The Perspective of Biography (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The English Association treats its presidents generously. It asks nothing of them during their year Of service save a presidential address. And it is the peculiar rule Of the Association that the president shall render this sole Official tribute not on assuming his Office but on quitting it. The presidential address is of the nature of a swan song it celebrates a presidential demise.

In the absence Of any earlier opportunity I now assure you, albeit with my latest presidential breath, Of the value which I set on the honour you did me a year ago by electing me your President. Thereby you constituted me a small link in a chain Of persons highly distinguished in very varied walks Of life. Lord Crewe, my pre decessor in the presidential chair, combines with strong literary predilections a long and varied experience Of political responsi bilities. My successor, Mr. Asquith, whom you have elected a few minutes ago, filled for an exceptionally long period, the highest and most responsible Of all Offices Of State. At the same time, amid all his manifold and conspicuous activities, legal as well as political, Mr. Asquith has amply testified to an inborn faith in the power of literature to comfort, to stimulate, and to guide. NO choice, if I may venture to say so, is better calculated to advance the interests of the Association, which I believe to be closely identified with those of the nation at large.

It would ill beseem me to compare myself with the last or the next occupant of this post of President, but I cannot forbear to mention one point Of difference between their connexion with this Association and my own.

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