BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1887

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Copyright, 1886,

BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

All rights reserved.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge:
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

To G. W. SMALLEY, Esq.

You heard several of

MY DEAR SMALLEY, these Addresses delivered, and were good enough to think better of them than I did. As this was one of my encouragements to repeat them before a larger audience, perhaps you will accept the dedication of the volume which contains them.

Faithfully yours,

DEERFOOT FARM, November 10. 1886.

J. R. LOWELL.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

DEMOCRACY

INAUGURAL ADDRESS ON ASSUMING THE PRESI-

DENCY OF THE BIRMINGHAM AND MIDLAND IN-

STITUTE, BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, 6 OCTOBER,

1884.

SPOKEN ON THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT GAR-

FIELD AT THE MEMORIAL MEETING IN EXETER

HALL, LONDON, 24 SEPTEMBER, 1881.

SPEECH AT THE MEETING IN THE CHAPTER

HOUSE OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY IN COMMEMO-

RATION OF DEAN STANLEY, 13 DECEMBER, 1881.

FIELDING

.

ADDRESS ON UNVEILING THE BUST OF FIELD-

ING, DELIVERED AT SHIRE HALL, TAUNTON,

SOMERSETSHIRE, ENGLAND, 4 SEPTEMBER, 1883.

COLERIDGE.

ADDRESS ON UNVEILING THE BUST OF COLE-

RIDGE AT WESTMINSTER ABBEY, 7 MAY, 1885.

BOOKS AND LIBRARIES.

ADDRESS AT THE OPENING OF FREE PUBLIC

LIBRARY IN CHELSEA, MASSACHUSETTS, 22 DE-

CEMBER, 1885.

WORDSWORTH

ADDRESS AS PRESIDENT OF THE WORDS-

WORTH SOCIETY, 10 MAY, 1884.

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