The first collected edition of Arnold's poems was published in 1869 in
two volumes, the first consisting of _Narrative and Elegiac Poems_,
and the second of _Dramatic and Lyric Poems_. Other editions appeared
in 1877, 1881; a library edition (3 vols., 1885); a one-volume reprint
of the poems printed in the library edition with one or two additions
(1890). Publications by Matthew Arnold not mentioned in the foregoing
article include: _England and the Italian Question_ (1859), a
pamphlet; _A French Eton; or, Middle Class Education and the State_
(1864); _Higher Schools and Universities in Germany_ (1874), a partial
reprint from _Schools and Universities on the Continent_ (1868); _A
Bible Reading for Schools; The Great Prophecy of Israel's
Restoration_, an arrangement of _Isaiah_, chs. xl.-lxvi. (1872),
republished with additions and varying titles in 1875 and 1883; an
edition of the _Six Chief Lives from Johnson's Lives of the Poets_
(1878); editions of the _Poems of Wordsworth_ (1879), and the _Poetry
of Byron_ (1881), for the Golden Treasury Series, with prefatory
essays reprinted in the second series of _Essays in Criticism_; an
edition of _Letters, Speeches and Tracts on Irish Affairs by Edmund
Burke_ (1881); and many contributions to periodical literature. _The
Letters of Matthew Arnold_ (1848-1888) were collected and arranged by
George W.E. Russell in 1895, reprinted 1901. _Matthew Arnold's Note
Books, with a Preface by the Hon. Mrs Wodehouse_, appeared in 1902. A
complete and uniform edition of _The Works of Matthew Arnold_ (15
vols., 1904-1905) includes the letters as edited by Mr Russell. Vol.
iii. contains a complete bibliography of his works, many of the early
editions of which are very valuable, by Mr T.B. Smart, who published a
separate bibliography in 1892. A valuable note on the rather
complicated subject of Arnold's bibliography is given by Mr H. Buxton
Forman in Arnold's _Poems, Narrative, Elegiac and Lyric_ (Temple
Classics, 1900).
It was Arnold's expressed desire that his biography should not be
written, and before his letters were published they underwent
considerable editing at the hands of his family. There are, however,
monographs on Matthew Arnold (1899) in _Modern English Writers_ by
Prof. Saintsbury, and by Mr H.W. Paul (1902), in the English Men of
Letters Series. These two works are supplemented by Mr G.W.E. Russell,
who, as the editor of Arnold's letters, is in a sense the official
biographer, in _Matthew Arnold_ (1904, Literary Lives Series). There
are also studies of Arnold in Mr J.M. Robertson's _Modern Humanists_
(1891), and in W.H. Hudson's _Studies in Interpretation_ (1896), in
Sir J.G. Fitch's _Thomas and Matthew Arnold_ (1897), and a review of
some of the works above mentioned in the _Quarterly_ for January 1905
by T.H. Warren. (T. W.-D.; J. G. F.)
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