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Boulogne, July 23, 1841.

7. Our tour is ended, and I grieve to say that it has left on my mind a more unfavourable impression of France than I have been wont to feel. I do not doubt the great mass of good which must exist, but the active elements, those, at least, which are on the surface, seem to be working for evil. The virulence of the newspapers against England is, I think, a very bad omen, and the worship which the people seem to pay to Napoleon's memory is also deeply to be regretted. But it is the misfortune of France that her "past" cannot be loved or respected; her future and her present cannot be wedded to it; yet how can the present yield fruit, or the future have promise, except their roots be fixed in the past? The evil is infinite, but the blame rests with those who made the past a dead thing, out of which no healthful life could be produced.

Much as I like coming abroad, I am never for an instant tempted to live abroad; not even in Germany, where assuredly I would settle, if I were obliged to quit England. But not the strongest Tory or Conservative values our Church or Law more than I do, or would find life less liveable without them. Indeed it is very hard to me to think that those can value either who can see their defects with indifference; or that those can value them worthily, that is, can appreciate their idea, who do not see wherein they fall short of their idea. And now I close this Journal for the present, praying that God may bless us, and keep us in worldly good or evil in Himself and in His Son. Amen.

THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF

DR. ARNOLD'S PUBLISHED WORKS.

THEOLOGICAL WORKS.

I. Five volumes of Sermons:

1st. Sermons preached at Laleham, 1829.

2nd. Sermons preached in the School Chapel at Rugby. With five Sermons on the Social State of England, and an Essay on the Interpretation of Scripture, 1832. [These last are omitted in a smaller edition of this volume, entitled "Sermons preached in Rugby Chapel,” 1832, which contains two Sermons not in the larger edition.]

3d. Selection of Sermons, 1832-34, with a Preface on the Study of Theology, and two Appendices on Atheism, and on the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession.

4th. Selection of Sermons, 1835-1841, entitled "Christian Life, its Course, its Helps, and its Hindrances;" with a Preface on the Oxford School of Theology, and Notes on Tradition, Rationalism, and Inspiration.

5th. Sermons preached 1841-1842, (posthumous,) entitled "Christian Life, its Hopes, its Fears and its Close."

II. Two Sermons on Prophecy, with Notes, 1839.

III. Fragments on Church and State; one of which has been published separately. The three others will appear shortly, in a volume of miscellaneous works.

HISTORICAL AND PHILOLOGICAL WORKS.

I. Edition of Thucydides, 1st edition, 1830, 33, 35. 2nd edition, 1840, 41, 42.

The first volume contains a Preface on the previous editions of Thucydides, (omitted in the 2nd edition,) and Appendices.

1. On the social progress of States. 2. On the Spartan constitution. 3. (Omitted in the 2nd edition) on the constitution of the Athenian tribes.

The 2nd contains a collation of the Venetian MS., and two Appendices on the date of the Pythian Games, and on the topography of Megara, Corinth, Sphacteria, and Amphipolis.

The third contains a Preface on the general importance of Greek History to political science, and an Appendix on the topography of Sy

racuse.

II. History of Rome, in 3 volumes, 1838, 40, 42, which was broken off by his death at the end of the second Punic War.

III. Articles on Roman History in Encyclopædia Metropolitana, written 1821-27, on the lives of "Hamilcar," "Hannibal," "The Gracchi," Sulla," "Cæsar," " Augustus," "Trajan," and "the Historians of Rome," to be republished in an additional volume.

IV. "Introductory Lectures on Modern History." 1842.

MISCELLANEOUS WORKS.

I. "The Christian Duty of conceding the Roman Catholic Claims." 1828. II. Englishman's Register-Articles in, signed A. 1831.

III. Tract on the Cholera, addressed to the inhabitants of Rugby. 1831. IV. Letters to the Sheffield Courant, on the Social Distress of the Lower Orders. 1831,32.

V. Preface on " Poetry of Common Life," to a collection of poetry under that name. Published by J. C. Platt, Sheffield, 1832.

VI. " Principles of Church Reform," with " Postscript." 1833.

VII. Lecture before Mechanics' Institute, at Rugby, on the Divisions of Knowledge. 1839.

VIII. Letters to the Hertford Reformer, on Chartism, and on Church and State. 1839, 40, 41.

IX. Paper on the Revival of the order of Deacons. 1841.

In addition to these were various articles in periodical journals.

1. On Southey's Wat Tyler,

2. On Cunningham's De Rance,

British Critic, 1819-20.

3. On Niebuhr's "History of Rome." In Quarterly Review, vol. xxxii. 1825.

4. On "Letters of an Episcopalian." Ed. Review, vol. xliv. 1826. 5. On "Dr. Hampden." Edinb. Review, vol. lxiii. 1836.

6. On" Rugby School," and on " the Discipline of Public Schools, by a Wykehamist," in the Quarterly Journal of Education, vols. vii. ix. 1834-35.

Of these Miscellaneous works it is proposed to republish those which possess any permanent interest, in a separate volume, with some others which were left in MS.

The monument erected to Dr. Arnold's memory in Rugby Chapel was executed by Mr. Thomas. The Epitaph was written by Chevalier Bunsen, in imitation of those on the tombs of the Scipios, and of the early Christian inscriptions on similar subjects.

INDEX.

ABBOTT, Jacob, 223. 235. 306.

Alexander, 129.

Animal Magnetism, 310.

Canons, 379.

Carlyle, Thomas, 328. 365. 439.

444.

Antichrist, 57. 122. 153. 315. 364. Caution, 402. 421.

Appii Forum, 498.

Aristocracy, 179. 316. 328. 368.

468.

Aristotle, 22. 55. 412.

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Arnold, Thomas, Birth, 13.-Edu-
cation at school, 13.-Entrance
at Oxford, 16.-Marriage and set-
tlement at Laleham, 28.-Elec-
tion at Rugby, 44.--Purchase
Fox How, 46.-Professorship at
Oxford, 418. 425.-Death, 450.
452. Character as a boy, 13.—
at Laleham, 28.-Religious be-
lief, 29.-General views in later
life, 119.-Domestic life, 143.-
Intercourse with friends, 144.-
with the poor, 145.-Formation
of his opinions, 371.

Articles of the Church of England,
219. 251. 277.379.
Arts, Degree in, 304. 309.
Asia Minor, 249.

Association, British, 354.

Athanasian Creed, 329. 380.

Atheism, 191.

Attic Society, 23.

Austria, 389.

Avignon, 353. 487.

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Balston, Henry, illness and death, Clubs, 235. 409.

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335. 339.

Bunyan, 296.

Butler, 296.

Cobbett, 243.

Coleridge, Mr. Justice, Letter from,
16. Elevation to the Bench, 238.
Samuel Taylor, 260. 292.

353.370.

Bunsen, Chevalier, 38. 220. 242. Cologne, 473.-Archbishop of, 320.

Colonization, 285. 369. 380. 445.

Colosseum, 472.

Commentary, design of, 196, 196.

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Foundationers of Rugby school, 348. Illyrians, 234.

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