ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES
BY
SIR RICHARD JEBB, Litt.D., O.M.
LATE REGIUS PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Cambridge:
at the University Press
1907
Cambridge:
PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A.
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
PREFACE.
THE essays and addresses contained in this volume are selected from a large mass of material left by Sir Richard Jebb. I publish them in the desire to save from oblivion some portion of his minor literary work, which occupied the spare moments of a busy life. Of the papers thus brought together, some were contributed to reviews and magazines, while others were written in response to the many requests that came to him from various schools and societies; requests it was a pleasure to him to grant, if they could be fitted in with his other duties. It was always his desire to give what aid he could in the cause of letters or education. Most of these writings were struck off under pressure of many engagements. Systematic they are not, yet neither are they mere fragments. Each is, in a sense, complete in itself, and all seem to bear the mark of his distinctive handling.
I am greatly indebted to Mr S. H. Butcher, M.P., for his assistance in making this selection; to Dr Verrall for consenting to correct the proofs and see the book through the Press; and to Mr R. T. Wright for much valuable counsel.
That I am allowed to republish Humanism in Education is due to the kind offices of the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, who obtained this permission for me from the Trustees of the Romanes Fund.
My sincere thanks are also due to Messrs Macmillan & Co., to Messrs Longman & Co., to the Editor of the Journal of Hellenic Studies, and to the Editor of Hellenica, for permitting me to include in this volume articles published in the first instance by them.
CAROLINE JEBB.
- Cambridge,
- April, 1907.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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