Meanwhile, full of the facts and of the feelings of the movement, Mr. Kingsley had published his ' Alton Locke : Tailor and Poet,' a novel of which a tailor was the hero, and which, from the earnestness with which it treated social and political questions (the earnestness, it was said, of a ' Chartist clergyman '), as well as from its power as a work of imagination, at once made the author's name known over the country. Alton Locke' was followed in 1851 by a second fiction, philosophical rather than political, entitled Yeast : a Problem,' reprinted from 'Fraser's Magazine;' this in 1853 by a powerful his torical and philosophical romance, also collected in two volumes from 'Eraser's Magazine,' and entitled ' Hypatia, or New Foes with an Old Face ;' and this again in 1855 by Westward Ho 1 or the Voyages and Adventures of Sir A. Leigh, Kut., in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth,' a three-volume noveL In all these novels, while there is a singular blending of imaginative and descriptive power with philosophical thought, and also a remarkable liberality of sentiment, there is a uniform presence of the argument for the intellectual and social omnipotence of Christianity. The same spirit appears iu publications of a different order which proceeded about the same time from Mr.
Kingsley's pen—the 'Message of the Church to Labouring Men,' a sermon which reached its fifth edition in 1851; Sermons ou National Subjects Preached in a Village Church,' 1852; 'Phaethon, or Loose Thoughts for Loose Thinkers,' 1852; ' Alexandria and her Schools,' the substance of four lectures delivered in Edinburgh in 1854; and 'Sermons for the Times,' 1855. Mr. Kingsley's last publications are ' Oiaucue, or the Wonders of the Shore,' 1855 (an expansion of an article on the study of natural history which appeared originally in the ' North British Review '); and ' The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales' (an adaptation of some of the Greek myths for Children), 1856. Mr. Kingsley has oontributed largely to 'Fraser's Magazine' and to the North British Review,' and more recently to the eighth edition of the 'Encyclopedia Britanoica.' He has also delivered many lectures, some of which, in addition to those mentioned above, have been published separately or as parts of collections of leoturee. Altogether, as he is one of the most popular writers of the day (as is proved by the sale of his writings), so he is certainly one of the most independent and influential ; and being still young, much more is to be hoped from his farther life.