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Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold

Creator: Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888
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Editor: Johnson, William Savage


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Riverside College Classics SELECTIONS FROM THE PROSE WORKS OF MATTHEW ARNOLD _EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES_ BY WILLIAM SAVAGE JOHNSON, PH.D. _Professor of English Literature in the University of Kansas_ HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO The Riverside Press Cambridge _The essays included in this issue of the Riverside College Classics are
Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar.

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: In this book, as well as using _ to indicate the italic font, the = symbol has been used to show text printed in smaller capital letters in the original printed version. Please see the HTML version for a more accurate reproduction. Bracketed words, such as [the?], were present in the original text. They were not added by the transcriber. Obvious printing errors were repaired; these changes are listed at the end of the text. In ambiguous cases, the text has been left as it appears in the original book. In particular, many mismatched quotation marks have not been changed. LECTURES ON LANGUAGE, AS PARTICULARLY CONNECTED WITH
reprinted by permission of, and by arrangement with, The Macmillan Company, the American publishers of Arnold's writings._ 1913, HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED The Riverside Press CAMBRIDGE MASSACHUSETTS PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. PREFACE This book of selections aims to furnish examples of Arnold's prose in all the fields in which it characteristically employed itself except that of religion. It has seemed better to omit all such material than to attempt inclusion of a few extracts which could hardly give any adequate notion of Arnold's work in this department. Something, however, of his method in religious criticism can be discerned by a perusal of the chapter on _Hebraism and Hellenism_, selected from _Culture and Anarchy_. Most of Arnold's leading ideas are represented in this volume, but the decision to use entire essays so far as feasible has naturally