KINGSLEY’S “Prose Idyls” are unique among his productions for their restful quality. His career in literature and in the ministry of the Church of England was inspired by the spirit of unrest which makes progress possible. He was not content to accept anything as a substitute for the best unless it were the best possible, and as he failed to find that in the religious, social, commercial, or political life of his time, he did his best to bring it about. Born in Devonshire, January 12th, 1819, he graduated at Cambridge, and entering the ministry of the English Established Church, became Canon first of Middleham, then of Chester, and finally of Westminster. The “agnostic” spirit of science moved him to write “Hypatia, or Old Foes with New Faces,”—a very remarkable historical study, more widely read, no doubt, than “Yeast” and “Alton Locke,” two novels with a sociological motive which preceded it. His “Water Babies” is a child’s book with a concealed motive of protest against theories he did not approve. He died January 23d, 1875.