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Show BBBm - ssadmmmmaeM'rssna. - s- bVT rU 1 AUTHORS NOT OF KIN. Hi ' B i 3lr Edwin and Matthew Arnold Had BB J Little In Common. B? John Dcnlson Champlln tails an H amusing story of Matthew Arnold and H tho Into Sir 1 01 win Arnold. "Soma H, twonty years ngo," ha says, "whon walking with Matthew Arnold on the Ilianks of tho little Ulver Teat, near Ilomscy nbbey, conversation turned on Sir Edwin Arnold and 'Tho Light of Asia,' published four or Ave years H I previously. It Is not necessary to H J enter Into Mr. Arnold's opinion of the H ! i poem. During the ronvcrsatlou I took S i .occasion to ask him If lit were relatod i to Sir Kdwln. Ho paused n moment, m ( ns If shocked nt Die suggestion, nnd BH 'then said- 'No, we are not of kin. H Indeed, I doubt If he had any right to H j. the namo of Arnold I hnvo been told H that he Is of Jewish descent.' few BB weeks later I happened to meet Sir H ' Edwin at n dinner In London and. H prompted by, I hope, n -lot unpnrdon- H , able curiosity, piopounded a similar H I query to blm. 'No,' he teplled quick H ' ly, with what seemed a shade of H ' asperity In his tone. 'I am not related H to Matthew Arnold We are of wholly H 3 different families ' Then, his face H I breaking Into bis peculiar smile, he H added: 'Matthew Arnold Is nn In- H tcllectual dyspeptic. Ills brain does BH not digest proper') ' |