The Fisherman—The Battle of Waterloo—The Mayor of Salisbury—the Mayor’s Son—The Market-place—The Circus—Boarding-School and Fun—A Diary CHAPTER II. THE BOY LECTURER 11 A Lecture on the Uses of Steam—Parliamentary Ambitions—King’s College—Politics in the Fifties—Cribbage and Cricket CAMBRIDGE CHAPTER III. THE TALL STUDENT 25 Peterhouse—Quoits and Billiards—Trinity Hall—A Fellowship—Lincoln’s Inn CHAPTER IV. A SET BACK 35 A Trip to France—Wiltshire French—A Discouragement WINNING BACK CHAPTER V. DARKNESS 43 A Shooting Accident—Blindness—Readjustment CHAPTER VI. HAPPINESS 54 The clear-sighted Man—A Scot’s Accent—Mountain Climbing—Skating—Riding, etc. CHAPTER VII. DISTRACTION 63 Fishing—In the House of Commons—Need for Distraction—What Helen Keller thinks—Sir Francis Campbell—Leap Frog—Despair and Cheer—Paupers and Political Economy CAMBRIDGE AGAIN CHAPTER VIII. THE PROBLEM OF THE POOR 75 A Prime Object—Lincoln—Leslie Stephen—Daily Life at Cambridge—Deepening interest in Social Questions CHAPTER IX. THE GOOD SAMARITAN 84 ‘Ask Fawcett’—The Ancient Mariners and the Diplomat—Christmas Exceedings—Fawcett as Host—A Bore Foiled—The British Association CHAPTER X. THE YOUNG ECONOMIST 94 Championing Darwin—Darwin at Down—Salisbury gossip—Meeting Mill—Fawcett for Lincoln and the Union—John Bright’s Dog—Chair of Political Economy THE PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL ECONOMY CHAPTER XI. A PROGRAMME OF HELPFULNESS 111 Triumphing over Blindness—The Professor’s Audience—Free Trade and Protection—The Luxury of Light—The Malady of Poverty CHAPTER XII. THE SCHOOLS OF THE POOR 119 Need of non-secular Education—Charity and Pauperism—Friendship with Working-Men—The Voice that Linked CHAPTER XIII. THE NEW M.P. AND THE CLUB 127 Thackeray and the Reform Club—The Popular M.P.—The Assassination of Lincoln—Marriage CHAPTER XIV. THE WOMAN AND THE VOTE 135 The Home in London—Sympathy with Woman Suffrage—The Blind Gardener—Clubs—Hatred of Flunkeyism THE NEW M.P. CHAPTER XV. BLIND SUPERSTITIONS 143 Speech before the British Association—Mill again—Bright and Lord Brougham—The Mythical Committee Room—Defeat at Southwark CHAPTER XVI. PURE POLITICS 151