Produced by Leah Moser and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. Produced from images provided by the Million Book Project. SIR ROBERT HART _THE ROMANCE OF A GREAT CAREER_ TOLD BY HIS NIECE JULIET BREDON SECOND EDITION 1910 CONTENTS A WORD OF INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I EARLY YEARS CHAPTER II FIRST YEARS IN CHINA–LIFE AT NINGPO–THE ALLIED