[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.