Show her hereditary c datary genf genius how rarely is literary genius or indeed a very high order ot of literary talent reproduced in the second generation it Is rare indeed for memorials of father and son to find themselves face to face in westminster abbey as since last week do the memorials of thomas and matthew arnold and in this case thomas arnold owes his place rather to the character and personal influence and the gratitude of the Rug belan race he reared than to anything in him that could be called literary genius thinking over the great names of english literature the only cases that occur to one are the he colp colf ridges the disraelly and the Lyt tows and some would add the mills and with the possible exception of samuel 7 laylor ay and hartley coleridge there cannot in these cases be much talk of genius transmitted in prance france there are the eases of the two and of fils and if dubs pere and dumas edmond de Gon courts critical insight I 1 is tp be depended on we shall have to add a daudet pere and daudet lils fils allt father used to complain that he never in the worlds regard had an independent existence the arst rot half of his hb lifshe was w merely mendelssohn the philosopher the son of moses asoph os er and the second halt half merely the father of ro allx im mendelssohn the composer st james gazette |