58 By Stream and Sea, 



equal — in beauty of language, play of fancy, marshalling of 

 facts, and flow of vigorous narrative, these forty-nine pages 

 of " Chalk Stream Studies." 



In these essays, and on many another page, Kingsley's 

 motto is, " Be sportsmanlike and sin not." In a still older 

 contribution to Fraser (1849), in a charming paper upon 

 North Devon, he puts in a plea for sportsmen on the ground 

 that some of our most perfect topographical sketches have 

 been written by them, and while admitting that the majority 

 of sportsmen are the most unpoetical of men, he argues that 

 for most of them it is sport which at once keeps alive and 

 satisfies the aesthetic faculties, and helps to make them 

 purer, simpler, and more genial. " Esau," he says, " is a 

 dumb soul, especially here in England ; but he has as deep 

 a heart in him as Jacob, nevertheless, and as tender." 

 Kingsley was an exception to his own ruling, for in this 

 matter he was both Esau and Jacob. 



