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tenacity Whether he has left posthu-
 nous notes and papers we know not;
 that he might have done far more to
 raise @ monument to himself and for
 the instruction of his fellow-creatures is
 certain. Yet his studies were incessant.
 if not arduous, and his literary labors
 were far from unfruitful
 Freeman. in his "IIistory of Sicily"
 hestows praise that almost amounts to
 adulation on the one or two essays in
 the Quarterly Review, in which his own
 more elaborate studies had been antle- ipated. He praises Bnnbury's articles
 as models of exact and masterly con-
 densation, and, in fact, concentration
 was the tone of Bunbury's mind, ana
 gave the character to his work. we do
 not fancy that he was frequent con-
 tributor to the Quarterly, but we know
 that there was no writer by whom the ] late Sir William Smith set higher store | for assurance of exact research anu
 sound critical judgment. Each day ne cultivated taste and judgment in some
 hours devoted to his faVorite classics, and no admirer of Browning or Tenny- son was more thoroughly at home in his favorite poets than Bunbury in the great epics of classical antiquity, in the works of the Greek dramatists, or the
 sonneteers and satirists of Rome. We have said that the range of his attainments was seldom suspected, and few of his acquaintances knew how well versed he was in science. We have heard from friend of his who hap pened to be present that on one occa- sion he had dined at the Athenaeum. with Sir William Grove and some other scientific celebrities, immediately after
 a meeting of the British association, at which Sir William Grove had occupied the chair. The scientific topics of the day came naturally up for discussion, and Sir William, although he had al- ways known Bunbury well, was not only surprised but actually startled by the familiarity he showed with astro- nomical discovery in especial, and the new and original lights he brought to bear on it. In art he was an enthusias- tic and a most accomplished critic-in- deed. he had been educated in an ad- mirable school for the family collec- tion at Barton contains some of the finest Reynoldses in England-he had frequently visited almost all the great 6ttllCllN9y etilNA AAi NiPNNP@t''so the Spanish school, for example, he would recall the remarks of Ford and Sir William Stirling Maxwell and oth- CT scarcely less distinguished connois- seurs.
 Shy of manner as he was, his light social talk, when he frightened up, was extremely fascinating. Then, too, that marvellous memory never failed him. As he got animated and excited he would gasp in his talk, and incident and reminiscence would crowd fast on each other, till he was almost apt to lose himself in a labyrinth of entertain ing digressions. As a mere boy he had made the tour of southern Europe with his parents, when the Continent, though still in the throes of convulsion, was beginning to settle down after the long war The Bunburys, with their bril- liant social qualities and influential connections-for Bunburys, Napiers and Lennoxes had been always inter marrying-brought their own introduce tions and had the entree everywhere, They were welcomed at the little Ital- ian courts, at Rome and at Naples, and Sir Edwards youthful memories were a changing kaleidoscope of rounds of court gayety, enlivened by an occasion al emeute, of perils by flood and trou- bles at custom-housesi of the gems of art and the glimpses of scenery, of ves- sells storm-bound by contrary winds, and of running the gauntlet of Salva- tor-like gorges, pieketed by troops and l ambushed by brigands.
 When he succeeded to the title and | estates few years ago, it made little | change in his confirmed habits. He | spent a good part of the year at his | seat at Barton, and when in town his | ways were regularly irregular. He | dropped into the club for very late lunchs which did not seem to interfere with a by no means very late dinner. | His healthy appetite seemed an excel lent sign, and at dinner he neither sought company nor summed it. With every one congenial to him on his many points of contact he would talk to the last as volubly as ever; and there are not few of his familiars who may regret they did not make better use of the stores of intellectual treasure that are gone with their possessor.
 Sir Edward who was the ninth baro- net, was born in 1911, and was educa- ted at Trinity college, Cambridge, where he was senior classic and chan cellor's meda1list In 1888. He was called to the bar by the Inner Temple In 1S4l, and sat as M. P. for Bury St. Edmunds in the Liberal interest from 1S47 to 1852. He succeeded his brother, Sir Charles James Fox Bunbury, in 1886. He died and Is succeeded by hls nephew, Henry Charles John Bunbury eldest son of the late Colonel Henry St. Pierre Bunbury, c. B. London Times.
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