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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 e.xcruciating 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.’ 
Dece 77 tber 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 
