KINGSLEY, Rev. CHARLES, late chaplain in ordinary to the queen, was born at Holne vicarage, Devonshire, in 1819. He entered Magdalen college, Cambridge, in 1840, where he highly distinguished himself in classics and mathematics. In 1844 he became curate, and, shortly after, rector of Eversley, in Hampshire. In the same year be published Village Sermons, characterized as honest, downright wisdom, conveyed in a plain and simple style. In 1848 appeared The Saint's Tragedy, or the True Story of _Elizabeth of Hungary, an admirable and truly catholic representation of medimva] piety. 'The next two or three years of his life were devoted—in company with his friend Mr. Maurice and others—to a series of efforts for the amelioration and Christianization of the working classes. To these efforts may be traced the origin of those co-operative associations in which the workmen are also the masters, the results or which have proved in every way beneficial. His opinions on the social anarchy of modern times are to be found in his Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet (1849), a novel of extraordinary power and fas cination, the hero of which is sought for in a London workshop. This was followed, in 1851, by Yeast, a Problem, in which Kingsley handleS, among other questions, the con dition of the English agricultural laborer; and in 1853 by Hypatia, or New Foes with an Old Face, a most vigorous and brilliant delineation of Christianity in conflict with rude Gothic paganism and the expiring philosophy of Greece in the early part of the fifth• century. Both of these works appeared in Fraser's Magazine. Two years after, he pub=
lisped Westward Ho! probably the greatest of his works. Its glowing pictures of South American forests are said to have excited the admiration of Humboldt, who had himself really seen what Kingsley only imagined. Other works of his are Message of the Church to Laboring Men; Sermons on National Subjects, preached in a Village Church; Phaethon, or Loose Thoughts for Loose Thinkers; Alexandria and her Schools; Sermons for the Times; Glaucus, or the Wonders of the Shore; The heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales; Two Years Ago; The Water Babies; Good News of God; ilereward, the Last of the English (1866); The Her mits (1867); How and Why (1869); At Last, a Christmasin the West Indies (1871). He was appoihted professor of modern history at Cambridge in 1859, and, after resigning that post,, was made, in 1869, canon of CLiester. Ile died in 1875. A biography by his wife appeared in 1876.