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gallery, and saw that it would have been useless 

 to have sought for seats below. A Mr. Bennet, 

 who is a friend of Mendelssohn's, and who is only 

 just turned twenty, sang magnificently. Mendels- 

 sohn came to the gallery at the end of Part I. 

 He was immediately recognised by the audience, 

 which stood and shouted. He is young, dark, 

 and quiet.' 



On October 6, Professor Owen writes in his 

 wife's diary : — 



' At a quarter-past nine William Owen was 

 born.' 



The next day there is the entry : — ' Papa's 

 joy a little damped by excruciating toothache. 

 Mother and child as well as possible.' 



About a month afterwards Mrs. Owen begins 

 the diary again. 



' November 9. — R. started according to order 

 before 1 1 a.m. to form a guard to Her Majesty at 

 Guildhall, as a member of the H.A.C 



'December 17. — Was in the drawing-room 

 with the baby when the servant let two French 

 gentlemen in. I told them Mr. Owen would be 

 in directly, and one of them — a rather corpulent, 

 nice-looking man who spoke excellent English — 

 played a long time with baby, and said he had 

 seven of them. R. then came in, and formally 

 introduced us. It was Prince Charles Lucien 

 Bonaparte, nephew to the Bonaparte. They all 

 went to the Museum, and when they came back 



