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We were all silent for a minute; till the door-bell rang, and the servant came, announcing Mr. Bunsen, to see Miss Cardigan about the tenant houses. Miss Cardigan went off through the open doors that led to the front parlour; and standing by the fire, I watched her figure diminishing in the long distance till it passed into Mr. Bunsen's presence and disappeared. Mr.
More interesting than the recollections of a distinguished man's youth by his friends after he has become distinguished which are seldom quite natural and not always trustworthy are the contemporary records of the impressions made on him in his youth by those who were distinguished men when he was young. In some of Bunsen's letters we have such impressions. Thus he writes of Heyne in 1813:
In an investigation described by Kirchhoff as "classical," Swan had shown that 1/2,500,000 of a grain of sodium in a Bunsen's flame could be detected by its spectrum. He also proved the constancy of the bright lines in the spectra of hydrocarbon flames.
Fifteen determinations can be carried on at once without loss of time, this, however, depending on the operator's skill. I have made many assays, and assays by this method with similarly excellent results. Of the other methods, Bunsen's is acknowledged to be the most accurate, but is, of course, too troublesome to be used in technical work, although it is used in scientific analysis.
'To Paris, I suppose? queried Bazarov. 'To Paris and to Heidelberg. 'Why to Heidelberg? 'How can you ask? Why, Bunsen's there! To this Bazarov could find no reply. 'Pierre Sapozhnikov ... do you know him? 'No, I don't. 'Not know Pierre Sapozhnikov ... he's always at Lidia Hestatov's. 'I don't know her either. 'Well, it was he undertook to escort me.
Those twenty years, of course, were not without their changes in Bunsen's own views. The man who had come to Rome, in position a poor and obscure student, had grown into the oracle of a highly cultivated society, whose acquaintance was eagerly sought by every one of importance who lived at Rome or visited it, and into the diplomatic representative of one of the great Powers.
In 1841 he sent Bunsen to England to negotiate the ill-considered and precipitate arrangement for the Jerusalem bishopric; and on the successful conclusion of the negotiation, Bunsen was appointed permanently to be Prussian Minister in London. The manner of appointment was remarkable. The King sent three names to Lord Aberdeen and the English Court, and they selected Bunsen's.
"Always too late" might, I suppose, have been his motto; and when things have been given with one hand, he has seemed too ready to withdraw them with the other. But, after all, I must and do believe that he has noble qualities, so to have won Bunsen's love and respect. November 25. Mary is preparing a long letter, and it will therefore matter the less if mine is not so long as I intended.
Nor does it, in his opinion, account for all the differences between geysers and hot springs, and he proposes a structural hypothesis which combines Bischof's and Bunsen's theories."
But his ill-success or his ill-usage at Rome was more than compensated by the results to which it may be said to have led. Out of it ultimately came that which gave the decisive character to Bunsen's life his settlement in London as Prussian Minister.
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