Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Taavi Kalju and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net [Transcriber's note: The inconsistent use of quotation marks in the original was retained in this etext.] [Illustration: Matthew Arnold _From a Photograph by Sarony_] Literary Lives MATTHEW ARNOLD BY G.W.E. RUSSELL _ILLUSTRATED_ NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1904 COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Published, March, 1904 TROW DIRECTORY PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY NEW YORK LITERARY LIVES Edited by Robertson Nicoll, LL.D. MATTHEW ARNOLD. By G.W.E. Russell. CARDINAL NEWMAN. By William Barry, D.D. MRS. GASKELL. By Flora Masson. JOHN BUNYAN. By W. Hale White. CHARLOTTE BRONTE. By Clement K. Shorter. R.M. HUTTON. By W. Robertson Nicoll. GOETHE. By Edward Dowden. HAZLITT. By Louise Imogen Guiney. Each Volume, Illustrated, $1.00, net OFFERED TO MATTHEW ARNOLD'S CHILDREN WITH AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE "OF THAT UNRETURNING DAY" "We see him wise, just, self-governed, tender, thankful, blameless, yet with all this agitated, stretching out his arms for something beyond--_tendentemque manus ripae ulterioris amore_."--_Essays in Criticism_. PREFACE It may be thought that some apology is needed for the production of yet another book about Matthew Arnold. If so, that apology is to be found in the fact that nothing has yet been written which covers exactly the ground assigned to me in the present volume. It was Arnold's express wish that he should not be made the subject of a Biography. This rendered it impossible to produce the sort of book by which an eminent man is usually commemorated--at once a history of his life, an estimate of his work, and an analysis of his character and opinions. But though a Biography was forbidden, Arnold's family felt sure that he would not have objected to the publication of a selection from his correspondence; and it became my happy task to collect, and in some sense to edit, the two volumes of his Letters which were published in 1895. Yet in reality my functions were little more than those of the collector and the annotator. Most of the Letters had been severely edited before they came into my hands, and the process was repeated when they were in proof.