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him than we did of the Prince of Wales and his 

 retinue of lords and dukes." Certainly the people 

 of the States gave him an enthusiastic welcome ; his 

 writings had made him known far and wide ; as the 

 manager of the Californian department at the Phila- 

 delphia Exhibition told him, the very miners of 

 California read his books over their camp fires ; and 

 his visit was so far like a royal progress, that unless 

 he entered a city disguised under the name of Jones 

 or Smith, he was liable not merely to be interviewed, 

 but to be called upon to " address a few words " to 

 the citizens. 



Leaving their family under the hospitable care of 

 Sir W. and Lady Armstrong at Cragside, my father 

 and mother started on July 27 on board the Germanic, 

 reaching New York on August 5. My father some- 

 times would refer, half- jestingly, to the trip as his 

 second honeymoon, when, for the first time in twenty 

 years, he and my mother set forth by themselves, 

 free from all family cares. And indeed, there was 

 the underlying resemblance that this too came at the 

 end of a period of struggle to attain, and marked the 

 beginning of a more settled period. His reception 

 in America may be said to emphasise his definite 

 establishment in the first rank of English thinkers. 

 It was a signal testimony to the wide extent of his 

 influence, hardly suspected, indeed, by himself; an 

 influence due above all to the fact that he did not 

 allow his studies to stand apart from the moving 

 problems of existence, but brought the new and 



