CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



Career. 



Youthful Studies The Power of using Knowledge First 

 Appearance in Public Affairs An Unsophisticated Loaf 

 A Mysterious Warning The Bread Riot Another 

 Remarkable Preservation The Restless Spirit of Revo- 

 lution Miraculous Escape at Paisley Lectures on 

 Missionary Work Constructs his own Lenses, &c., 

 Hard Work an excellent Medicine Robert Boyle's 

 Power as an Orator, ....... 13 



CHAPTER II. 



pbllantbropic Bnterprisee. 



Importance of Technical Education He organizes au 

 Industrial Museum Dr. Livingstone and African 

 Missions Change of Plans Nature and Art Dis- 

 covery of a new Explosive Trial of the Explosive Shell 

 H.R.H. The Duke of Cambridge approves it The 

 Official Extinguisher Injustice to Inventors A New 

 Ink; .......... 27 



