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Biographical Study of A。 W。 Kinglake
by Rev。 W。 Tcikwell
PREFACE
IT is just eleven years since Kinglake passed away察and his life has not yet been separately memorialized。 A few years more察and the personal side of him would be irrecoverable察though by personality察no less than by authorship察he made his contemporary mark。 When a tomb has been closed for centuries察the effaced lineaments of its tenant can be re´coloured only by the idealizing hand of genius察as Scott drew Claverhouse察and Carlyle drew Cromwell。 But察to the biographer of the lately dead察men have a right to say察as Saul said to the Witch of Endor察 Call up Samuel ─ In your study of a life so recent as Kinglake's察give us察if you choose察some critical synopsis of his monumental writings察some salvage from his ephemeral and scattered papers察trace so much of his youthful training as shaped the development of his character察
depict察with wise restraint察his political and public life此but also察and above all察re´clothe him ;in his habit as he lived察─as friends and associates knew him察recover his traits of voice and manner察his conversational wit or wisdom察epigram or paradox察his explosions of sarcasm and his eccentricities of reserve察his words of winningness and acts of kindness此and察since one half of his life was social察introduce us to the companions who shared his lighter hour and evoked his finer fancies察take us to the Athenaeum ;Corner察─or to Holland House察and flash on us at least a glimpse of the brilliant men and women who formed the setting to his sparkle察 DIC IN AMICITIAM COEANT ET FOEDERA JUNGANT。;
This I have endeavoured to do察with such aid as I could command from his few remaining contemporaries。 His letters to his family were destroyed by his own desire察on those written to Madame Novikoff no such embargo was laid察nor does she believe that it was intended。 I have used these sparingly察and all extracts from them have been subjected to her censorship。 If the result is not Attic in salt察it is at any rate Roman in brevity。 I send it forth with John Bunyan's homely aspiration
And may its buyer have no cause to say察His money is but lost or thrown away。
CHAPTER I ´ EARLY YEARS
THE fourth decade of the deceased century dawned on a procession of Oriental pilgrims察variously qualified or disqualified to hold the gorgeous East in fee察who察with BAKSHISH in their purses察a theory in their brains察an unfilled diary´book in their portmanteaus察 sought out the Holy Land察the Sinai peninsula察the valley of the Nile察sometimes even Armenia and the Monte Santo察and returned home to emit their illustrated and mapped octavos。 We have the type delineated admiringly in Miss Yonge's ;Heartsease察─。1 bitterly in Miss Skene's ;Use and Abuse察─facetiously in the Clarence Bulbul of ;Our Street。; ;Hang it has not everybody written an Eastern book拭 I should like to meet anybody in society now who has not been up to the Second Cataract。 My Lord Castleroyal has done one ´ an honest one察my Lord Youngent another ´ an amusing one察my Lord Woolsey another ´ a pious one察there is the 'Cutlet and the Cabob' ´ a sentimental one察Timbuctoothen ´ a humorous one。; Lord Carlisle's honesty察Lord Nugent's fun察Lord Lindsay's piety察failed to float their books。 Miss Martineau察clear察frank察unemotional Curzon察 fuddling the Levantine monks with rosoglio that he might fleece them of their treasured hereditary manuscripts察even Eliot Warburton's power察colouring察play of fancy察have yielded to the mobility of Time。 Two alone out of the gallant company maintain their vogue to´day此Stanley's ;Sinai and Palestine察─as a Fifth Gospel察an inspired Scripture Gazetteer察and ;Eothen察─as a literary gem of purest ray serene。
In 1898 a reprint of the first edition was given to the public察 prefaced by a brief eulogium of the book and a slight notice of the author。 It brought to the writer of the ;Introduction; not only kind and indulgent criticism察but valuable corrections察fresh facts察clues to further knowledge。 These last have been carefully followed out。 The unwary statement that Kinglake never spoke after his first failure in the House has been atoned by a careful study of all his speeches in and out of Parliament。 His reviews in the ;Quarterly; and elsewhere have been noted察impressions of his manner and appearance at different periods of his life have been recovered from coaeval acquaintances察his friend Hayward's Letters察 the numerous allusions in Lord Houghton's Life察Mrs。 Crosse's lively chapters in ;Red Letter Days of my Life察─Lady Gregory's interesting recollections of the Athenaeum Club in Blackwood of December察1895察the somewhat slender notice in the ;Dictionary of National Biography察─have all been carefully digested。 From these察 and察as will be seen察from other sources察the present Memoir has been compiled察an endeavour ´ SERA TAMEN ´ to lay before the countless readers and admirers of his books a fairly adequate appreciation察hitherto unattempted察of their author。
I have to acknowledge the great kindness of Canon William Warburton察who examined his brother Eliot's diaries on my behalf察 obtained information from Dean Boyle and Sir M。 Grant Duff察cleared up for me not a few obscure allusions in the ;Eothen; pages。 My highly valued friend察Mrs。 Hamilton Kinglake察of Taunton察his sister´in´law察last surviving relative of his own generation察has helped me with facts which no one else could have recalled。 To Mr。 Estcott察his old acquaintance and Somersetshire neighbour察I am indebted for recollections manifold and interesting察but above all I tender thanks to Madame Novikoff察his intimate associate and correspondent during the last twenty years of his life察who has supplemented her brilliant sketch of him in ;La Nouvelle Revue; of 1896 by oral and written information lavish in quantity and of paramount biographical value。 Kinglake's external life察his literary and political career察his speeches察and the more fugitive productions of his pen察were recoverable from public sources察but his personal and private side察as it showed itself to the few close intimates who still survive察must have remained to myself and others meagre察superficial察disappointing察without Madame Novikoff's unreserved and sympathetic confidence。
Alexander William Kinglake was descended from an old Scottish stock察the Kinlochs察who migrated to England with King James察and whose name was Anglicized into Kinglake。 Later on we find them settled on a considerable estate of their own at Saltmoor察near Borobridge察whence towards the close of the eighteenth century two brothers察moving southward察made their home in Taunton ´ Robert as a physician察William as a solicitor and banker。 Both were of high repute察both begat famous sons。 From Robert sprang the eminent Parliamentary lawyer察Serjeant John Kinglake察at one time a contemporary with Cockburn and Crowder on the Western Circuit察and William Chapman Kinglake察who while at Trinity察Cambridge察won the Latin verse prize察 Salix Babylonica察─the English verse prizes on ;Byzantium; and the ;Taking of Jerusalem察─in 1830 and 1832。 Of William's sons the eldest was Alexander William察author of ;Eothen察─the youngest Hamilton察for many years one of the most distinguished physicians in the West of England。 ;Eothen察─as he came to be called察was born at Taunton on the 5th August察1809察at a house called ;The Lawn。; His father察a sturdy Whig察died at the age of ninety through injuries received in the hustings crowd of a contested election。 His mother belonged to an old Somersetshire family察the Woodfordes of Castle Cary。 She察too察lived to a great age察a slight察neat figure in dainty dress察full of antique charm and grace。 As a girl she had known Lady Hester Stanhope察who lived with her grandmother察Lady Chatham察at Burton Pynsent察her own father察Dr。 Thomas Woodforde察being Lady Chatham's medical attendant。 2 The future prophetess of the Lebanon was then a wild girl察scouring the countryside on bare´backed horses察she showed great kindness to Mary Woodforde察afterwards Kinglake's mother。 It was as his mother's son that she received him long afterwards at Djoun。 To his mother Kinglake was passionately attached察owed to her察as he tells us in ;Eothen察─his home in the saddle and his love for Homer。 A tradition is preserved in the family that on the day of her funeral察at a churchyard five miles away察he was missed from the household group reassembled in the mourning home察he was found to have ordered his horse察and galloped back in the darkness to his mother's grave。 Forty years later he writes to Alexander Knox此 The death of a mother has an almost magical power of recalling the home of one's childhood察and the almost separate world that rests upon affection。; Of his two sisters察one was well read and agreeably talkative察noted by Thackeray as the cleverest woman he had ever met察the other察Mrs。 Acton察was a delightful old ESPRIT FORT察as I knew her in the sixties察 pagan察I regret to say察─but not a little resembling her brother in the point and manner of her wit。