162 MEMOIR OF FLEEMING JENKIN 



CHAPTER VI 



1869-1885 



Edinburgh Colleagues Farrago Vitce I. The Family 

 Circle Fleeming and his Sons Highland Life The 

 Cruise of the Steam Launch Summer in Styria Rustic 

 Manners II. The Drama Private Theatricals III. 

 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. 



THE remaining external incidents of Fleeming's 

 life, pleasures, honours, fresh interests, new friends, 

 are not such as will bear to be told at any length 

 or in the temporal order. And it is now time to 

 lay narration by, and to look at the man he was 

 and the life he lived, more largely. 



Edin- Edinburgh, which was thenceforth to be his 



home, is a metropolitan small town ; where college 

 professors and the lawyers of the Parliament House 

 give the tone, and persons of leisure, attracted by 

 educational advantages, make up much of the 

 bulk of society. Not, therefore, an unlettered 

 place, yet not pedantic, Edinburgh will compare 

 favourably with much larger cities. A hard and 



