Transcribed from the 1902 Edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org [Picture: Kinglake in the late Fifties] A. W. KINGLAKE A BIOGRAPHICAL AND LITERARY STUDY BY REV. W. TUCKWELL AUTHOR OF “TONGUES IN TREES,” “WINCHESTER FIFTY YEARS AGO,” “REMINISCENCES OF OXFORD,” ETC. * * * * * ἁμέραι δ᾿ ἐπίλοιποι μάρτυρες σοφώτατρο [Picture: Decorative graphic] LONDON GEORGE BELL AND SONS, 1902 * * * * * CHISWICK PRESS: CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO. TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON. * * * * * PREFACE It is just eleven years since Kinglake passed away, and his life has not yet been separately memorialized. A few years more, and the personal side of him would be irrecoverable, though by personality, no less than by authorship, he made his contemporary mark. When a tomb has been closed for centuries, the effaced lineaments of its tenant can be re-coloured only by the idealizing hand of genius, as Scott drew Claverhouse, and Carlyle drew Cromwell. But, to the biographer of the lately dead, men have a right to say, as Saul said to the Witch of Endor, “Call up Samuel!” In your study of a life so recent as Kinglake’s, give us, if you choose, some critical synopsis of his monumental writings, some salvage from his ephemeral and scattered papers; trace so much of his youthful training as shaped the development of his character; depict, with wise restraint, his political and public life: but also, and above all, re-clothe him “in his habit as he lived,” as friends and associates knew him; recover his traits of voice and manner, his conversational wit or wisdom, epigram or paradox, his explosions of sarcasm and his eccentricities of reserve, his words of winningness and acts of kindness: and, since one half of his life was social, introduce us to the companions who shared his lighter hour and evoked his finer fancies; take us to the Athenæum “Corner,” or to Holland House, and flash on us at least a glimpse of the brilliant men and women who formed the setting to his sparkle; “_dic in amicitiam coeant et foedera jungant_.”