IN MEMORIAM. xix. 



man's life should be both for this world and the next. A sound 

 mind in a sound body and sufficient food for both ; the result, a 

 long life of physical and mental happiness, and a legacy to 

 posterity from his mind's work, the value of which will be the 

 more felt the more it is used by those to whom it is bequeathed. 

 If the recognition of himself by great men or great minds were an 

 ambition with Mr. BARNES (I am not aware that it was, I think 

 it was not) he did obtain a share of that in the visits paid him while 

 Rector of Came by such men as Tennyson, Allingham, Prince Lucien 

 Bonaparte, Max Miiller, Sir Henry Taylor, Coventry Patmore, and 

 others. 



With regard to Mr. BARNES' family it is enough to say here 

 that he had the great misfortune to lose his wife comparatively 

 early in life, and has left four daughters and one son (Rev. William 

 Miles Barnes, of Monckton Rectory) surviving him, another, a 

 younger son, having died early. Miss Laura Barnes, the eldest 

 daughter, is unmarried; the others are married. Two are settled in 

 Italy, and from the talented pen of one of them, Lucy Barnes (Mrs. 

 Baxter), we hope shortly to have a biography of our old friend such 

 as none but a daughter so well qualified could possibly furnish. 

 Some have questioned whether Mr. BARNES' career can be pointed 

 to as a successful one ; of course that depends on what success in 

 life is taken to mean. If I am right in the remarks I have made 

 above, he must be considered to have been most successful. 

 Some have pointed to his scholastic work and said it is not there 

 that Mr. BARNES succeeded ; others have said his literary works, 

 excepting the Poems in Dorset Dialect, will not live, and 

 most are dead already, and that his clerical life was a mere accident. 

 Well ! I think these critics are all wrong. I am very confident 

 that even in these separate parts of his career Mr. BARNES might, 

 were it worth while, be shewn to have amply succeeded. I will 

 only mention one fact in regard to his school work, and that is 

 that he had the faculty of interesting his scholars, and not only 

 of causing them to understand but to love what he taught. I can 

 testify to this from my own experience as his pupil, and I feel 



