New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-01
GLTuPSES OF MATTHEW ARNOLD.
EDWARD EVERETT HALws "REMINISCENCES.

FDwARD EVERETT HALfS REMINISCENCEs
From Harpcrs Bazar
Ills fathers portrait hangs opposite me. it has
hung opposite me In my work for MY wears: was
me with a impalse n started all the thoughtful
young and women of my time l told Matthew
Arnold how long had had this picture. and Re was
very plea ant in memories of Rugby and his father
With him my acquaintance began In a curious way.
dear Atlantic what thought rattle, snobbIsh ar
tice. That IS 10 say, IL was one OF those articles,
dear reader, of which you and read SO many, IN
which caliow young eounrymcn of ours who have no,
looked I'VE mile, beyond the nest in the, orchard
about that great America which reads everything
and attempts sysryhng and OF which or these ,b abor
who is 10 this moment unknown TO me: ] wrote an
other article, and told him what was wha, In no
time, TO many friends, Mr towels and Mr. James
among the rest, and by way of being quite fair. TO
lea was rather large subject and that before they
wrote much more about 4, they had better know IL
Well. somebody. i do not know who, sent my little
Srs,e re D H' in The Nineteenth Century believe
The article was publ he'd when was In London, ana
bcpp O ofF the journal and laid It IN my Gladstone
] found Paris and Seville aud Madrid and the Al
of The magazine nor read word OF It when. months
after, this same dear Eowker asked me in London Il
the bottom of the bag and there was the reply simply
that he knew much more Of America than did, or
anybody else could. But this was said very nicely
When he came here, two years after, and met me,
yised him, and that gave him the same advice sun.
lie was wholly open to It now, and quite wllng TO
confess they all are, that, "a poor Lord salisbury
says they have not big enough map when they read
OF ana Pya nS ana sw a had not known be-
fore. In the first place. he did not know how TO
speak in public when he came here. The first night
he in public he found he did not know how, ana
diligently carefully and successfully he set hlnscn
to two hundred and fifty colleges 10 deliver IN each Of
them the first lecture which Is practically sermon
pure" / would do so. ! wish l could done it.
As II happened / followed close upon him in one
had many chance TO see how tightly and well he
affected many bearer who viii remember his pres
wonder 4 it viii do to tell the story OF his
drcsscoat. Ii shows well how these dear English
cousins Of ours make mistakes II they possibly can.
And dear Matthew Arnold was really not to blame.
staying at the house OF ThcmistolleS, most amablc
and best bred OF dplomatists and presidents Arnold
in Boothia Felix, most lovely Of peninsulas. Arnold
downstairs for the lecture IN a dress-coa his
%ss most Kind S' Dear Mr. Arnold he said am
not II The hall Will be warm. You Will really
mind II You wear sST ffocR Coat, So Mr. Arnold
changed his costume. What followed Why. of
sicigh.rde by She side of lsoolk man had
before, with Mcpherson driving. they came t. the
named Clarendon. is II not OF course he went Just
he washad not Themistocles said dress was OF no
Lady Fauntleroy, who is only not the duchess OF
Sutherland opened her palace at Clarendon Tor ri tEe
government of the State-a party OF the raVest Inc
grandest and the best OF course poor MI. Arnold
had to go. accounted as he was" And of course
The Clarendon Argus Of the next day said he came
I'm the shirt In which he had travelled for week. Ana
Of course this was not true
He always spoke TO me in the pleasantcst ways OF
his American travel. lie confessed. as he confessed
atcrwsid In print, thai every day he learned some
thing which worth learning
The oiher Arnold, Edwin Arnold. do not Know.
though believe Of counsel about the first Aneri-
Tan reprint of The Light of Asia" by our good friends
Roberts Brothers This is one Of those books which
made It's fame in America, and which America taught
England how TO enjoy. For the encouragement OF
Journalists as are all of their craft let me say
that Arnoh's fathcrin-law. Mr. Claiming told me
that Arnold wrote that marvellous poem in one sum-
mer while doing his ocular daily work on The
Daily News" am bold enough 10 say that the poem
probably owes its go"-what believe they call its
elan-tO being written I'm this fashion though that is
horrible thing to say to young authors.
] SHALL by thr way. have nc other chance TO say IN
print thai have traced all but Of the stories In
The Light Of Asia' TO their originals. either In The
Wheel OF ne Law in other Buddhist authorities,
even back the queer medieval Latin novel to which
saint Of the Church of Rome. But one. the story OF
been Mr. Arnnlds addition 1t is pure Christianity.
and such differs in its essence from pure buddhism
wonder II all readers of this generation know what
Cousin said OF Buddhism in his lectures: " At this
point should speak Of Buddhism. ] do not. because
] know nothing Of them. We Will proceed to"-so ard
This was In a public course in Paris sixty years ago
No woman in Boston would dare say quite that thing
now.