Matthew Arnold

Saintsbury, George · 1933

Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Carol David, Ben Beasley and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Mr. Matthew Arnold, like other good men of our times, disliked the idea of being made the subject of a regular biography; and the only official and authoritative sources of information as to the details of his life are the _Letters_ published by his family, under the editorship of Mr G.W.E. Russell (2 vols., London, 1895)[1]. To these, therefore, it seems to be a duty to confine oneself, as far as such details are concerned, save as regards a very few additional facts which are public property. But very few more facts can really be wanted except by curiosity; for in the…

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