Goldwin Smith

Goldwin Smith
Born	(1823-08-13)13 August 1823 Reading, England
Died	The Grange, Toronto, Canada
Resting place	St James's Cemetery
Nationality	British
Education	Eton College
Alma mater	Magdalen College, Oxford
Occupation	Historian
Title	Regius Professor of Modern History
Term	1858–1866
Predecessor	Henry Halford Vaughan
Successor	William Stubbs
Parent(s)	Richard Pritchard Smith, Elizabeth Breton
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Goldwin Smith (13 August 1823 – 7 June 1910) was a British historian and journalist, active in the United Kingdom and Canada.

Early years

Smith was born at Reading, Berkshire. He was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford, and after a brilliant undergraduate career he was elected to a fellowship at University College, Oxford. He threw his energy into the cause of university reform with another fellow of University College, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley. On the Royal Commission of 1850 to inquire into the reform of the university, of which Stanley was secretary, Smith served as assistant-secretary; and he was then secretary to the commissioners appointed by the act of 1854. His position as an authority on educational reform was further recognised by a seat on the Popular Education Commission of 1858. In 1868, when the question of reform at Oxford was again growing acute, he published a pamphlet, entitled The Reorganization of the University of Oxford.

In 1865, he led the University of Oxford opposition to a proposal to develop Cripley Meadow north of Oxford railway station for use as a major site of Great Western Railway (GWR) workshops. His father had been a director of GWR. Instead the workshops were located in Swindon. He was public with his pro-Northern sympathies during the American Civil War, notably in a speech at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester in April 1863 and his Letter to a Whig Member of the Southern Independence Association the following year.

Besides the abolition of tests, effected by the act of 1871, many of the reforms suggested, such as the revival of the faculties, the reorganisation of the professoriate, the abolition of celibacy as a condition of the tenure of fellowships, and the combination of the colleges for lecturing purposes, were incorporated in the act of 1877, or subsequently adopted by the university. Smith gave the counsel of perfection that "pass" examinations ought to cease; but he recognised that this change "must wait on the reorganization of the educational institutions immediately below the university, at which a passman ought to finish his career." His aspiration that colonists and Americans should be attracted to Oxford was later realised by the will of Cecil Rhodes. On what is perhaps the vital problem of modern education, the question of ancient versus modern languages, he pronounced that the latter "are indispensable accomplishments, but they do not form a high mental training" – an opinion entitled to peculiar respect as coming from a president of the Modern Language Association.

Regius Professor

Portrait of Goldwin Smith, by Sir Edmund Wyly Grier, 1894.

He held the regius professorship of Modern History at Oxford from 1858 to 1866, that "ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the 'best instrument for cultivating the historical sense." As a historian, indeed, he left no abiding work; the multiplicity of his interests prevented him from concentrating on any one subject. His chief historical writings – The United Kingdom: a Political History (1899), and The United States: an Outline of Political History (1893) — though based on thorough familiarity with their subject, make no claim to original research, but are remarkable examples of terse and brilliant narrative.

The outbreak of the American Civil War proved a turning point in his life. Unlike most of the ruling classes in England, he championed the cause of the North, and his pamphlets, especially one entitled Does the Bible Sanction American Slavery? (1863), played a prominent part in converting English opinion. Visiting America on a lecture tour in 1864, he received an enthusiastic welcome, and was entertained at a public banquet in New York. In 1868 he threw up his career in England and settled in the United States, where he held the professorship of English and Constitutional History in the Department of History at Cornell University for a number of years. Goldwin Smith Hall, which is located in Cornell's Arts Quad, is named in his honour. In 1871 he moved to Toronto, where he edited the Canadian Monthly, and subsequently founded the Week and the Bystander, and where he spent the rest of his life living in The Grange manor.

Politics

He continued to take an active interest in English politics. As a Liberal, he opposed Benjamin Disraeli, and was a strong supporter of Irish Disestablishment, but refused to follow Gladstone in accepting Home Rule. He expressly stated that “if he ever had a political leader, his leader was John Bright, not Mr Gladstone." Speaking in 1886, he referred to his "standing by the side of John Bright against the dismemberment of the great Anglo-Saxon community of the West, as I now stand against the dismemberment of the great Anglo-Saxon community of the East." These words form the key to his views of the future of the British Empire and he was a leading light of the anti-imperialist "Little Englander" movement. He always maintained that Canada, separated by great barriers, running north and south, into four zones, each having unimpeded communication with the adjoining portions of the United States, was a profoundly artificial and badly-governed nation, that was destined by its natural configuration to enter into a commercial union with the US. This would in turn result in her breaking away from the British empire, and in the union of the Anglo-Saxons of the American continent into one great nation. These views are most fully stated in his Canada and the Canadian Question (1891).

Bust of Goldwin Smith, by Alexander Munro, 1866.

Though describing himself as "anti-Imperialistic to the core," he was yet deeply penetrated with a sense of the greatness of the British race. Of the British empire in India he said that "it is the noblest the world has seen... Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there." His fear was that England would become a nation of factory-workers, thinking more of their trade-union than of their country. He was also opposed to Britain granting more representative government to India, expressing fear that this would lead to a "murderous anarchy." His opinion of British activity in the Transvaal was well voiced in the Canadian press and in his book In The Court of History: An Apology of Canadians Opposed to the Boer War (1902). This work is a fascinating articulation of pacifist opposition to the Second Anglo-Boer War of 1899–1902. It is important because it is amongst the few expressions of opposition toward from the perspective of an Anglo-colonial settler.

Goldwin Smith, photo by Notman & Fraser.

Smith was an outspoken critic of Jewish tribalism and ethnocentrism, identifying it as the source of antisemitism, and expressed the need for Jews to assimilate within the nation states rather than existing as a "nation within nations". He had a strong influence on Mackenzie King and Henri Bourassa.

He proposed elsewhere that Jews and Arabs were of the same race. He also believed that Islamic oppression of non-Muslims was due to economic factors.

These anti-imperialist prolegomena were intensified and made manifest in his Commonwealth or Empire? (1902) – a warning to the United States against the assumption of imperial responsibilities. Other causes that he powerfully attacked were liquor prohibition, female suffrage and State socialism. All these are discussed in his Essays on Questions of the Day (revised edition, 1894). He also published sympathetic monographs on William Cowper and Jane Austen, and attempted verse in Bay Leaves and Specimens of Greek Tragedy. In his Guesses at the Riddle of Existence (1897), he abandons the faith in Christianity expressed in his lecture of 1861 on Historical Progress (where he forecast the speedy reunion of Christendom on the "basis of free conviction"), and writes in a spirit "not of Agnosticism, if Agnosticism imports despair of spiritual truth, but of free and hopeful inquiry, the way for which it is necessary to clear by removing the wreck of that upon which we can found our faith no more."

Later years

In his later years he expressed his views in a weekly journal, The Farmer's Sun, and published in 1904 My Memory of Gladstone, while occasional letters to the Spectator showed that he had lost neither his interest in English politics and social questions nor his remarkable gifts of style. He died at his residence in Toronto, The Grange.

Goldwin Smith is credited with the quote "Above all nations is humanity," an inscription that was engraved in a stone bench he offered to Cornell in May 1871. The bench sits in front of Goldwin Smith Hall, named in his honour. This quote is the motto of the University of Hawaii and other institutions around the world (for example, the Cosmopolitan Club at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

Another stone bench inscribed with the motto, sits on the campus of Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. It sits with a clear view down onto the city.

After his death, a plaque in his memory was erected outside his birthplace in the town centre of Reading. This still exists, outside the entrance to the Harris Arcade.

See also

• The Irish Question
• The Jewish Question

Works

• 1861 – Rational Religion, and the Rationalistic Objections of the Bampton Lectures for 1858.
• 1861 – The Foundation of the American Colonies.
• 1861 – The Study of History.
• 1863 – The Empire: A Series of Letters.
• 1863 – Does the Bible Sanction American Slavery?
• 1863 – On Some Supposed Consequences of the Doctrine of Historical Progress.
• 1864 – A Letter to a Whig Member of the Southern Independence Association.
• 1864 – A Plea for the Abolition of Tests in the University of Oxford.
• 1865 – The Civil War in America.
• 1865 – England and America.
• 1865 – Lectures on the Study of History.
• 1867 – Three English Statesmen.
• 1868 – The Reorganization of the University of Oxford.
• 1871 – The European Crisis of 1870.
• 1878 – The Political Destiny of Canada.
• 1880 – Cowper.
• 1881 – Lectures and Essays.
• 1882 – Great Britain, America, and Ireland.
• 1883 – False Hopes: Or, Fallacies, Socialistic and Semi-socialistic.
• 1885 – Temperance versus Prohibition.
• 1886 – Dismemberment no Remedy: An address.
• 1887 – Schism in the Anglo-Saxon Race.
• 1888 – Keeping Christmas.

• 1888 – A Trip to England.
• 1890 – Life of Jane Austen.
• 1891 – Canada and the Canadian Question.
• 1891 – Loyalty.
• 1893 – Essays on Questions of the Day.
• 1893 – Oxford and Her Colleges.
• 1893 – The United States: An Outline of Political History.
• 1893 – Bay Leaves: Translations from the Latin Poets.
• 1893 – Specimens of Greek Tragedy: Euripides.
• 1894 – Specimens of Greek Tragedy: Aeschylus and Sophocles.
• 1896 – Guesses at the Riddle of Existence, and Other Essays on Kindred Subjects.
• 1899 – Shakespeare: The Man.
• 1899 – The United Kingdom: A Political History.
• 1901 – Commonwealth or Empire?
• 1902 – In the Court of History.
• 1903 – The Founder of Christendom.
• 1904 – The Early Days of Cornell.
• 1904 – Lines of Religious Inquiry.
• 1904 – My Memory of Gladstone.
• 1905 – Irish History and the Irish Question.
• 1906 – In Quest of Light.
• 1906 – Labour and Capital.
• 1908 – No Refuge but in Truth.
• 1910 – Reminiscences.

Articles

• "Has England an Interest in the Disruption of the American Union?," Macmillan's Magazine, Vol. X, May/October 1864.
• "England and America," The Atlantic Monthly, Volume XIV, No. 86, December 1864.
• "President Lincoln," Macmillan's Magazine, Vol. XI, November 1864/April 1865.
• "The Proposed Constitution for British North America," Macmillan's Magazine, Vol. XI, November 1864/April 1865.
• "The University of Oxford," Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. XXX, No. 180, May 1865; Part II, Vol. XXXI, No. 181, June 1865.
• "Richard Cobden," Macmillan's Magazine, Vol. XII, May/October 1865.
• "The Death of President Lincoln," Macmillan's Magazine, Vol. XII, May/October 1865.
• "An Englishman in Normandy," The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XVIII, No. 105, July 1866.
• "The Last Republicans of Rome," Macmillan's Magazine, Vol. XVII, November 1867/April 1868.
• "The Revolution in England," The North American Review, Vol. 108, No. 222, Jan. 1869.
• "War Under the Old Testament," Advocate of Peace (1847–1884), New Series, Vol. 1, No. 6, June 1869.
• "The Study of History," The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XXV, No. 147, January 1870.
• "The Ecclesiastical Crisis in England," The North American Review, Vol. 110, No. 226, Jan. 1870.
• "The Aim of Reform," The Fortnightly Review, Vol. XVII, 1872.
• "The Recent Struggle in the Parliament of Ontario," The Canadian Monthly and National Review, Vol. I, 1872.
• "The Woman's Rights Movement," The Canadian Monthly and National Review, Vol. I, 1872.
• "The Late Session of the Parliament of Ontario," The Canadian Monthly and National Review, Vol. I, 1872.
• "Alfredus Rex Fundator," The Canadian Monthly and National Review, Vol. II, July/December 1872.
• "The Labour Movement," Contemporary Review, Vol. XXI, December 1872/May 1873.
• "The Irish Question," The Canadian Monthly and National Review, Vol. III, January/June 1873.
• "What is Culpable Luxury?," Canadian Monthly and National Review, Vol. III, January/June 1873.
• "Cowper," Canadian Monthly and National Review, Vol. IV, July/December 1873.
• "Female Suffrage" Macmillan's Magazine, Vol. XXX, May/October 1874 (separately republished, 1875).
• "The Immortality of the Soul," The Canadian Monthly and National Review, Vol. IX, 1876.
• "Falkland and the Puritans: A Reply to Mr. Matthew Arnold," The Contemporary Review, Vol. XXIX, December 1876/May 1877.
• "The Defeat of the Liberal Party," The Fortnightly Review, Vol. XXII, 1877.
• "The Policy of Aggrandizement," The Fortnightly Review, Vol. XXII, 1877.
• "The Labour War in the United States," The Contemporary Review, Vol. XXX, September 1877.
• "The Slaveowner and the Turk," The Contemporary Review, Vol. XXX, November 1877.
• "The Ninety Years' Agony of France," The Contemporary Review, Vol. XXXI, December 1877/March 1878.
• "England's Abandonment of the Protectorate of Turkey," The Contemporary Review, Vol. XXXI, December 1877/March 1878.
• "Can Jews be Patriots?," The Nineteenth Century, Vol. III, January/June 1878.
• "University Extension," The Fortnightly Review, Vol. XXIII, 1878.
• "Whigs and Liberals," The Fortnightly Review, Vol. XXIII, 1878.
• "The Eastern Crisis," The Fortnightly Review, Vol. XXIII, 1878.
• "The Greatness of the Romans," The Contemporary Review, Vol. XXXII, May 1878.
• "Berlin and Afghanistan", The Canadian Monthly and National Review, Vol. I, December 1878.
• "The Greatness of England," The Contemporary Review, Vol. XXXIV, December 1878.
• "Is Universal Suffrage a Failure?," The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XLIII, Issue 255, January 1879.
• "The Prospect of a Moral Interregnum," The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XLIV, Issue 265, November 1879.
• "Pessimism," The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XLV, Issue 268, February 1880.
• "Canada and the United States," The North American Review, Vol. 131, No. 284, Jul. 1880.
• "The Canadian Tariff," The Contemporary Review, Vol. XL, July/December 1881.
• "The Jewish Question," The Nineteenth Century, Vol. X, July/December 1881.
• "Has Science Yet Found a New Basis for Morality?," The Contemporary Review, Vol. XLI, January/June 1882.
• "Parliament and the Rebellion in Ireland," The Contemporary Review, Vol. XLI, January/June 1882.
• "The Machinery of Elective Government," The Nineteenth Century, Vol. XI, January/June 1882.
• "Peel and Cobden," The Nineteenth Century, Vol. XI, January/June 1882.
• "The 'Home Rule' Fallacy," The Nineteenth Century, Vol. XII, July/December 1882.
• "The Jews: A Deferred Rejoinder," The Nineteenth Century, Vol. XII, July/December 1882.
• "Why Send More Irish to America?," The Nineteenth Century, Vol. XIII, January/June 1883.
• "Evolutionary Ethics and Christianity," The Contemporary Review, Vol. XLIV, December 1883.
• "The Conflict with the Lords," The Contemporary Review, Vol. XLVI, September 1884.
• "The Fallacy of Irish History," Choice Literature, Vol. III, 1885.
• "The Organization of Democracy," The Eclectic Magazine, Vol. XLI, 1885.
• "The Expansion of England," Choice Literature, Vol. III, 1885.
• "The Administration of Ireland," The Contemporary Review, Vol. XLVIII, July/December 1885.
• "The Capital of the United States," Macmillan's Magazine, Vol. LIV, May/October 1886.
• "Election Notes," Macmillan's Magazine, Vol. LIV, May/October 1886.
• "England Revited," Macmillan's Magazine, Vol. LIV, May/October 1886.
• "John Bunyan," The Contemporary Review, Vol. L, October 1886.
• "The Political History of Canada," The Nineteenth Century, Vol. XX, July/December 1886.
• "The Moral of the Late Crisis," The Nineteenth Century, Vol. XX, July/December 1886.
• "The Canadian Constitution," The Contemporary Review, Vol. LII, July 1887.
• "The Railway Question in Manitoba," The Contemporary Review, Vol. LII, October 1887.
• "American Statesmen," Part II, The Nineteenth Century, Vol. XXIII, January/June 1888.
• "Conservatism and Female Suffrage," The National Review, Vol. X, No. 60, 1888.
• "The Invitation to Celebrate the French Revolution," The National Review, Vol. XI, No. 66, 1888.
• "The Policy of Aggrandizement," The Popular Science Monthly, Supplement, 1888.
• "Shakespeare's Religion and Politics," Macmillan's Magazine, Vol. LIX, November 1888/April 1889.
• "The American Commonwealth," Macmillan's Magazine, Vol. LIX, November 1888/April 1889.
• "Prohibitionism in Canada and the United States," Macmillan's Magazine, Vol. LIX, November 1888/April 1889.
• "Progress and War," Macmillan's Magazine, Vol. LX, May/October 1889.
• "Canada and the Jesuits," Macmillan's Magazine, Vol. LX, May/October 1889.
• "Prophets of Unrest," The Forum, Vol IX, August 1889.
• "Woman's Place in the State," The Forum, Vol. IX, January 1890.
• "The Hatred of England," The North American Review, Vol. 150, No. 402, May 1890.
• "Canada through English Eyes," The Forum, May 1890.
• "A True Captain of Industry: Thomas Brassey," The Methodist Magazine, Vol. XXXI, January/June 1890.
• "A Moral Crusader," Macmillan's Magazine, Vol. LXII, May/October 1890.
• "The Two Mr. Pitts," Macmillan's Magazine, Vol. LXII, May/October 1890.
• "The American Tariff," Macmillan's Magazine, Vol. LXII, May/October 1890.
• "Exit McKinley," Macmillan's Magazine, Vol. LXIII, November 1890/April 1891.
• "Mr. Lecky on Pitt," Macmillan's Magazine, Vol. LXIII, November 1890/April 1891.
• "Will Morality Survive Religion?," The Forum, April 1891.
• "New Light on the Jewish Question," The North American Review, Vol. 153, No. 417, Aug. 1891.
• "Party Government on Its Trial," The North American Review, Vol. 154, No. 426, May 1892.
• "The Contest for the Presidency," The Nineteenth Century, Vol. XXXII, July/December 1892.
• "Anglo-Saxon Union: A Response to Mr. Carnegie," The North American Review, Vol. 157, No. 441, Aug. 1893.
• "The Situation at Washington," The Nineteenth Century, Vol. XXXIV, July/December 1893.
• "Problems and Perils of British Politics," The North American Review, Vol. 159, No. 452, Jul. 1894.
• "Arthur Stanley," The Nineteenth Century, Vol. XXXV, January/June 1894.
• "The Impending Revolution," The Nineteenth Century, Vol. XXXV, January/June 1894.
• "The House of Lords: Reform by 'Resolution'," The Nineteenth Century, Vol. XXXV, January/June 1894.
• "Froude," The North American Review, December 1894.
• "Our Situation Viewed from Without," The North American Review, Vol. 160, No. 462, May 1895.
• "The Colonial Conference," The Contemporary Review, Vol. LXVII, January/June 1895.
• "The Manchester School," The Contemporary Review, Vol. LXVII, January/June 1895.
• "Guesses at the Riddle of Existence," The North American Review, Vol. 161, No. 465, Aug. 1895.
• "The Canadian Copyright Bill," The Canadian Magazine, Vol. V, 1895.
• "Christianity's Millstone," The North American Review, Vol. 161, No. 469, Dec. 1895.
• "The Manitoba Schools Question," The Forum, March 1896.
• "Is There Another Life?," The Forum, July 1896.
• "A Reply," The Canadian Magazine, Vol. VII, 1896.
• "The Brewing of the Storm," The Forum, December 1896.
• "A Constitutional Misfit," The North American Review, Vol. 164, No. 486, May 1897.
• "Reform the House of Lords!," The Contemporary Review, Vol. LXXI, 1897.
• "The Disintegration of Political Party," The North American Review, Vol. 164, No. 487, Jun. 1897.
• "Are Our School Histories Anglophobe?," The North American Review, Vol. 165, No. 490, Sep. 1897.
• "Not Dead Yet!," The Canadian Magazine, Vol. X, No. 2, December 1897.
• "Is the Constitution Outworn?," The North American Review, Vol. 166, No. 496, Mar. 1898.
• "The Origin of Morality," The North American Review, Vol. 167, No. 503, Oct. 1898.
• "The Moral of the Cuban War," The Forum, November 1898.
• "American Histories." In: Among My Books. New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899.
• "Imperialism in the United States," The Contemporary Review, Vol. LXXV, May 1899.
• "The Failure of Party Government," The Nineteenth Century, Vol. XLV, January/June 1899.
• "War as a Moral Medicine," The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. LXXXVI, No. 518, December 1900.
• "Genesis and Outlook of Religion," The Contemporary Review, Vol. LXXVIII, 1900.
• "The Last Phase of Napoleon," The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. LXXXVII, No. 520, Feb 1901.
• "The Irish Question," The North American Review, Vol. CLXXII, No. 535, Jun. 1901.
• "Wellington," The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. LXXXVII, No. 524, June 1901.
• "The Political Situation in England," The North American Review, Vol. 173, No. 538, Sep. 1901.
• "The Age of Homer," The American Historical Review, Vol. VII, No. 1, Oct. 1901.
• "The Confederate Cruisers," The Independent, Vol. LIV, 1902.
• "A Gallery of Portraits," The North American Review, Vol. 176, No. 557, Apr. 1903.
• "Is Morality Shifting in its Foundation?," The Booklovers Magazine, Vol. I, No. 1, 1903.
• "Strenuous Life," The Independent, Vol. LV, 1903.
• "Mr. Morley's Life of Gladstone," Part II, The North American Review, Vol. 177, No. 565, Dec. 1903.
• "The Immortality of the Soul," The North American Review, Vol. 178, No. 570, May 1904.
• "English Poetry and English History," The American Historical Review, Vol. 10, No. 1, Oct. 1904.
• "City Government," The Independent, Vol. LVIII, 1905.
• "The Marquis of Dufferin and Ava," The Independent, Vol. LVIII, 1905.
• "The Treatment of History," The American Historical Review, Vol. 10, No. 3, Apr. 1905.
• "The Passing of the Household," The Independent, Vol. LIX, 1905.
• "Are We 'Re-Barbarized'"?, The Independent, Vol. LIX, 1905.
• "Burke on Party," The American Historical Review, Vol. 11, No. 1, Oct. 1905.
• "Is it Religious Persecution?," The Independent, Vol. LX, 1906.
• "The Impending Conflict," The Independent, Vol. LXI, 1906.
• "British Empire in India," The North American Review, Vol. 183, No. 598, 7 September 1906.
• "Chief-Justice Clark on the Defects of the American Constitution," The North American Review, Vol. 183, No. 602, 2 November 1906.
• "The Stage of Former Days," The Canadian Magazine, Vol. XXVIII, November 1906/April 1907.
• "Toronto: A Turn in its History," The Canadian Magazine, Vol. XXVIII, November 1906/April 1907.
• "The Church Question in France," The Outlook, 2 February 1907.
• "The Perils of the Republic," The North American Review, Vol. 184, No. 610, 1 March 1907.
• "Ireland," The North American Review, Vol. 185, No. 614, 3 May 1907.
• "Party Government", The Canadian Magazine, Vol. XXIX, No. 4, August 1907.
• "Evolution, Immortality and the Christian Religion: A Reply," The North American Review, Vol. 186, No. 623, Oct. 1907.
• "Magdalen College, Oxford," The Outlook, 14 September 1907.
• "Reform of the Senate," The Canadian Magazine, Vol. XXX, No. 6, April 1908.
• "The Religious Situation," The North American Review, Vol. 187, No. 629, Apr. 1908.
• "The Socialist Manifesto," The Canadian Magazine, Vol. XXXI, May/October 1908.
• "War," The Canadian Magazine, Vol. XXXI, May/October 1908.
• "Party Government," The North American Review, Vol. 188, No. 636, Nov. 1908.
• "Has England Wronged Ireland?," The Nineteenth Century and After, Vol. LXIV, July/December 1908.
• "The Crisis in India," The Canadian Magazine, Vol. XXXII, November 1908/April 1909.
• "Labour and Socialism," The Canadian Magazine, Vol. XXXII, November 1908/April 1909.
• "The American Civil War," McClure's Magazine, September 1910.
• "The Founding of Cornell University and His Introduction into Washington Society," McClure's Magazine, October 1910.
• "Last Words on Ireland," The Nineteenth Century and After, Vol. LXVIII, July/December 1910.
• "My Early Connection with London Journalism," The Canadian Magazine, Vol. XXXVI, November 1910/April 1911.

Miscellany

• "Dalhousie, James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, Marquis of (1812–1860)." In: Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th Edition, Vol. VI. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1878, pp. 776–780.
• "Peel, Sir Robert (1788–1850)." In: Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th Edition, Vol. XVIII. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1885, pp. 452–457.
• "Letters of Goldwin Smith to Charles Eliot Norton", Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society 49, October 1915/June 1916, pp. 106–160.

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Further reading

• Adam, G. Mercer (1881). "The Press Banquet to Mr. Goldwin Smith, M.A." Canadian Monthly and National Review, Vol. VII, pp. 101–106.
• "Anglo-American Memories," New-York Tribune, 31 July 1910.
• "The Association and Mr. Goldwin Smith." In: A History of Canadian Journalism. Toronto: Murray Printing Co., 1908, pp. 76–82.
• Bell, Kenneth (1910). "Goldwin Smith as a Canadian," The Cornhill Magazine 29, New Series, pp. 239–251.
• Brown, R. Craig (1962). "Goldwin Smith and Anti‐imperialism," Canadian Historical Review 43 (2), pp. 93–105.
• Bryce, James (1914). "Goldwin Smith," The North American Review, Vol. 199, No. 701, pp. 513–527.
• Cooper, John James (1912). Goldwin Smith, D.C.L.; A Brief Account of his Life and Writings. Reading, Eng.: Poynder & Son.
• Dalberg-Acton, John Emerich Edward (1907). "Mr. Goldwin Smith's Irish History." In: The History of Freedom and Other Essays. London: Macmillan & Co., pp. 232–269.
• Gaffney, Patricia H. (1972). Goldwin Smith Bibliography, 1845–1913. Ithaca, N.Y.: Collection of Regional History and University Archives, John M. Olin Library.
• Gollancz, Hermann (1909). "Goldwin Smith's Essay 'On the Jewish Question'." In: Sermons and Addresses. London: Myers & Co., pp. 222–239.
• "Goldwin Smith, 'The Sage of the Grange'," The New York Times, 10 September 1905.
• "The Great Minds of America. I. Goldwin Smith," The North American Review, Vol. 186, No. 622, Sep., pp. 1–7.
• Gregory, W. D. (1910). "Goldwin Smith," The Outlook, Vol. 95, No. 17, pp. 950–959.
• Haultain, Arnold (1913). A Selection from Goldwin Smith's Correspondence. London: T. Werner Laurie.
• Haultain, Arnold (1913). "Why Goldwin Smith Came to America," The North American Review, Vol. 198, No. 696, pp. 688–697.
• Haultain, Arnold (1914). Goldwin Smith: His Life and Opinions. London: T. Werner Laurie.
• Hincks, Sir Francis (1881). "Canada and Mr. Goldwin Smith," The Contemporary Review 40, pp. 825–842.
• "History, Philosophy and Mr. Goldwin Smith," The North British Review, Vol. XXXVII, August 1862, pp. 1–34.
• Holland, Lionel R. (1888). Mr. Goldwin Smith and Canada. [S.l.: s.n.]
• Lang, Andrew (1900). "Scotland and Mr. Goldwin Smith," Blackwood's Magazine, Vol. CLXVII, pp. 541–550.
• Le Sueur, William Dawson (1882). "Mr Goldwin Smith on the 'Data of Ethics'," Popular Science Monthly 22, pp. 145–156.
• MacTavish, Newton (1910). "Goldwin Smith, the Sage of the Grange," Munsey's Magazine, Vol. XLIII, No. 5, pp. 680–683.
• Moses, Montrose J. (1910). "A Glimpse of Goldwin Smith," The New York Times, 18 June.
• "Mr. Goldwin Smith on the Study of History," The Westminster Review, No. 150, October 1861, pp. 157–180.
• Phillips, Paul T. (2002). The Controversialist: An Intellectual Life of Goldwin Smith. Westport, Conn.: Praeger.
• Spencer, Herbert (1882). "Professor Goldwin Smith as a Critic," The Popular Science Monthly 22 (1), pp. 18–20.
• Tollemache, Lionel A. (1911). "Jottings About Goldwin Smith." In: Nuts and Chestnuts. London: Edward Arnold, pp. 19–32.
• Trent, W.P. (1893). "Mr. Goldwin Smith on the United States," The Sewanee Review 2 (1), pp. 1–16.
• Wallace, Elisabeth (1954). "Goldwin Smith on England and America," The American Historical Review 59 (4), pp. 884–894.
• Wallace, Elisabeth (1954). "Goldwin Smith, Liberal," University of Toronto Quarterly 23, pp. 155–172.
• Wallace, Elisabeth (1954). "Goldwin Smith on History," The Journal of Modern History 26 (3), pp. 220–232.
• Wallace, Elisabeth (1957). Goldwin Smith: Victorian Liberal. University of Toronto Press.
• Wallace, Elisabeth (1969). The Grange and its Occupants: the Boultons and Goldwin Smith. Toronto: Education Dept., Art Gallery of Ontario.
• Wilson, Woodrow (1893). "Mr. Goldwin Smith's 'Views' on Our Political History," The Forum 16 (4), pp. 489–499.
• Underhill, Frank (1933). "Goldwin Smith," University of Toronto Quarterly 2 (3), pp. 285–309.
• Wolf, Lucien (1881). "A Jewish View of the Anti-Jewish Agitation," The Nineteenth Century 9, pp. 338–357.

External links

• Obituaries: New-York Tribune, The Dial
• Works by Goldwin Smith at Project Gutenberg
• Works by Goldwin Smith at Hathi Trust
• Works by Goldwin Smith at Europeana
• Works by Goldwin Smith at The Online Library of Liberty
• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: Goldwin Smith
• Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
• Goldwin Smith on War
• Goldwin's Myth
• Toronto's Historical Plaques: Goldwin Smith 1823–1910
• The St. George's Society and Mr. Goldwin Smith