Edward Granville Browne

Those Piercing Eyes: Edward Granville Browne in the Presence of Bahá'u'lláh

In *Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era*, Esslemont preserves the famous 1890 account by the Cambridge orientalist Edward Granville Browne — the only Westerner ever to record his impressions of meeting Bahá'u'lláh. The short paragraph was written in plain academic English. It has never been surpassed.