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vines and maize are luxuriant. It is properly France, with its wide landscapes, no mountains, but slopes and hills; its luminous air, its spread of cultivation, with the vines and maize and walnuts, mixed with the ripe corn, as brilliant in colouring as it is rich in its associations. I never saw a brighter or a fresher landscape. Green hedges line the road; the hay, just cut, is fragrant; every thing is really splendid for man's physical well being: -it is Kent six degrees nearer the sun. Nor are there wanting church towers enough to sanctify the scene, if one could believe that with the stone church there was also the living Church, and not the accursed Priestcraft. But, alas! a Priest is not a Church, but that which renders a Church impossible.

St. Jean de Luz, July 11th, 1841.

2. It is this very day year that we were at Mola di Gaeta together, and I do not suppose it possible to conceive a greater contrast than Mola di Gaeta on the 11th of July, 1840, and St. Jean de Luz on the 11th of July 1841. The lake-like calm of that sea, and the howling fury of this ocean,—the trees few and meagre, shivering from the blasts of the Atlantic, and the umbrageous bed of oranges, peaches and pomegranates, which there delighted in the freshness of that gentle water;-the clear sky and bright moon, and the dark mass of clouds and drizzle,-the remains of Roman palaces and the fabled scene of Homer's poetry, and a petty French fishing town, with its coasting Chasse Marées: these are some of the points of the contrast. Yet those vile Italians are the refuse of the Roman slaves, crossed by a thousand conquests; and these Basques are the very primeval Iberians, who were the most warlike of the nations of the West, before the Kelts had ever come near the shores of the Mediterranean. And the little pier, which I have been just looking at, was the spot where Sir Charles Penrose found the Duke of Wellington alone at the dead of night, when anxious about the weather for the passage of the Adour, he wished to observe its earliest signs before other men had left their beds.

Near Agen, July 14.

3. For some time past the road has been a terrace above the lower bank of the Garonne, which is flowing in great breadth and majesty below

us.

From these heights, in clear weather, you can see the Pyrenees, but now the clouds hang darkly over them.. One thing I should have noticed of Agen, that it is the birth-place of Joseph Scaliger, in some respects the Niebuhr of the seventeenth century, but rather the Bentley, morally far below Niebuhr; and though, like Bentley, almost rivalling him in acuteness, and approaching somewhat to him in knowledge, yet altogether without his

wisdom.

Auch, July 14, 1841.

4. At supper we were reading a Paris paper, Le Siècle; but the one thing which struck me, and rejoiced my very heart, was an advertisement in it of a most conspicuous kind, and in very large letters, of LA SAINTE BIBLE, announcing an edition, in numbers, of De Sacy's French translation of it. I can conceive nothing but good from such a thing. May God prosper it to His glory, and the salvation of souls; it was a joyful and a blessed sight to see it.

5.

Bourges, July 18.

We found the afternoon service going on at the Cathedral, and the Archbishop, with his priests and the choristers, were going round the church in procession, chanting some of their hymns, and with a great multitude of people following them. The effect was very fine, and I again lamented our neglect of our cathedrals, and the absurd confusion in so many men's minds between what is really Popery and what is but wisdom and beauty, adopted by the Roman Catholics and neglected by us.

Paris, July 20, 1841. 6. I have been observing the people in the streets very carefully, and their general expression is not agreeable, that of the young men especially. The newspapers seem all gone mad together, and these disturbances at Toulouse are very sad and unsatisfactory. If that advertisement which I saw about La Sainte Bible be found to answer, that would be the great specific for France. And what are our prospects at home with the Tory Government? and how long will it be before Chartism again' forces itself upon our notice? So where is the hope, humanly speaking, of things bettering, or are the λοιμοί and λιμοι, πόλεμοι and ἀκοάι πόλεμων, ready to herald a new advent of the Lord to judgment? The questions concerning our state appear to me so perplexing, that I cannot even in theory see their solution. We have not and cannot yet solve the problem, how the happiness of mankind is reconcilable with the necessity of painful labour. The happiness of a part can be secured easily enough, their ease being provided for by others' labour; but how can the happiness of the generality be secured, who must labour of necessity painfully? How can he who labours hard for his daily bread-hardly, and with doubtful success-be made wise and good, and therefore how can he be made happy? This question undoubtedly the Church was meant to solve; for Christ's Kingdom was to undo the evil of Adam's sin; but the Church has not solved it, nor attempted to do so; and no one else has gone about it rightly. This is the great bar to education. How can a poor man find time to be educated? You may establish schools, but he will not have time to attend them, for a few years of early boyhood are no more enough to give education, than the spring months can do the summer's work when the summer is all cold and rainy. But I must go to bed, and try to get home to you and to work, for there is great need of working. God bless you, my dearest wife, with all our darlings.

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.

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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. Six 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.]

3rd. 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."

6th. Sermons mostly on the Interpretation of Scripture (posthumous).

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

III. Fragments on Church and State.

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 a 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 Syracuse.

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

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LIST OF DR. ARNOLD'S PUBLISHED WORKS.

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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 66

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 Rancè.

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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.

5. On" Dr. Hampden." Edinb. Review, vol. Ixiii. 1836.

1826.

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.

The final regulations for the distribution of the fund which has been or is to be collected for the purpose of founding institutions at Rugby and at Oxford to Dr. Arnold's memory, will, it is believed, be arranged by the committee appointed for that purpose, in the course of the present year.

INDEX.

ABBOTT, Jacob, 225, 235, 301.

Alexander, 137.

Animal Magnetism, 306.

Antichrist, 68, 130, 161, 310, 353.
Appii Forum, 475.

Aristocracy, 184, 309, 320, 357, 368.
Aristotle, 34, 65, 395.

Arnold, Thomas, Birth, 25.-Education

at School, 26.-Entrance at Oxford,
28. Marriage and settlement at Lale-
ham, 40-Election at Rugby, 55.-
Purchase of Fox How, 153.-Profes-
sorship at Oxford, 404, 411.-Death,
443.-Character as a boy, 26.—As a
young man, 37-At Laleham, 40 -
Religious belief, 42.—General views
in later life, 125.-Domestic life, 150.
-Intercourse with friends, 152.—
with the poor, 152.-Formation of his
opinions, 359.

Articles of the Church of England, 221,
249, 274, 366.

Arts, Degree in, 298, 303.
Asia Minor, 248.

Association, British, 344.

Athanasian Creed, 322, 366.

Atheism, 195.

Attic Society, 35.

Austria, 375.

Avignon, 344, 465.

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History of, 138, 238, 468.

Views of its ends and nature,
144, 265, 290, 293, 328, 356, 382, 384.
-In what sense a society, 172.

and state, work on, 53, 144.-
Identity. of, 72, 147, 229, 313, 332,
355, 479, 482, 483.
Civilization, 246, 468.
Classics, 98.

Clerical profession, 337.-Education,
237, 344.

Clubs, 235, 393.

Cobbett, 242.

Coleridge, Mr. Justice, Letter from, 28,
Elevation to the Bench, 238.

358.

Samuel Taylor, 257, 288, 343,

Cologne, 453.-Archbishop of, 313.
Colonization, 165, 283, 357, 359, 368,
426.
Colosseum, 452.

Commentary, design of, 140, 198, 199.
Communion at Rugby, 110.

Como, Lake of, 448, 453, 455, 457.
Confession, 227.

Confirmations, 111.

Conservatism, 132, 161, 178, 242, 268,
356.

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