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Summer in Styria Rustic Manners II. The Drama Private The- 

 atricalsIll. Sanitary Associations The Phonograph IV. Fleem- 

 ing's Acquaintance with a Student His late Maturity of Mind 

 Religion and Morality His Love of Heroism Taste in Literature 

 V. His Talk His late Popularity Letter from M. Trelat. . . cxiv 



CHAPTER VII. 



1875-1885. 



Mrs. Jenkin's Illness Captain Jenkin The Golden Wedding Death of 

 Uncle John Death of Mr. and Mrs. Austin Illness and Death of 

 the Captain Death of Mrs. Jenkin Effect on Fleeming Telpher- 

 age The End , cxlv 



APPENDIX. 



I. Note on the Contributions of Fleeming Jenkin to Electrical and 



Engineering Science : by SIE WILLIAM THOMSON, F.R.S., LL.D. . civ 



II. Note on the work of Fleeming Jenkin in connect ion with Sanitary 



Reform : by L-r.-CoL. ALEXANDER FERGUSSON clix 



PAPERS BY FLEEMING JENKIN. 



PREFATORY NOTE : by Sidney Coivin, M.A clxxiii 



LITERATURE AND DRAMA: 



THE 'AGAMEMNON' AND ' TRACKING' 3 



ON THE ANTIQUE GREEK DRESS FOR WOMEN .... 35 



MRS. SIDDONS AS LADY MACBETH 45 



MRS. SIDDONS AS QUEEN KATHARINE, MRS. BEVERLEY, AND LADY 



RANDOLPH 67 



TALMA ON THE ACTOR'S ART . 87 



ARTIST AND CRITIC 93 



GRISELDA . . . . . 100 



ON RHYTHM IN ENGLISH VERSE 149 



A FRAGMENT ON GEORGE ELIOT . . . . * . .171 



SPECULATIVE SCIENCE: 



LUCRETIUS AND THE ATOMIC THEORY 177 



DARWIN AND THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES 215 



A FRAGMENT ON TRUTH . 2G4 



