It was his aim to avoid as much as possible technical terms or phrases whose meaning was not plain to the average reader. An anecdote was current that once when, in conducting a university examination, he was perusing the papers of a candidate who had darkened the subject by the use of extreme Hegelian phraseology, he turned to his co-examiner and said, “I can see that this is nonsense, but is it the right kind of nonsense?”
Since this sketch was written a very interesting Life of Edward Bowen by his nephew (the Hon. and Rev. W. E. Bowen) has appeared. Some of his (too few) essays and a collection of his school-songs are appended to it.
Mr. R. Bosworth Smith.
It is printed in the Life.
“Chiffers” is the typical would-be imitator of Arnold.