Logan Republican | 1904-04-09 | Page 6 | Local News

Sir Edwin Arnold! ono of the oldest of Knglnnd's literary and Journalistic knights, Is dead of old age, after suffering suf-fering for years from partial paralysis. paraly-sis. As poet, Orientalist, nnd newspaper news-paper writer ho had been easily In tho fore front of literary circles for a full quarter of a century. Ills work was almost as widely known In America Amer-ica as In England, and his fnmo had spread to tho four corners of the world. Even within tho last month articles from his pen on Japan and tho crisis in tho far EaBt have been published lu tho American papers. Sir Edwin always had a soft spot ln his heart for tho mystic East, from which ho got his third wife, nnd which Inspired much of his better work. Ho was an nuthorlty on every modern Oriental nation, and wns never tiroil of singing tho praises of the hardy Japanese, Jap-anese, and especially his Jnpaneso wife, whoso gcntlo disposition has dono much to mold English public opinion and bring lt to tho active support sup-port of the Mikado's claims In thu present war with Russia. Sir Edwin was born June 10, 1835.