8 Concerning Kings leys m General \ 



Kingsley, wearied by the splendid fight he was 

 fighting in England, thought lovingly on the lands 

 of which his brother George wrote to him ; while 

 all the honours Charles Kingsley won gave to George 

 Kingsley, away in the wild regions of the world, a 

 pleasure greater even than they brought to their 

 recipient. Not that envy of any man could come 

 into George Kingsley's heart, unless it were the man 

 who had an extra good chance of being killed by a 

 grizzly bear of superior size, or who had caught an 

 extra-sized salmon. 



I now turn from the inter-relationship in feeling 

 between the brothers, and attempt to tell you what 

 manner of man George Kingsley was, and what 

 manner of life he led. 



No one who ever knew George Kingsley, though 

 it were only as a mere casual acquaintance, is likely 

 to forget him ; for in his character there were 

 united many qualities which are very rarely found 

 together in the same individual. They are indeed 

 sometimes regarded as being positively incompatible 

 with each other. And this strange, almost bizarre, 

 ' many mindedness,' together with a delicate tact, a 

 great power of expression, and a quick insight into 

 the thoughts of others, made him, on the one hand, 

 seem perfectly at home in whatever phase of society 

 he might happen to be, yet always distinguished 

 him, on the other, from those with whom he was at 

 any time associated. There was something wonder- 

 fully attractive even in the appearance of this lithe, 



