Life And Letters of James Hinton

mpests and is never shaken." Scarcely any letters, unfortunately, have been preserved of the few following years. Externally they were uneventful enough, except for the birth of his two sons, Howard and William, in 1S53 and 1854, and, in 1S55, of his daughter Adaline. After the first year, Mr. Hinton had dissolved his partnership with Mr. Fisher, and was now practising for himself as a London surgeon, still steadily pursuing his study of aural surgery, and in his leisure moments occupying himself with arranging and classifying Mr. Toynbee's anatomical museum in connection with the ear. In 1S54-55 he gave a course of lectures on Sound, having been led to the study of vibrations in relation to the organs of hearing. In the latter year he wrote to Mrs. Hiuton to announce his father having met with a bad accident. Accident to his Father. 09 "May 16, 1855. " I have sad news to tell you: our dear father fell down the pulpit-stairs at Cheltenham and broke his arm ?his left arm, happily. I enclose you mother's letter. You will see he is progressing favourably. I remember how, when your poor father fell down and injured himself, you felt so vividly how very, very dear he was to you; and this accident brings the same feeling to my mind. 'What a loss his death would be to us, and how we .should miss his sweet, grave kindness' Even Howard would mourn for him, would he not ? But I hope there are many years of usefulness and happiness before him; only he must b... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.