Synoptic Index 



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Note introducing Mr. Thomas Sturgis .... 92 



Note addressed to Mr. W. D. Howells ... 94 



Note addressed to Mr. John Hay 95 



Socrates or Don Quixote ? 95 



The Helmet of Mambrino, the most precious 



treasure of Don Horacio 97 



His last illness 97 



Final resting-place of "The Bachelor of San 



Francisco " 98 



Search for the helmet which vanished after Don 



Horacio's death 99 



An advertisement 102 



Supposed discovery of the helmet at the pawn- 

 broker's 103 



Its purchase for seven dollars 104 



A sympathetic detective 104. 



His bill of sale and services 105 



Subsequent investigation 108 



The pawnbroker's statement 109 



Mordecai Benguiat's story no 



A copper basin from Smyrna in 



A mistaken identification 114 



" The Helmet of Sombrino " 115 



Memoir by John Hay 117 



King's genial nature 119 



His facility in acquiring command of languages . 123 



His universal sympathy 125 



His place in science 125 



What he might have been in literature . . . . 126 



His eye for art 127 



Visit to Gustave Dore 129 



Visit to Ruskin 129 



His intellectual versatility 130 



His power of diffusing happiness 131 



Only one King 132 



Memoir by William D. Howells 133 



Varied impressions of King 135 



His sunny gayety 135 



First meeting in proof-reader's room of the Uni- 

 versity Press at Cambridge, about 1869 . . 136 



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