the honor to read it so
attentively, that the other day, when at Cashiobury, seeing the
book on the table, she looked out passages which she had approved
in order to read them aloud to the Queen-Dowager." (Vol. II. p.
121.)

And once more:--

"The Queen is a wife and a mother as happy as the happiest in her
dominions, and no one can be more careful of her charges. She
often speaks to me of the great task before her and the Prince in
the education of the royal children, and particularly of the
Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal."

Before the troubles of 1847 and 1848, Bunsen was enabled to spend part of
his time in the country, away from the turmoil of London, and much of his
literary work dates from that time. After his "Church of the Future," the
discovery of the genuine Epistles of Ignatius by the late Dr. Cureton led
Bunsen back to the study of the earliest literature of the Christian
Church, and the results of these researches were published in his
"Ignatius." Lepsius' stay in England and his expedition to Egypt induced
Bunsen to put his own materials in order, and to give to the world his
long-matured views on "The Place of Egypt in Universal History." The later
volumes of this work led him into philological studies of a more general
character, and at the meeting of the British Association at Oxford, in
1847, he read before the brilliantly attended ethnological section his
paper "On the Results of the recent Egyptian Researches in reference to
Asiatic and African Ethnology, and the Classification of Languages,"
published in the "Transactions" of the Association, and separately under
the title, "Three Linguistic Dissertations, by Chevalier Bunsen, Dr.
Charles Meyer, and Dr. Max Mueller." "Those three days at Oxford," he
writes, "were a time of great distinction to me, both in my public and
private capacity." Everything important in literature and art attracted
not only his notice, but his warmest interest; and no one who wanted
encouragement, advice, or help in literary or historical researches,
knocked in vain at Bunsen's door. His table at breakfast and dinner was
filled by ambassadors and professors, by bishops and missionaries, by
dukes and poor scholars, and his evening parties offered a kind of neutral
ground, where people could meet who could have met nowhere else, and where
English prejudices had no jurisdiction. That Bunsen, holding the position
which he hel