The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-05-01

that in order to be properly done would have required a lifetime. Yet what he wrote produced an effect, in England at volume, and he was allowed to say things that would have given deep off, fence if coming from other lips.
 Arnold was delightful man to argue with, not that he could easily be convinced that he was wrong, but he never lost his temper and in the most patronizing way he would generally end by "Yes, yes! my good fellow, you are quite right, but you see, my view of the matter Is different, and I have little doubt 1t is the true one!" This went so far that even the simplest facts failed to produce any impression on him.
 We had a ong-standing feud about poetry To me the difference between poetry and prose was one of form only. I always held that the same things that are said in prose could be said in poe try, and vice versa, and I often quoted Goethe's saying that the best test of poetry was whether 1t would bear translation into prose or into a foreign language. To all that, even to Goethe's words, Arnold demurred. Poetry to him was a thing by itself, mot an art like other arts" but, as he grandly called it. genius"
 He once had a great triumph over me An American gentleman, who brought out a "Collection of the Por- traits Of the Hundred Greatest Men," divided them into eight classes, and the first class was assigned to poetry, the second to art, the third to religion, the fourth to philosophy, the fifth to history, the sixth to science, the sev- enth to politics, the eighth to industry. Arnold was asked to write the intro duction to the first volume, H. Taine to the second, myself and Renan to the third Noah Porter to the fourth, Dean Stanley to the fifth, Helmholtz to the sixth, Froude to the seventh, John Fiske to the eighth.
 I do not know whether Arnold had anything to do with suggesting this di- vision of Omne Scibile into eight class es; anyhow he did not allow the op- portunity to pass to assert the superb ority of poetry over every other branch of mans intellectual activity. "The men," he began, "who are the flower and glory of our race are to pass here before us, the highest manifestations whether on this line or that of the force which stirs in every one of us-the chief poets, religious founders, philoso- | phers, historians, scholars, orators, warriors, statesmen, voyagers, leaders | in mechanical invention and industry, 1 who have appeared among mankind. And the poets are to pass first. Why? | Because of the various modes of mani l festation through which the human | spirit pours it's force theirs is the most | adequate and happy"
 | There certainly was great charm in Arnold, even though he could be very | patronizing. But there was in all he l said a kind of understood though sell | dom expressed sadness, as if to say 'It will soon be all over; don't let us | get angry; we are all very good fel- | loWs,' etc. He knew for years that | though he was strong and looked very young for his age, the thread of his life might snap at any moment. And so il did-felix opportunitate mortis. Not | long before his death he met Browninp on the steps of the Athenaeum. He | felt i'll, and in taking leave of Brown 1 ing he hinted that they might never
 meet again. Browning was profuse ir his protestations, and Arnold, on turn. 1 ing away, said in his airy way, Now
 one promise, Browning-plea no
 more than ten lines" Browning un.
 derstood, and went away with sol
 emn smile
 Ruskin often came to spend a few
 days with his old friends, and uncom | promising and severe as he could bt | when he wielded his pen, he was al
 ways most charming in conversation l He never, when he was with his 1 friends claimed the right of speaking
 with authority, even on his own speca subjects, as he might well have done
 It seemed to be his pen that made hin
 say bitter things. He must have beer
 sorry himself for the severe censure hi 1 passed in his earlier years on mer | whose honost labor, if nothing else
 ought to have protected them agains l such cruel onslaughts.
 He was really the most tolerant an( agreeable man in society. He coulc l discover beauty where no one else sav it, and make allowance where other.
 saw no excuse. I remember him as diff | fident as a young girl, full of questions
 and grateful for any information
 Even on art topics I have watched hin
 listening almost deferentially to others l who laid down the law in his presence l His voice was always most winning
 and his language simply perfect H.
 was one of the few Englishmen I knev
 who, instead of tumbling out their sen | tences like so many portmanteaus | bags, rugs and hat-boxes from an opel l railway van seemed to take a real de light in building up his sentences, eve, l in familiar conversation, so as to mak
 each deliverance 8 work of art Late
 in life that even temperament ma7 1 have become somewhat changed. H
 had suffered much, and one saw tha
 his wounds had not quite healed. Hi
 public lectures as professor of fine ar
 were most attractive, and extremel, popular at first. But they were evi dently too much for him, and on thu
 advice of his medical friends he had a