bust will stand in Westminster Abbey, in the Chapel of St. John the
Baptist, by the side of his friend, Frederick Maurice; and in the
Temple of Fame which will be consecrated to the period of Victoria
and Albert, there will be a niche for Charles Kingsley, the author of
Alton Locke and Hypatia.

Sooner or later a complete edition of his works will be wanted,
though we may doubt whether he himself would have wished all his
literary works to be preserved. From what I knew of him and his
marvellous modesty, I should say decidedly not. I doubt more
especially, whether he would have wished the present book, The Roman
and the Teuton, to be handed down to posterity. None of his books
was so severely criticised as this volume of Lectures, delivered
before the University of Cambridge, and published in 1864. He
himself did not republish it, and it seems impossible to speak in
more depreciatory terms of his own historical studies than he does
himself again and again in the course of his lectures. Yet these
lectures, it should be remembered, were more largely attended than
almost any other lectures at Cambridge. They produced a permanent
impression on many a young mind. They are asked for again and again,
and when the publishers wished for my advice as to the expediency of
bringing out a new and cheaper edition, I could not hesitate as to
what answer to give.

I am not so blinded by my friendship for Kingsley as to say that
these lectures are throughout what academical lectures ought to be.
I only wish some one would tell me what academical lectures at Oxford
and Cambridge can be, as long as the present system of teaching and
examining is maintained. It is easy to say what these lectures are
not. They do not profess to contain the results of long continued