CHAPTER VII

THE SABBATICAL YEAR 523 Search for a suitable house—Send-off from friends in Edinburgh—Windydene—Life in retirement—Fruit- growing—Dairy—Friends—Books—Winters abroad— Interest in public affairs—Distrust of Germany— Suffrage—Death of Professor Masson—S. J.-B.’s religious attitude—Health—Last illness.

APPENDICES

A. Pedigree of the Jex-Blake family. Origin of 543 compound surname

B. “Words for the Way.”—No. 2. Rest 544

C. Conclusions from “A Visit to American Schools and 548 Colleges”

D. The Edinburgh Extra-Mural School 551

E. Letter to the _Times_ in reply to Mrs. Garrett 552 Anderson

F. Letter to the _Times_ in reply to the Principal of 555 Edinburgh University

G. Permanent Memorials of S. J.-B. 563

INDEX 565

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

SOPHIA JEX-BLAKE _Frontispiece_ From a painting by Samuel Laurence

THOMAS JEX-BLAKE _To face p._ 70 From a drawing in chalks by Henry T. Wells, R.A.

MARIA EMILY JEX-BLAKE ” 384 From a drawing in chalks by Henry T. Wells, R.A.

SOPHIA JEX-BLAKE ” 484

_PART I_

Our great interest in biography is due to the desire to see that the “child is father to the man”; in other words, to see how, from boyhood to manhood and from manhood to old age, through all change of circumstances and all widening of intellectual and practical interests, we can detect the same unique, individual nature, and link each new expression of it in speech and action with that which preceded it.

EDWARD CAIRD.