{1} _Delivered before the Trades’ Guild of Learning_, _December_ 4,
1877.
{38} _Delivered before the Birmingham Society of Arts and School of
Design_, _February_ 19, 1879.
{50} Now incorporated in the _Handbook of Indian Art_, by Dr. (now Sir
George) Birdwood, published by the Science and Art Department.
{61} These were originally published in _Fun_.
{71} _Delivered before the Birmingham Society of Arts and School of
Design_, _February_ 19, 1880.
{96} As I corrected these sheets for the press, the case of two such
pieces of destruction is forced upon me: first, the remains of the
Refectory of Westminster Abbey, with the adjacent Ashburnham House, a
beautiful work, probably by Inigo Jones; and second, Magdalen Bridge at
Oxford. Certainly this seems to mock my hope of the influence of
education on the Beauty of Life; since the first scheme of destruction is
eagerly pressed forward by the authorities of Westminster School, the
second scarcely opposed by the resident members of the University of
Oxford.
{100} Since perhaps some people may read these words who are not of
Birmingham, I ought to say that it was authoritatively explained at the
meeting to which I addressed these words, that in Birmingham the law is
strictly enforced.
{103} Not _quite_ always: in the little colony at Bedford Park,
Chiswick, as many trees have been left as possible, to the boundless
advantage of its quaint and pretty architecture.
{114} _A Paper read before tile Trades’ Guild of Learning and the
Birmingham Society of Artists_.
{128} I know that well-designed hammered iron trellises and gates have
been used happily enough, though chiefly in rather grandiose gardens, and
so they might be again—one of these days—but I fear not yet awhile.
{169} _Delivered at the London Institution_, _March_ 10, 1880.
{186} Indeed it is a new world now, when the new Cowley dog-holes must
needs slay Magdalen Bridge!—Nov. 1881.
{208} Or, to put it plainer still, the unlimited breeding of mechanical
workmen as _mechanical workmen_, not as _men_.