John Stuart Blackie : A Biography (Paperback)

Preface; 1. Parentage and childhood, 1809?1819; 2. At school and college, 1820?1829; 3. Student life in Gottingen, 1829; 4. Student life in Berlin, 1829?1830; 5. Rome, 1830?1831; 6. End of wanderjahre, 1831?1832; 7. Years of struggle, 1832?1837; 8. The Test Acts, 1837?1849; 9. Installation and marriage, 1841?1842; 10. Aberdeen and university reform, 1842?1850; 11. Aeschylus and the Greek chair, 1850?1852; 12. Edinburgh, 1852?1857; 13. Lays, lectures, and lyrics, 1857?1860; 14. Homer, 1861?1866; 15. The highlands and islands, 1866?1870; 16. Pilgrim years, 1870?1872; 17. Self-culture, 1873?1874; 18. The Celtic chair, 1875?1876; 19. Egypt, 1876?1879; 20. Retirement from the Greek chair, 1880?1882; 21. Class-room and platform, 1841?1882; 22. Recreations of an emeritus professor, 1882?1887; 23. Living Greek, 1888?1891; 24. Closing years, 1892?1895; Index.