J 2 Life and Times of " The Driiid." 



server of August 23rd, 1890, to the effect 

 that u Arnold had been considered a bug- 

 bear and a nuisance by many generations of 

 Rugby boys, as he combined with divers 

 excellencies the weakness of being a prig, 

 and the breeder of prigs — the sort of person, 

 in short, whom prigs of all succeeding ages 

 will be lamentably prone to deify." It would 

 be about as correct to call Dr. Arnold 

 " a prig " as to denounce Mr. Gladstone 

 as an idle man. It has been my fortune 

 to see a great deal of active hostilities as 

 Special War Correspondent of two great 

 London daily newspapers, and I have often 

 regretted that Dr. Arnold was not born a 

 soldier, for in all his writings, and especially 

 in his " History of Rome," his Edition of 

 Thucydides, and his " Lectures on Modern 

 History," there are abundant indications that 

 he would have made one of the most accom- 

 plished and successful Generals that these 

 islands ever produced. Apart from other 

 noble qualities, a manlier, simpler, more un- 

 affectedly sincere and guileless man than Dr. 

 Arnold never drew the breath of life, and the 

 one quality which, above all others, distin- 



