Synoptic Index 



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His collection of paintings and beautiful things . 192 



His artistic conception of a dream-building . . 193 



Project for the tomb of General Grant .... 194 



His picturesque and charming stories .... 196 

 A vanishing mirage of fortune for the benefit of 



art and artists 196 



Memoir by Edmund Clarence Stedman . . . 199 



King a kind of Martian visitor 201 



An eventful episode in his life ...... 202 



A transatlantic voyage 202 



An overnight philosopher 203 



An incessant frolic 204 



A sporting wager 206 



A Derby day at Epsom 206 



King's quest of spolia opima 208 



His matchless style and translucent English . . 208 

 His speech and writ iridescent with romantic 



imagination 209 



A loss to literature 209 



A place in history 209 



King's memory enshrined 210 



Memoir by William Crary Brownell . . . . 211 



King at the Century Club 213 



An ideal clubman in harmonious environment . 215 



His intellectual alertness 216 



His capacity for conversation 218 



His love of paradox 219 



His extraordinary mental activity 222 



His dominating imagination, a constant factor in 

 scientific achievement and in the field of 



letters 223 



Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada, a work of 



imagination of a very high order .... 224 



Memoir by Edward Cary 227 



King's school and college days 229 



Crossing the plains with Gardiner in 1863 . . . 229 



Service on the Geological Survey of California . 230 

 Undertaking of the Fortieth Parallel Survey 



(.1866) 231 



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