and Huxley being a man was making a heroic struggle LITTLE 

 to be what the young woman most wished. Love sup- JOURNEYS 

 plies an ideal and that is the very best thing love 

 does, with possibly an exception or two. 

 So behold a ship's surgeon in London, full-fledged, re- 

 fusing offers of position, and even declining to take a 

 choice of ships, for such is the perversity of things 

 animate and inanimate, that when we do not want 

 things, fate brings them on silver platters and begs us 

 to accept. We win by indifference as much as by desire. 

 Q"I have declined to ship on board the 'Cormorant' 

 as head surgeon, and have applied to the University 

 of Toronto for a position as Professor of Natural His- 

 tory." 



And so America had Huxley flung at her head: and 

 Toronto considered, and the Canadians sat on the 

 case, and after considerable correspondence, the vacant 

 chair was given to Professor Baldini of the Whitby 

 Ladies College. It was a close call for Canada! Huxley 

 had imagined that the new world offered special ad- 

 vantages to a rising young person of scientific bent, 

 but now he secured a marriage license and settled down 

 as lecturer at the School of Mines. A little later he 

 began to teach at the Royal College of Surgeons ; with 

 which institution he was to be connected the rest of 

 his life, and fill almost any chair that happened to be 

 vacant. 



From his twenty-seventh year Huxley never had to 

 look for work. He was known as a writer of worth and 

 as a lecturer his services were in demand. He became 



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