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more fully. We had no opportunity of using your 

 kind introduction at St. Thomas'. 



The West Indies are a neglected Paradise. What 

 fools human beings are specially English ! 



Ever yours, 



C. KINQSLEY. 



P.S. I have, I hope, opened a regular trail from 

 the West Indies to the Museum. 



Kingsley was for many years a close friend and a 

 frequent, but illegible, correspondent of Newton, who 

 suggested to him the references to the Great Auk in 

 "Water Babies." The following characteristic letter 

 was with difficulty deciphered : 



Eversley Rectory, 



June 4, 1867. 



MY DEAR NEWTON, 



Your bird books are delightful. Gladly 

 would I give up History to think of nothing but dicky 

 birds : but it must not be yet. 



Some day, ere I grow too old to think, I trust to be 

 able to throw away all pursuits save Natural History, 

 and die with my mind full of God's facts instead of 

 man's lies. 



Yours ever, 



C. KINGSLEY. 



On the back of this letter Newton wrote : 



Froude informs the Scottish youth 

 That parsons have no care for truth. 

 The Reverend Canon Kingsley cries 

 That history is a pack of lies. 



What cause for judgment so malign ? 



A brief reflexion solves the mystery. 

 For Froude thinks Kingsley a divine, 



And Kingsley goes to Froude for history.* 



* These verses are quoted in Froude's obituary notice in the Times 

 of October 22, 1894, and are there attributed to "the present Bishop of 

 Oxford [Stubbs]." 



