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another point of view. The tour had yielded much 

 personal enjoyment (for my father had scarcely been 

 out of England before), and had added considerably to 

 his stock of bodily health ; and he had also accumulated 

 a good deal of matter which afterwards afforded the 

 basis of many magazine articles. But, regarded as a 

 business undertaking, which in the main it was, the 

 tour had proved but a very qualified success, and the 

 expectations with which he started had by no means 

 been fulfilled. 



Of course by the time that he arrived at Liverpool 

 the English season was over; and save for three 

 lectures at Yarlet Hall, near Stafford, towards the end 

 of May, and five at a small boys' school in Upper 

 Norwood, given at intervals during the summer term, 

 lecturing ceased until the beginning of the season of 

 1884-85. 



