Author:John Bowring

John Bowring
(1792–1872)

John Bowring

Works

• A Visit to the Philippine Islands (1859) (start transcription)
• "Discourse on Siam and the Siamese", in Siam and the Siamese (1867)
• On Remunerative Prison Labour, as an Instrument for Promoting the Reformation and Diminishing the Cost of Offenders (1865) (start transcription)
• "Oriental Recollections: Peeps into the Harem" in Once a Week, Series 1, 3 (1860)
• Minor Morals for Young People, Illustrated in Tales and Travels (1838) (start transcription) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)
• The Decimal System in Numbers, Coins and Accounts (1854) (start transcription)
• The Kingdom and People of Siam (1857) (transcription volumes: 1, 2)

Legislation

• Ordinance No. 4 of 1855 (An Ordinance to establish a proper System of Registration for Colonial Vessels.)
• Treaty of friendship and commerce between Great Britain and Siam (1856)

Poetry

• A Memorial Volume of Sacred Poetry, edited by Deborah Bowring (1873) (external scan)
• Hymns (Privately published, 1825)
  • "In the Cross of Christ I Glory"
  • "Watchman, Tell Us of the Night"
• "Sonnet" in Forget Me Not for 1826 (1825) (transcription project)
• "The Glowworm" in Forget Me Not for 1827 (1826) (transcription project)
• "The Spider swinging in the Wind" in Forget Me Not for 1827 (1826) (transcription project)
• "Hymn" in Forget Me Not for 1827 (1826) (transcription project)
• Matins and Vespers, With Hymns and Occasional Devotional Pieces (1827) (start transcription)
• "The Blind Woman of Manzanares" in Once a Week, Series 1, 1 (1859)
• "The Wreck of the Alma" in Once a Week, Series 1, 1 (1859)

Works as translator and anthologist

• Specimens of the Russian Poets (1821–1823) IA 1, IA 2
  • "God (Derzhavin)"
• Peter Schlemihl: A German Story, from Adelbert von Chamisso (1824)
• Batavian Anthology; or, Specimens of the Dutch Poets; with Remarks on the Poetical Literature and Language of the Netherlands, to the End of the Seventeenth Century (1824) IA
• Ancient Poetry and Romances of Spain (1824) IA
• Specimens of the Polish Poets; with Notes and Observations on the Literature of Poland (1827) IA
• Servian Popular Poetry (1827) (external scan)
• Sketch of the Language and Literature of Holland: Being a Sequal to His Batavian Anthology (1829) (external scan)
• Poetry of the Magyars, Preceded by a Sketch of the Language and Literature of Hungary and Transylvania (1830)
• Cheskian Anthology: Being a History of the Poetical Literature of Bohemia, with Translated Specimens (1832)
• The Works of Jeremy Bentham (1843) (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
• Translations from Alexander Petőfi, the Magyar Poet (1866) IA

Works about Bowring

• "The Administration of Sir John Bowring," in Europe in China by Ernst Johann Eitel (1895)
• "Bowring, Sir John," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Bowring, John," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Bowring, Sir John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Tydus-Pooh-Pooh," in The Maclise Portrait-Gallery (pp. 74−76), by William Bates, illustrated by Daniel Maclise, London: Chatto and Windus (1883)