New-York tribune., 1900-05-13

he bore the same attitude toward all his chill
dren For them all. however the precept
famed steadily from his life still more than
from his lips work Not work at this or that
but work" His gives this pleasant glimpse
of him in his family life:
My father delighted in our games. and some
times joined in them. Stern though his look
could be-and often had to be-there vein
OF drolery in him. a spirit of pure fun. which
perhaps came from his Suffolk ancestry. He
not witty, nOr-though he could apprec- ate
humor-Was he humorous: but the comic and
grotesque side of human life attracted him
strongly. He gave to each of his children some
nickname more or less absurd and jobed with
us, while his eyes tWinkled. the droll situa-
tions and comparisons which the names sug-
Sested. In sense We were afraid of him: that
is, we We're very much afraid. if we did wrong.
of being found out and punished. and still
worse, of witnessing the frown gather on his
brow. Yet in all of us the whole love cast
out fear. for he never held us at distance.
never impatient with us-always. knew. was
trying to make us good and happy.
More than ore of Mr.. Arnold's boyhood friends
became famous in later years. At Rugby he
knew Hodson. of Hodson's Horse. known then
among his companions for some occult reason as
"Pritchard Hodson.' He admits that that i'll
fated individual arrogant rash and of a
domineerng temper and says that he has never
been able to think of Hodsons killing the young
princes who had surrendered to him al Delhi ex-
cept as a crime. but he defends him against
most of the charges which have been cast
upon him. Il do not believe" he declares
that HodSOn was capable of base ignOble
acts, Judgment in which many will be glad
to concur. regarding the much attacked soldier
as violent in character but detestable MIR
Arnold knew Tom Hughes as a boy lanky or
aspect, and therefore dubbed by his schoolmates
1.-The executloner." But it is for his recollectons
of Matthew Arnold that We are NEST grateful
TO the author. The two brothers spent a year at
Winchester. The future poet and critic bore his
tasks lightly. and even went so far at breakfast
found the work in his form light and easy"
DR.. Mobery laughed. The other scholars wera
anything but pleased. One of them afterward
practically impressed upon Matthew the wick
edness of making little to the head master of
the difficulty of form work. he became unpopu-
lar in the school. and when the time came for
the traditional exhibition of disapproval the of
fender placed in position and his mates
with howls and jeers. pelted him with 'pOntos
balls made of the soft inside Of a fresh roll At
Winchester Matthews recitation of a speech
from 'Marino Faliero' caused him to be ranked
as the best speaker Of poetry in the school
Mr.. Arnold describes his brother at Oxford
as soon becoming something OF lion owing to
his keen bantering talk He began to dress
fashionably. and developed the somewhat SUI
perior air which to cling to him through
life. There is a story. which the author gives
for what it is worth, of Matthew receiving his |
family at the university. We visited him at |
his rooms in Ballio" says Mr.. Arnold. 'at the |
top OF the second staircase in the corner OF the !