day when God's Book shall be opened and the thoughts of all hearts be made known. BYFLEET, October, 1876. F. E. K. NOTE TO SECOND EDITION. IN bringing out a Second Edition of this book, I wish to offer heartfelt thanks to Mr. Henry S. King for the loyalty to my husband's meinory, and the delicate consideration for those whom he left, which have marked his undertaking of the work in the first place, and the manner in which he has carried it through the Press. I trust he will allow me to take this opportunity of expressing my deep obligation to him. F. E. K. BYFLEET, Dec. 22, 1876. CONTENTS. BIRTH AND PARENTAGE-INHERITED TALENTS-REMOVAL FROM DEVON- SHIRE TO BURTON-ON-TREnt-Clifton-BARNACK AND ITS TRA- PAGE LIFE AT CLOVELLY-SCHOOL LIFE AT CLIFTON-BRISTOL RIOTS-THEIR EFFECT ON HIS MIND-HELSTON-EARLY FRIENDSHIPS-LETTERS LIFE AT CAMBRIDGE-VISIT TO OXFORDSHIRE-UNDERGRADUATE DAYS- DECIDES TO TAKE ORDERS-TAKES HIS DEGREE-CORRESPONDENCE-- LETTERS FROM REV. E. CAMPBELL AND OTHER CAMBRIDGE FRIENDS 41 |