The life and letters of Benjamin Jowett, M. A., master of Balliol college, Oxford.

PREFACE
PROFESSOR JOWETT'S life naturally falls into two
sections-the period before the Mastership, and the
Mastership. The first of these volumes contains the first
period, and is the work of Professor Campbell; in the
second, I have written the story of the Mastership; and
I am responsible for the whole. The plan followed in
both volumes is of course the same. A few letters have
been worked into the narrative; others, far too numerous
to be used in such a manner, but of a personal character,
have been appended to the chapters according to their
dates, and thus form as it were illustrations of the text,
giving in Jowett's own words his thoughts and feelings
at the time. In the second period the material was to
some extent different from that in the first, for Jowett's
personal memoranda became far more numerous as he
grew older, and from these, as in some respects the truest
record of his life, it was necessary to draw largely. The
second volume is also somewhat more annalistic than
1 A number of very valuable Lansdowne, and others, could not
letters on more general topics, to be included in the Life, and are
Sir R. B. D. Morier, the Marquis of reserved for a separate volume.
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