_BY THE SAME AUTHOR_ VILLA RUBEIN, and Other Stories THE ISLAND PHARISEES THE MAN OF PROPERTY THE COUNTRY HOUSE FRATERNITY THE PATRICIAN THE DARK FLOWER THE FREELANDS BEYOND FIVE TALES SAINT’S PROGRESS * * * * * A COMMENTARY A MOTLEY THE INN OF TRANQUILLITY THE LITTLE MAN, and Other Satires A SHEAF ANOTHER SHEAF ADDRESSES IN AMERICA: 1919 * * * * * PLAYS: FIRST SERIES _and Separately_ THE SILVER BOX JOY STRIFE PLAYS: SECOND SERIES _and Separately_ THE ELDEST SON THE LITTLE DREAM JUSTICE PLAYS: THIRD SERIES _and Separately_ THE FUGITIVE THE PIGEON THE MOB A BIT O’ LOVE * * * * * MOODS, SONGS, AND DOGGERELS MEMORIES. Illustrated ADDRESSES IN AMERICA 1919 [Illustration: _From a photograph, copyright, 1919, by Eugene Hutchinson._ John Galsworthy] ADDRESSES IN AMERICA 1919 BY JOHN GALSWORTHY NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1919 COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS Published August, 1919 [Illustration] CONTENTS PAGE I. AT THE LOWELL CENTENARY 1 II. AMERICAN AND BRITON 11 III. FROM A SPEECH AT THE LOTUS CLUB, NEW YORK 45 IV. FROM A SPEECH TO THE SOCIETY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, NEW YORK 51 V. ADDRESS AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 54 VI. TO THE LEAGUE OF POLITICAL EDUCATION, NEW YORK 67 VII. TALKING AT LARGE 73 ADDRESSES IN AMERICA 1919 I AT THE LOWELL CENTENARY We celebrate to-night the memory of a great man of Letters. What strikes me most about that glorious group of New England writers――Emerson and Longfellow, Hawthorne, Whittier, Thoreau, Motley, Holmes, and Lowell――is a certain measure and magnanimity. They were rare men and fine writers, of a temper simple and unafraid.