New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-17
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MATTHEW ARNOLD DEAD.
DYING SUDDENLY OF HEART DISEASE.
HE ExERTED HIMSELF VIOLENTLY TRYING
TO lump RAILING-HtS DAUGHTER
REACHES LIVERPOOL ON THE

H.t AUGANIA AN HOUR AfItK
Ills DEATH.
f,oSpo~. April l6.-Matthew Arnold, the noted
ooet, scholar and critic, whose recent article on
aCivilization in the United States attracted
much attention, died suddenly yesterday in Liv-
crpool of heart disease. Mr.. Arnold arrived In
Liverpool on Saturday to meet his daughter, who
vas on her way to England from New-York on
the steamer Aurania. He stayed - the Dlneic
with his sister, Mrs Crapper.
During the evening he was in exuberant splrits'
r., took long walk, and tried to clear raining
near the house by jump lie failed ou' again
made the attempt. taking running jump ana sue
cceded. No i'll results appeared at the moment.
NJ. Arnold knew he suffered from disease OF the
heart, and Dr. Sir Andrew Clark had warned him
against any sudden exertion-
Yesterday morning he was apparently We'll nc
attended the Presbyterian Church and after lunch
eon went out for walk with Mrs. Arnoio'
He was still in high spirits. Soon after leaving
the house he suddenly fell forward and never
aftcrward smoke. lis daughter arrived at
Liverpool an hour after his death. NO inquesO
viii be necessary.
Immediately after Mr.. ArnolI fell he was car
ried into the house Of doctor near By. lie was
..,u hoo4hirr lint WIS unconscious The
physician poured spirits down his throat nut
he never rallied at all and died within four
minutes after being taken indoors. The doctors
have given q certificate that his death was due
TO heart disease
The funeral has lecn fixed for Thursday next.
Tie intc-nent will be at Laleham, near Stalnes
Ills LIFE AND HIS WORK.
Matthew Arnold the eldest son OF that beet anc
most famous of schooltcachers, Dr. Arnold OF Rugby
lie was born 1922 at Laleham near Staines, where
n father was living in retirement after ordination and
for he rtniVp
wss the daughter of clergyman, tho Rev. John
peurosc When no was in his sixth year his father
te anne Master OF Rugby, having virtually been nomi
mated for that important post by DR.. HAWKINS VINO
hal been impressed with his robust traits OF charac
e, and predicted that he would change the face OF
naicaton all through the public schools OF England
When Dr. Arnold finished his fework in 1872, his son
bsi already given promise of brilliant career, having
mide q good record at Winchester, written prize
poem at Rugby and won scholarship at Balhoi COL
iezc, oxford. The scholarships OF this college had
been thrown open general competition, and were the
most cons picuous honors which ambitious boys IRON
the public schools could carry of on their entrance
to the universities Principal Sharp. himself gradu
ate of that hard working college, has paid poetic
tribute to the English boys who won the Baiiioi
scholarships that day, and described the poet as
awide- welcomed for fathers fame" and chanting
with jaunty air, great words OF Goethe and Beranger
The Master Of Baol then Dr. jenkins, an educator
utterly unlike Dr. Arnold, lacking sympathetic fNoling
fo' young men, and harsh and rigorous In discipline,
yet having the faculty whal Of getting WORK out OF
students at time when the university worlo was q
play ground rather than apprentice shop In letters
and science. Matthew Arnold was q man after Els
own heart, a reader, thinker and worker, who
cared little the trophies of the crcketground and
river. Like Dean Stanley and Mr. Ruslo, he won
The Ncwdgate prize for after his fathers
death, and after being graduated with high honors
was elected Fellow Of Orel College.
x.a-.r,oc+ had r,es~d into f4e final
stage when Mr. Arnold entered the University and tho
r was heavy with the fumes of theological contro-
ycrsy Keble's Christian Year." redolent OF Roman
devotional sentiment, had been followed by Dr. New
pian's sermons at ST. Mary's, the Tracts Tor the
1vmess the Library of the Fathers" the fierce con-
test over Dr. Hampdens appointment to the theo-
logical chair the University, the retirement OF Dr.
Newman to Llttlemore and the Exodus to Rome In
is43, when Mr.. Arnold carried Off the Newdgate
prize "Tract Ninety" had been published, and DIR.
Newman, while still protesting against the charge OF
attempting to Romantic the English Church, was pre-
pairing to follow Lockhart and other friends whom
he had strongly Influenced into the Roman commun-
lon. In the controversies which had
ragged ct fever heat from the year OF
his appointment Master of Rugby DR.. hnoia
had taken a conspicuous part, vehementiy
opposing the "Oxford Malignants,' as he termed the
followers Of Newman and Pusey. His son might
naturally have been expected to interest himself IN
this debate which was conducted with such passion
and rancor, but happily his heart was not stirred oy
The storm that passing over Oxford. ono OF MS
intimate friends Arthur Hugh Clough, was sorely per-
picked over what going on, and made desperate
efforts to keep pace with the giants who werc making
the controversial rounds with firm tread and arrogant
nien. He wondered that Arnold could be SO indncr-
ent as be seemed TO all thai was agtatng the great
and the little minds of the University. Ho was IN
ciined to scoI his friend for finding pleasure IN
ramblcs in the beautiful country around Oxford and
IN he hing
rural retreats Possibly Arnold even then had an IN
slncve feeling that there neither sweetness nor
light In tho theological wranging OF that tme' Ger
A.iny 1t was fortunate that the controversial mood
which came upon him at a later period did not CLOUD
ais earlier days Those tranquil excursions OF which
cough complained brought him into close communion
18th nature and inspired him with poetic feeling The
rect impress of his Oxford ranblcs is found in OF
= S most beautiful poems, The Scholar Gypsy" and
Il his contains "reminiscences OF
tiis early wooing Of the rustic Fan
during that period Of acrimonious contro-
versy. Andrew Lang makes these remarks
these Bailio experiences The mark of his fathers
influences abidcs in his attachment to the ancient and
beautiful Established Church. The spirit Of the under
graduate who by means allowed speculation to
sober his spirit of enjoyment survives In the wit and
high spirits which make Mr.. Arnolds writings on tho
clogy almost readable the Provincial Letters of
Pascal Even in his earliest years the poet and critic
was absorbing the experience testing the ideas, which
arc the matter of his own Writings
From 1647 to 1851 Mr.. Arnold acted as private
secretary to tho late Lord Lansdowno. Then began
his professional career as educator. he was APP
pointed Lay Inspector of Schools under the Committee
of Council on Education Taking active part in tho
creation of a national system Of education, he
sent the Continent to investigate the schools
VI France, Germany and Holland In 1866 he made a
similar excursion 10 obtain information respecting
schools for the middle and higher classes Tho re-
suits OF his observations during these two Journeys
we're analysed in volume the schools and universi
ties Of tho Continent, published in 1863 He retained
his official position until 1856, when he abandoned his
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