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Encouraged by these admissions in favor of the views he had been advancing for some time, Sir John Bowring wrote an official letter to Commissioner Yeh inviting him to an early interview, but stating that the interview must be held within the city of Canton at the viceroy's yamen. It will be noted that what Sir John asked fell short of what Keying had promised.
* "The Search for Sir John Franklin. "The Chinese and the Outer Barbarians." By Sir John Bowring. * "Our Volunteers." By Sir John Burgoyne. Shall we point out others? We are fellow-travellers, and shall make acquaintance as the voyage proceeds.
"I think you probably saved my life at the risk of yours, Miss Bowring," said Johnstone, at last, looking up. "Thank you very much." "Nonsense!" exclaimed the young girl, and she tried to laugh. "But you were telling me that you were not combative that you always avoided a fight, you know, and that you were so mild, and all that. For a very mild man, Mr.
"You knew my husband a long time ago, then!" she began, again looking across at Mrs. Bowring. Sir Adam glanced at Mrs. Bowring sharply from beneath his shaggy brows. "Oh yes," she said calmly. "We met before he was married." The grey-headed man slowly nodded assent, but said nothing. "Before his first marriage?" inquired Lady Johnstone gravely. "You know that he has been married twice."
George Bentham's Outline of a New System of Logic was partly founded upon his uncle's papers. The Analysis of the Influence of Natural Religion upon the Temporal Happiness of Mankind, by Philip Beauchamp, edited by George Grote, appeared in 1822; and Not Paul but Jesus, by Gamaliel Smith, in 1823. Bowring did not admit these works to his collection.
But one result, and to us the most important, was that the new attachment led to the composition of one of the worst biographies in the language, out of materials which might have served for a masterpiece. Bowring was a great linguist, and an energetic man of business.
Voluminous collections of the papers used by Bowring are at University College, and at the British Museum. Works, x. 33. Ibid. x. 31. Ibid. ix. 84. Ibid. x. 18. Southey was expelled from Westminster in 1792 for attacking the birch in a schoolboy paper. Works, x. 38. Bowring's confused statement, I take it, means this. Bentham, in any case, was not on the foundation. See Welsh's Alumni West.
The second volume, made, as Bowring says, from a number of scraps, is probably more 'Bowringised' than the first. Dumont's Traités were translated into Spanish in 1821, and the Works in 1841-43. There are also Russian and Italian translations. In 1830 a translation from Dumont, edited by F. E. Beneke, as Grundsätze der Civil- und Criminal-Gesetzgebung, etc., was published at Berlin.
"She'll have to know, if you are engaged to the daughter." "I'm not engaged to Miss Bowring," said Brook, disconsolately. "She won't look at me. What an infernal mess I've made of my life!" "Don't be an ass, Brook!" exclaimed Sir Adam, for the third time that morning. "It's all very well to tell me not to be an ass," answered the young man gravely.
"I sometimes think that one's past life is written in a foreign language," said Mrs. Bowring, shutting the book she held, but keeping the place with one smooth, thin forefinger, while her still, blue eyes turned from her daughter's face towards the hazy hills that hemmed the sea thirty miles to the southward.
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