The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-20
MATTHEW ARNOLD DEAD.
The Great Scholar and Writer Suddenly
Passes Away eart-Disease the Cause
of His Demise.

The Great Scholar and Writer Suddenly
Passes Away-Heart-Diseas the Cause
of His Demise.
| LONDON, April 17-Mr. Matthew Arnold.
the noGed poet scholar and critic, whose
recent article on Civilization in the United
States" attracted much attention, died sud
denly Sunday in Liverpool from heart dis
ease.
Mr. Arnold arrived in Liverpool on Satur-
day to meet his daughter, who was on her
way to England from New York on the
steamer Aurania
Sunday morning he WIS apparently well.
He attended the Presby 5srian church, and
after luncheon went out for walk with
Mrs. Arnold He was still in high spirits
Soon after leaving the house he suddenly
fell forward and never afterward spoke
The physicians poured spirits down
his throat, but he never rallied at
all and died within four minutes after be-
ing taken indoors The doctors have
given certificate that Mr. Arnold's death
was due to heart disease.
The funeral OF Mr.. Arnold has been fixed
for next Thursday The interment will be
at Laleham. near StaineS
THE works of Matthew Arnold have covered
wide diversity of subjects. and have achieved
spoken. He was the eldest son of the
late Rev. Thomas Arnold d. D., Head
Master of Rugby being born at Late
ham, near Staines, Eng, December "a
1922. He was educated at Winches-
ter, Rugby and Oxford. He graduated from
Oxford in 1914, with honors having one year
previously won the Newdigate prize for English
verse Three years later he became private
secretary to the late Lord Lansdowne, whom
he served in that capacity until his mar
rage in 1851 with the daughter of JUS
tee Wightman, when he was appointed
lay Inspectors of Schools under the Committee
of Council of Education. His first literary fame
was earned in 1913 when the ''Strayed Revelier
and Other POEMS" appeared. This work was
followed In the next half-doZen years by work of
a severely classical order in the form OF poems
and tragedies. Mr.. Arnold was elected Pro
fessor of Poetry at Oxford in 1857, and in 1861
published three lectures On Translator of
Homer" which he had delivered before the
University of Oxford. He also published in this
year descriptions of the educational systems of
France, Germany and Holland Mr.. Arnold
collected and published in 1865 number of his
contributions in prose and verse to the period
icaI literature, under the title of Essays
in Criticism" Among the works published
by him in subsequent years have been
Lectures on the Study of Celtic Lit
erature;' New Poems" QS6S); "Cult-
ure and Anarchy" GS69; "St. Paul
and Professionalism" dS7W; friendships Gar
land QS71); in 1878 Literature and Dogma;
an Essay Toward a Better Apprehension of the
Bible" and in 1877 Lost Essays on Church and
Religion" In 1869 Mr.. Arnold received the
honorary degree of Doctor of Laws for the
University of Ednburg, and in 1870 from the
University of Oxford. -Four or five years
later the King of Italy conferred on HIM the
order of Commander of the Crown of Italy, in
recognition of his tuition of the young D Ike of
Genoa, who resided with his family viii pur-
suing his studies in England
In late years Mr.. Arnold has provoked unfa-
vorable comment and criticism from his contem-
porares in this country by reason of his writ
ings on America, some of which were perhaps
not in the best of taste, considering the court
esy with which he was received and tres ted by
distinguished people here.