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  OXFORD AND HER COLLEGES

  [Illustration]




  [Illustration: RADCLIFFE LIBRARY.]




  OXFORD
  AND HER COLLEGES

  A View from the Radcliffe Library

  BY
  GOLDWIN SMITH, D.C.L.

  AUTHOR OF "THE UNITED STATES: AN OUTLINE OF
  POLITICAL HISTORY," ETC.

  WITH ILLUSTRATIONS REPRODUCED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS

  New York
  MACMILLAN AND CO.
  AND LONDON
  1895

  _All rights reserved_




  COPYRIGHT, 1893,
  BY MACMILLAN AND CO.

  Norwood Press:
  J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith.
  Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.




PREFACE.


The writer has seldom enjoyed himself more than in showing an American
friend over Oxford. He has felt something of the same enjoyment in
preparing, with the hope of interesting some American visitors, this
outline of the history of the University and her Colleges. He would
gladly believe that Oxford and Cambridge, having now, by emancipation
and reform, been reunited to the nation, may also be reunited to the
race; and that to them, not less than to the Universities of Germany,
the eyes of Americans desirous of studying at a European as well as at
an American University may henceforth be turned.

It was once the writer's duty, in the service of a Royal Commission of
Inquiry, to make himself well acquainted with the archives of the
University and its Colleges. But he has also availed himself of a number
of recent publications, such as the series of the Oxford Historical
Society, the history of the University by Mr. Maxwell Lyte