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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Goldwin Smith (1823–1910)

Smith, Goldwin. An eminent liberal, essayist, and educator, who resided in Canada; born in Reading, England, Aug. 13, 1823; died at Toronto, June 10, 1910. In 1868 he was professor of English history at Cornell University. In 1871 he removed to Toronto. His works include ‘The Relations between America and England’; ‘The Political Destiny of Canada’; ‘Irish History and the Irish Question’; ‘Labor and Capital’; ‘Guesses at the Riddle of Existence’; ‘No Refuge but in Truth’ (1908). (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).