A GREAT VICTORIAN VOICE.

The article focuses on the book "The Note-Books of Matthew Arnold," edited by Horward Foster Lowry, Karl Young and Waldo Hilary Dunn. At first glance these 650 pages tiny have a forbidding look even to one who knows something of Arnold and admires his intelligence and integrity. Most of the papers in which Arnold worked out his poetry and prose have disappeared. Thus the "Notebooks" will always be the best means scholars have for tracing his ideas to their origins. In their introduction the editors raise the question whether Arnold was a learned man and whether the book gives evidence that he was. The great thing about Arnold is that he put his knowledge and intelligence to work for the public good.