An Address delivered to the Students of the London III. ANCIENT UNIVERSITIES AND THE MODERN WORLD Rectorial Address delivered before the University of Glasgow, January 11, 1907. Rectorial Address delivered before the University of Aberdeen, October 25, 1910. VIII. THE ENGLISH BIBLE. Speech delivered at the Commemoration of the 300th PAGE 127 IX. EDINBURGH 137 Speech delivered at Edinburgh on receiving the Free- X. THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 145 Speech delivered at the Celebration of the 250th Anni- XI. THE RUBÁIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYÁM. 155 An Address delivered to the Omar Khayyám Club, XII. BENJAMIN JOWETT Delivered at the Meeting at the University of London, Speech delivered in the House of Commons, April 27, 167 1908. XIV. KING EDWARD VII. . 175 Speech delivered in the House of Commons, May 11, 1910. XV. ALFRED LYTTELTON . 185 Speech delivered in the House of Commons, July 7, Speech delivered in the House of Commons, June 21, 1916 189 I CRITICISM 1 THE subject upon which I am about to offer you a few observations is one which I have selected because it has always appeared to me that, if what is called "the higher education" is worthy of the name, it ought to stimulate and guide the power and practice of criticism in its best and largest sense. I cannot profess to treat the matter in the exhaustive and scientific fashion which it deserves. What I have to say has been hastily put together under the storm and stress of pressing occupations, and if you find, as I fear you will, that it is at the same time desultory and dogmatic, I must ask you to be indulgent to one who has got out of the practice of lecturing. What do we mean by Criticism? What are its functions and its limits? These are the questions which I propose briefly to discuss. Let us upon the threshold disabuse our minds of one or two misleading and narrowing associations 1 Delivered to the students of the London Society for the Extension of University Teaching, April 23, 1898. |