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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Thomas Arnold (1823–1900)

Arnold, Thomas. An English writer on literature and editor of old texts, son of Dr. Arnold of Rugby and brother of Matthew Arnold; born at Laleham, Nov. 30, 1823; died at Dublin, Nov. 12, 1900. He became a Roman Catholic, and spent a number of years in New Zealand and Tasmania. Among his works are: ‘A Manual of English Literature’; ‘Select English Works of Wyclif’ (3 vols., 1869); ‘Selections from the Spectator’; ‘Beowulf’ (text, translation, and notes); ‘Henry of Huntingdon’; ‘Symeon of Durham’; ‘Chronicles of the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds.’