have recognized it, as an incomparable source of moral wisdom and of religious emotion. To value its poetry and its morality he was eminently qualified. In an age when its hold upon both cultivated and ignorant minds was weakened by the general discrediting of the old theological interpretations, he performed a great service by uncompromisingly rejecting the theological interpretations as obsolete, and as, at the present day, absolutely unimportant to believers in sound morality and sound religion. Following in the spirit of his favorite apostle"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good"— he firmly indicated those things in the Bible which to accept as science is incompatible with habits of intellectual seriousness. But when that work was done, he brought to the task of reconstructive interpretation the light of a wide secular culture, profound moral insight, an apprehension fresh and untrammeled by clerical cant, a passion for righteousness, and an instinct for religion. He gives to the reader for whom the great book has become dusty with neglect or staled by pulpit usage and thoughtless parroting new zest and new eyes for reading the Bible. More than that, he leaves one with strengthened conviction that Christianity has the key to "that universal order which the intellect feels after as a law, and the heart feels after as a benefit." THE END INDEX (Titles from Arnold's Works Are Indicated by Italics) Absence, 59. Addison, Joseph, 151, 157. Alaric at Rome, 8. Alexander, Bishop of Derry, 35. Alexander the Great, 285. America, 12, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48, 49, 50, 203, 234, 253, Arnold, Frances Lucy (Mrs. Matthew A.), 13, 37, 40, 49. Arnold, Lucy, 40, 47. Arnold, Matthew (see table of contents). Arnold, Thomas, 37. Arnold, Thomas, Dr., 5, 30. Arnold, Thomas, Mrs., 5, 7, 19. Ashburton, Lady, 35. Augustine, St., 250. Austerity of Poetry, 70. Babylas, 284. Bacon, Lord, 12, 271. Balder Dead, 15, 98, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 126. Bancroft, George, 43. Beaconsfield, Lady, 35. Beaumont and Fletcher, 162. Bedford, Duke of, 35. Bédier, Joseph, 164. Beecher, Henry Ward, 43. Bismarck, Prince, 48, 123. Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, 157. British Quarterly Review, 137. Brooks, Phillips, 42. Browning, Robert, 10, 31, 52. Buried Life, The, 60, 61, 62, 63, 86. Butler, Bishop, 291. Byron, 172. Byron, Lord, 39, 54, 161, 162. Calvin, John, 307. Campbell, Thomas, 162. Carlyle, Thomas, 4, 12, 33, 72, 73, 123, 144, 187, 229, 230, 231, Carnegie, Andrew, 42, 49. Celtic Magic, 175. Chanson de Roland, 159, 164. Chapman, George, 174. Chateaubriand, F. R. de, 54. Chesterton, G. K., 261. Child, J. F., 43. Chrétien de Troyes, 159, 164. Cicero, 140, 293. Circourt, M. de, 27. Civilization in the United States, 40. Clifford, Colonel, 35. Clough, A. H., 8, 32, 77. Coleridge, S. T., 162. Collins, J. C., 271. Comte, Auguste, 277. Copernicus, 215. Cornhill Magazine, The, 34. Cowper, Henry, 36. Cowper, William, 162, 174. Cromwell, 8. Cuffe, Doctor, 271. Culture and Anarchy, 34, 35, 38, 197, 198, 229, 237, 238, 239, |