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May 31, 1911.
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THE ELON
philosophic qualities necessary to a great
Historian.
He wrote a “History of England from
the i all of \V'oolsey to the Defeat of the
Aimada,” “The English in Ireland in the
Eighteenth Century,” “Short Studitti on
Great Subjects,” “Caesar,” “Oceana,”
“The Two Chiefs of Dunbay,” “Life of
Lord Beaconstield. ” As extcutor of Car
lyle he published “Life of Thomas Car
lyle,” and “Reminiscences of Carlyle.”
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JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE.
By Virgie Beale.
James Anthony Froude, an English his
torian and essayist, was bom April 23rd,
1818 and died October 20th, 1894. His
father was a clergyman, and the son was
sent to W€«tminster School and to Oriel
College, Oxford. In 1842 he became a fel
low of Exeter and two years later he
was ordained a deacon; an office which
he did not fonnally lay down until many
^eais later; although his earliest publica
tions; “Shadow of Clouds” and “Neme
sis of Faith,” showed that he had come
to hold views hardly in accordance with
the character of a docile and unreasoning
neophyte.
In 1872 he lectured in the United States
on the relation between Ireland and En
gland. In 1874 he was sent on a mission
to the Cape of Good Hope. He after
ward went to Australia and the West In-
des. In 1892 he was elected regius pro
fessor of modem history at Oriel College,
Oxford, as a successor of Freeman.
Froude stands before the English read
ing public prominent in three characteris
tics: first, as a technical prose artist, in
which regard he is entitled to be classed
with Ruskin, Newman and Pater; second,
as a historian of the modern school; third,
as the most clear-sighted and broad-mind-
ed of those whose position near the center
of the Oxford movement and intimacy with
the actors gave them an insight into its
inner nature.
Froude was sometimes criticised for
writing history under the influence of per
sonal feeling. It would be difficult in
deed to se« how a readable history could
be written except by one wlio at least
takes an interest in the story. That
Frounde was an absolutely perfect histo
rian no one could claim; for he was too
intensely human to be perfect. It may be
admitted how-ever, that Froude possessed
a larger share of the artistic than of the
MATTHEW ARNOLD.
By Pearle Fogleman.
Matthew Arnold was born at Laleham,
in the Thames valley, Decemben 24, 1822.
His father, the gieatest of English head
masters, Dr. Thomas Arnold, transmittetl
to this eldest son more of the qualities
which made Arnold of Rugby so influen
tial and so famous than the son’s contem
poraries would have allowed. Dr. Arnold
was a fearless liberal; so was the son.
Both were uncompiomising in their ideals
of conduct, of peiisonal purity, and in their
love of truth, their hati’ed of a lie. How
keenly the son appreciated his father’s
noble nature can be read in the beautiful
lines of “Rugby Chapel.”
In 1828 Thomas Arnold was elected
he-ad-master of Rugby, and moved thither
with his family; but two yeaiis later Mat
thew was sent back to Laleham as a pupil
of the Rev. Mr. Bucklard, an uncle, and
remained there until 1836, when he went
to Winchester. After a year, he entered
Rugby, living with his fathr in the school-
house. Readers of “Tom Biown’s School-
Days” will recall the scene when Tom is
sent to the doctor’s rooms and finds that
awful person in the familiar play with the
children, a picture drawn from life. We
hear of a poem, “Alaric at Rome,” win
ning a school piize for the boy of seven
teen; and the next year, 1841, after ob
taining a classical scholarship at Balliol
College, Ozford, and then a “school exhi
bition,” he goes into residence in the' uni
versity which he loved so tenderly and
scolded w’ith such amiable persistence.
Matthew Arnold is tlie poet of Oxford.
His two poems, “Thyrsis,” a monody on
the death of his friend, Arthur Hugh
Clough, and tlie “Scholar—Gypsy,’'
abound in allusions to “that sweet city
with her dreaming spipes. ” In 1842 he
gained the Hertford scholarship, in 1843
the Newdigate prize for a poem on Crom
well, and in March, 1845, he was elected
Fellow of Oiiel College. In 1847 Arnold
became private secretary to Lord Lans-
downe, a member of the English govern
ment. “The Strayed Reveller and Other
Poems” appeared in 1849 in an edition
of five hundred copies, of which few were
sold. In 1852 he published “Empedocles
on Etna, and Other Poems,” but again few
copies weie sold, and the edition was
withdrawn. The yeari before, he had been
appointed inspector of schools under gov
ernment, and was thus enabled to set up
a household. June 10, 1851, he married
Frances Lucy, daughter of Sir William
Wightman, a judge of Court of Queen’s
Bench. The union was one of happiness
and helpfulness.
Of his three main activities, poetry oc
cupied his younger manhood, social and
religious reform, later days, and literary
criticism his entire maturity. In 1853 ap
peared “Poems, by Matthew Arnold”
which contained “Sohrab and Rustum.”
It is not too much if one calls the preface
to this collection the beginning of a new
epoch in English criticism. In 1855'came
out a second series of poems, of which
the most notable was “Bolder Dead.” In
1857 he w'as elected Professor of Poetry
at Oxford; and the next year he published
his “Merope” as a kind of manifesto of
his poetical creed. But it w’as criticism
in which Arnold was to make his main ap
peal to the public. His Oxford lectures
“On Translating Homer,” were published
in 1861, and led to considerable contro
versy. If not a popular author, he was
now one of the best known men of letters
in England. He was now, since 1858, liv
ing in London, and the old monotony of
provincial visits was further broken by
a long tour on the continent. A’tides
in magazines, a collection of lectures such
as the “Study of Celtic Literature,” an
occasional pamphlet like his England and
the Italian Question,” revision of his po
ems, and the hard round of his profession
al duties, fill up these years. The family
moved to Harrow, so as to be near the
scliool; and here they lived until 1873,
when they moved to Cobham, which was
Arnold’s home for the next fifteen years,
until his death.
His “Friendship’s Garland,” 1871, is
one of the most successful of his works,
and satirizes that object of Arnold’s keen
est criticism, the great middle class of
England, the Philistines, with an almost
exuberant humor. He was naw regarded
as the first literary critic of his age and
country, although the public was not in
clined to rate his religious contributions
as important. Many of his friends, even,
thought this work a waste of time, and
mourned for the poetry that he mig)t have
produced. A leading article in the “Ath
enaeum” seriously considered his claims
Id the title of best English poet, placing
him in some respects ahead of Tennyson
and Browning. He did excellent service
to the cause of poetry in general by writ
ing the introduction to Ward’s collection
of English poets, and by publishing selec
tions from Wordsvforth and from Byron.
In 1833 Gladstone assigned him a pension
of £250 from the literary fund, and the
same winter he visited Ameiica to give a
course of lectures. The newspapers mads
gentle fun of his manner, and there was
nothing popular in the course, but it won
many new friends for him, and he earned
a fair amount of money.
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