Biographical Study of A. W. Kinglake

It is just eleven years since Kinglake passed away, and his life has not yet been separately memorialized.  A few years more, and the personal side of him would be irrecoverable, though by personality, no less than by authorship, he made his contemporary mark.  When a tomb has been closed for centuries, the effaced lineaments of its tenant can be re-coloured only by the idealizing hand of genius, as Scott drew Claverhouse, and Carlyle drew Cromwell.