mself and do such reverence to the Lemuel Barkers? The obvious is not
of necessity the normal; fashion rules and deforms; the majority fall
tamely into the contemporary shape, and thus attain, in the eyes of the
true observer, only a higher power of insignificance; and the danger is
lest, in seeking to draw the normal, a man should draw the null, and
write the novel of society instead of the romance of man.

FOOTNOTES:

[19] This paper, which does not otherwise fit the present volume, is
reprinted here as the proper continuation of the last.--R. L. S.

[20] 1884.

[21] Now no longer so, thank Heaven!

MEMOIR OF FLEEMING JENKIN F.R.S., LL.D.

PREFACE[22]

On the death of Fleeming Jenkin, his family and friends determined to
publish a selection of his various papers; by way of introduction, the
following pages were drawn up; and the whole, forming two considerable
volumes, has been issued in England. In the States, it has not been
thought advisable to reproduce the whole; and the memoir appearing
alone, shorn of that other matter which was at once its occasion and its
justification, so large an account of a man so little known may seem to
a stranger out of all proportion. But Jenkin was a man much more
remarkable than the mere bulk or merit of his work approves him. It was
in the world, in the commerce of friendship, by his brave attitude
towards life, by his high moral value and unwearied intellectual effort,
that he struck the minds of his contemporaries. His was an individual
figure, such as authors delight to draw, and all men to read of, in the
pages of a novel. His was a face worth painting for its own sake. If the
sitter shall not seem to have justified the portrait, if Jenkin, after
his death, shall not continue to make new friends, the fault will be
altogether mine.

R. L. S.

_Saranac, Oct. 1887._

FOOTNOTE:

[22] First printed in England in 1907.--ED.

MEMOIR OF FLEEMING JENKIN

CHAPTER I

The Jenkins of Stowting--Fleeming's grandfather--Mrs. Buckner's
fortune--Fleeming's father; goes to sea; at St. Helena; meets King
Tom; service in the West Indies; end of his career--The
Campbell-Jacksons--Fleeming's mother--Fleeming's uncle John.

In the reign of Henry VIII., a family of the name of Jenkin, claiming to
come from York, and bearing the arms of Jenkin ap Philip of St