Century Necrological Note 



models of clear statement of clear 

 thinking on difficult subjects ; in his 

 youthful sketches of Mountaineering 

 in the Sierra Nevada, and in a few 

 fugitive articles such as The Helmet 

 of Mambrino, of which Mr. Stedman 

 conclusively says that " any writer 

 might be glad to be judged by it." 



Had he lived a few days longer, 

 King would have been threescore ; 

 but we think of him, — so vigorous, 

 when last he was with us, was his 

 bearing, so bright his winning glance, 

 so swift and kindling his unique 

 intelligence, — as Milton thought of 

 his friend King : 



" Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, 

 Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer." 



It is more than a quarter of a 

 century ago that he joined the Club ; 

 a little while since he described it 

 to an enquiring foreign visitor as 

 " the rag, tag and bobtail of all there 

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