Pièce 72 - William Whewell to Julius Charles Hare

Does JCH know where Bunsen [Charles Christian Bunsen] is?: 'I thought he might like to fulfill his long talked of design of seeing Cambridge in term time'. WW has been reading Sterling's [John Sterling] Strafford which as JCH probably knows has a great deal of skill and considerable dramatic power: 'What I most miss in it is an English tone. The philosophy religion and polity, are not at all those of the time; nor those of English statesmen and lawyers at any time. He has omitted, too, any of the most animated turns in Straffords accusation and trial'. JCH was right in supposing it was the structure and not the style of his sermon which reminded him of Schleiermacher [Friedrich Schleiermacher, see WW to JCH, 10 Nov. 1843].