The Washington times., 1901-12-29
CHARLES KINesLEY's WORKS.
4 New Edition, with Introductians
by Maurice IxingxIcy.

readers who appreciate not only his great
talent as writer. but the courageous.
manly. and successful fight that he made
for clean living and justice to the poor
Of England, will be especially interested
in the new Chester edition OF his novels
and poems. with introductions by Maurice
Kingsley. Extracts from these introduce
tioas are as follows, some being taken
from one book and some from another:
1T is difficult to define Charles Kings
iey's exact position in the field os liter
ature. on account of his versatility: and
perhaps Prof. Max Muller has best
summed up that authors life work in n
preface written to The Roman and the
Teuton, q series OF historical lectures
delivered by Kingsley before the under
! graduates of Cambridge, in which he
speaks of the young curate and tho
Saints Tragedy; the chartist parson and
| Alton Locke; the happy poet and the
Sands OF Dee; the brilliant novel writer
| and Hypatia and Westward He; the
/ Rector Of Eversley and his Village Ser
! mons; the beloved professor at Cambridge.
the busy canon at Chester. the powerful
preacher in Westminster Abbey. One
thought of him by the Berkshire chalk
streams and en- the Devonshiro coast.
watching the beauty and wisdom Of
| nature. reading her solemn lessons
| chuckling. too, over her inimitable fun.
| One saw him in town alleys. preaching the
| gospel Of gCdliness and cleanliness while
| smoking his pipe with soldiers and
| navvies. One heard him in drawing
| rooms. listened to with patient silence.
| till one of his vigorous or quaint speeches
bounded forth never to be forgotten. How
children delighted in him! How young.
wild men believed in him. and obeyed
I him, tool How women were captivated
( by his cniyalry. older men by his genuine
humility ard sympathy! OF all
! this the world knew little-yet few men
excited wider or stronger synpathies.'
'He never aspired to be a great his
toriaB, although his lectures while pro-
were more largely attended than those Of
other professors. In his inaugural ad-
dress may he found these words: THESE
lectures Will not be, in the popular sense.
history at all. But / beg you to bear in
mind that l am not here to teach you
history. No man can do that. am here
to teach yCu how to teach yourselves his
tory
His theology was largely his own. as
one OF the original leaders, with Maurice
and Arnold, of what is now known as the
Bread Church school. Fifty years ago
there was no mean between narrow Cal
yinism md the Church of Rome. Every
advancing step Of science seemed TO many
a direct blow at the Church; and every
advance toward a liberal Interpretation
OF the ritual reused the cry of No Pop
cry, But Kingsley was able 10 preach
liberalism in theology. and also accept
science without incliniEg TO atheism"
Having tramred and fshed over all
Devonshire, some fine descriptions OF that
beautiful and famous English county
might be expected from Charles Kings
lay's pen, interspeTsed as they are with
interesting folklore, quaint manners and
customs. archaic words and provincial
isms long since forgotten: but it is diff
fcult to believe that the tropic scenes in
Westward HO,' could be written by one
who had never seen CT did not know the
tropics well Yet it was not till sixteen
years after the book was written that the
author. in 1870. realized the dream of his
life-his first sight of the tropics The
accuracy and beauty Of word painting of
tropical flora and fauna in the chapters
describing the two years wanderfngs of
Amyas and his companions in search of
the Golden City of Manoa through Vene-
zuelan. Brazilian, and Peruvian forests
are unsurpassed. perhaps, by any other
English writer
Realizing the storm it would create he
must have been brave man, in 1915 to
publish such ballad as the 'POacher's
Widow (now known as the Bad Squirrel
Of Yeast
You have sold the laboriag man. squire.
Body and soul TO shame,
To pay. for your seat in the House. squire,
And to pay for the feed of your gam.
When your youngest. the meaIy-rnouthcd rector.
Lets yonr soul rot asleep 70 the grave
You viii find in your God the protector
oi the freeman you faucicd your slave.
These stanzas were hardly the kind to
foster love between their author and the
landlords and the ballad reused the fury
or the country gentry against Charles
Kingsley. as it did Squire Lavington os
the novel against Paul Tregarya."
Charles Kingsley died at the early age
OF ffty-six; and it is the opinion of those
who knew him well that the direct cause |
Of his death-being man OF a naturally |
magnificent physique-may be traced not |
to the large amount of actual work he |
crowded into thirty-fye years OF active |
life, but to the effect OF the repeated at |
tacks on the morality OF his teachings, |
religious and social.
Deliberate Misrepresentation cut him |
to the quick. and few mems lives and |
opinions were 50 studiously misrepre- |
scented.
However. he lived to see the landowners |
OF England become the Lord Mincham-
steads Of Yeast, interesting themselves in |
model cottages and schools; and also the
change Of the game laws. and many other |
measures for the welfare of the laboring |
classes in England not dreamed Of in /
Squire Lavington's philosophy"
"Iererring to the members. we find that |
sanitary reform was really the keynote to |
Kingsleys life and teachings His most |
powerful sermons. essays and lectures
are all on this subject 1t runs through |
all his published works: even in his |
charming chlds hook-'The Water Ba- |
bes and Madam How and Lady Why
cleanliness is next to godliness' forms
his text. Nor were his ideas purely the
oretical. as is the case with so many |
would-be reformers. by his practical rep
resentations to the Prime Minister, Lord
Palmerston, at the beginning of the
cholera outbreak. many of the cumbrous
workings of 'Bum5le-down' in cities were
abolished. and the board Of health was
put on n practical basis. saving thereby
thousands OF lives"
Lorraine, his last poem. was written
when desperately i'll at Colorado SPRINGS
in 1874. Whether the story is authentic
or imaginary is unknown. The meaning
Of the refrain. 'Barum,' 'Barum,' 'Baree,'
is also unknown.
ITO a certain extent Il corresponds to
the hOofbeais Of a galloping horse; bu.
the termination 'Baree' indicates that
the horse is stopped suddenly in his gal
lop. Possibly however, the key lies In
bo word sR1r1Tu1 which by o cOf,- I