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

 atricals III. Sanitary Associations The Phonograph IV. Fleem- 

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

 Eeligion and Morality His Love of Heroism Taste in Literature 

 V. His Talk His late Popularity Letter from M. Tre"lat. . . 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.E.S., LL.D. . civ 



T.I. Note on the work of Fleeming Jenkin in connection with Sanitary 



Eeform : by LT.-COL. ALEXANDER FERGUSSON clix 



PAPERS BY FLEEMING JENKIN. 



PREFATORY NOTE : by Sidney Colvin, M.A clxxiii 



LITEEATUEE AND DEAMA: 



THE 'AGAMEMNON' AND * TRACHTNI^J ' 3 



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

 MRS. SIDDONS AS LADY MACBETH . . ... . . .45 



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



EANDOLPH 67 



TALMA ON THE ACTOR'S ART 87 



ARTIST AND CRITIC 93 



GRISELDA 100 



ON EHYTHM 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 . 264 



