From E. A. SONNENSCHEIN, M.A., late Scholar of University PAGE 15 From CONTEMPORARIES in Glasgow University, and MEMBERS of the Witenagemote Philosophical Society, 16 From STUDENTS of the University of Glasgow preparing for 18 TESTIMONIALS. From the VERY REV. JOHN CAIRD, D.D., Principal and Chancellor of the University of Glasgow. UNIVERSITY OF Glasgow, MR. HENRY JONES, M.A., Clark Fellow in this University, has been a remarkably successful and distinguished student during his whole College course. He gained high honours in almost all the classes of the Faculty of Arts, and was especially distinguished in those of Philosophy and English Literature. His success in the competition for the Clark Fellowship in Philosophy was all the more creditable to him, that his competitors were not only very distinguished students, but men older than himself, and of longer standing at College. MR. JONES is a man of great natural ability and force of character; an acute thinker, and a clear and vigorous writer; and by wide reading and general culture he has done his best to develop his natural endowments. He has had considerable experience in teaching and lecturing, and has shown no little aptitude for such work. During the last summer vacation he has conducted two classes, one of a preparatory kind, and the other for more advanced students in Philosophy; and in both he has done excellent work. I believe him to be a thoroughly conscientious and highprincipled man, and one who would devote himself with untiring application to the duties of any situation to which he may be appointed. In so far as the qualities I have named are in request for the position to which he now aspires, I am persuaded that the Patrons will find few, if any, more eligible candidates. JOHN CAIRD. From the REV. LEWIS EDWARDS, D.D., Principal of Bala College, North Wales. MR. HENRY JONES is well known to his friends as a sound scholar, and especially as a deep thinker on all the subjects that come in under what is commonly called Moral Philosophy. He has read, and studied profoundly, the best philosophers of Greece and Germany, not neglecting those of England and Scotland; but he is not the blind follower of any authors, however popular. On the contrary, he has opinions of his own, which he has arrived at by hard study, but without aiming at originality for its own sake; and I have reason to believe that in course of time he will make himself known as a writer, reflecting honour on any college with which he may be connected. Meanwhile, he cannot fail to gain the esteem, and promote the advancement, of those who may attend his lectures; for he has the gift of lucid exposition, and of throwing his whole soul into the work, and so imparting to the minds of others that enthusiasm which fills his own. LEWIS EDWARDS. October 18, 1881. From EDWARD CAIRD, M.A. Oxon., LL.D., Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow, late Fellow and Tutor of Merton College, Oxford. UNIVERSITY Of Glasgow, October 18, 1881. MR. HENRY JONES has been well known to me for a He was one of the best students of his number of years. time in the University of Glasgow. After gaining many distinctions in the Philosophical and Literary classes, he finished his course by graduating with highest honours in Philosophy, and by gaining the Clark Philosophical Fellowship, the highest reward which the University has to bestow on its graduates in Arts. Since taking this Fellowship, he has been my Assistant for three years, and has done much good work for me in examining and criticising the essays and papers of students. During the time I have been Professor, I have had few pupils who have shown equal capacity of thinking, and still fewer who have been able to express their thoughts with such clearness and literary power. Sometimes his writing shows real originality-always it has the freshness and vigour of a mind that looks at things for itself. His main studies have hitherto been in Philosophy, but he has also a firm grasp of the principles of Political Economy. In time I should expect from him valuable contributions to Philosophy, especially on questions of social morality, to which he has given much thought. I believe, however, from his fervid and sympathetic temperament, that the work in which he will show his highest powers is that of a teacher. Of no one, indeed, whom I have taught could I say with so much confidence that he is a born teacher. He has had already considerable experience, both as my assistant and otherwise. During last summer he taught two classes, one for advanced students, and another for those commencing their studies in Philosophy: and in both I know that he thoroughly excited the interest of his pupils, several of whom have spoken to me with gratitude of his instruction. MR. JONES is a man in whose truthfulness and devotion to duty I have complete trust; and I feel certain that, if he were appointed Professor of Philosophy and Political Economy in Liverpool, those who elected him would never have reason to repent of their choice. EDWARD CAIRD. From JOHN VEITCH, ESQ., LL.D., Professor of Logic and Rhetoric in the University of Glasgow. THE LOANING, Peebles, MR. HENRY JONES, who is a candidate for the Chair of Logic, Mental and Moral Philosophy, and Political Economy in University College, Liverpool, is well known to me as a very distinguished student of Mental Philosophy. His career at the University of Glasgow was marked by great success in that department; and since he ceased to be a student at College, he has very assiduously continued his reading and study in the branches of Mental and Moral Science. He has, besides, shown himself well able to teach, in the various classes which he has conducted in connection with the University of Glasgow. I consider him to be remarkably well fitted to discharge the duties of the Professorship which he now seeks. J. VEITCH. |