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Show Sir Kdwln Arnold, ona of tho eldest of KiiKland'e literary and Journalistic knlKhta. la dead of old sue, after Buffering Buf-fering for years from partial paraly-als. paraly-als. Aa port, Orientalist, and newa-paper newa-paper wrllur ho had been easily Id tha foro front of literary rlrrlee for a full quarter of a century. Hla work waa almost aa widely known In Amur Ira aa In K.nxland, and hla fame had spread to the four cornera of tha world. Kvon within the laat month artlclea from his pen on Japan and tho crisis In the far East hava been published In thn American papera. Hlr Kdwln always had a soft aunt In hla heart for tha tnyetlc KaM, from which be got hla third wife, and which Inspired mm u of hla bolter work. Ho waa an authority on every modern Oriental nation, and waa never tlrad of I elnglng the pralaea of tho hardy Jap- anoaa, aud especially hla Jnpaneao wife, whoso gentle dlaposltlon baa dona much to mold Kngllab public opinion and bring It lo the arttve support sup-port of tha Mikado's rlalma In lha present war with lluasla. Sir Edwin waa born Juno 10, 1831. Educated at Oxford. Hlr Kdwln Arnold, best known to tha public as thn author of "The l.lKht of Asia" and "The l.lkht of the World." waa educated at University College. toe Lady Arnold. Jspanasa Widow of Hlr Kdwln Arnold. Oatord, being a prliunian there In 18M. Io bei-aiua master of King Kd- ward'a achoitl at lllrmliiKham In 1H64 aud ruiuaiiied tlu-re until 186o. Krom tha latter year uutll 18C1 ho waa principal prin-cipal uf tha government Deccan col-lego col-lego at Foona, llomhay. Heturulug to lxjndim In lHtilglr Kdwln bucamo connected con-nected with tha Dally Telegraph, doing do-ing much editorial and literary writing. writ-ing. Tha winning of lha Newdvgate prlie at Oaford In 1H63. the subject of hla poem being "Tha Kraal of llelshaa-aar," llelshaa-aar," marked Arnold aa a man of far above average ability. On tha death of Thornton Hunt, editor of tho Telegraph, Tele-graph, Arnold autrvedod to h'a 'ost aud for many years waa tho moat voluminous writer ou tha London press. Aa long aito aa 1SHU ne aaid: "The hnrdoet work of my Ufa haa been done on a dally miwsraper. I hae written more than 1,000 editorials." edito-rials." "Tha Light of Asia" waa begun In Hcptember, 1878, and tha Knlnhiid tplr In elkht IsKika was put In tho hinds of tha prlnuir, published and on thu market by July lh7. It made a treat stir aud ran through many edltloaa, Hlr Kdwln waa knighted by Ijiwen Victoria In 1H.18. Ho waa often Ion-ored Ion-ored with tlllea. Ho wu a fullna of llotnbay university and of tha Koyal Asiatic aoclciy. officer of tha Wlilte IClephant of Hiain, also of thu Crown of tiiatn anil the Hlslng Bun of Juisn, I socond class of Imperial Medldle, third elaaa Oxmanleh, and ronmatder of tha Lion and bun at Irertla." ,. . Hlr Kdwln wa throe times rtg-rlod, hla first wife being KathurllojKllu-heth KathurllojKllu-heth 'llildulph of 1iindon, wht fed In lliiit. Hla second waa Kaiia'p Chan-nlng Chan-nlng of lloaton, who died In lil'J. In lh7 he married Tama Kuraxawa of Hernial, Japan. Hho aurvlvesklm. A curloua fact In retards) 'The l.lKht of the World" la that It waa entirely en-tirely dleiutud lu a Japaueae ordon lo a Jnnanese atn-rclary. In tho death of Hlr Rdwli Arnold a star of the first matiultud disappears disap-pears from the sky of lltertluro, a writer of marked ability horn the ranka of Journalism, a puullcut of renown re-nown from the Held of dlplotaiey, and a gentle and loving spirit (run tha human hu-man brotherhood. Ht waa, Oral of all, of (wirae, a poet, aud while aoine poeuia tare to acnlevo greatness bla povlleal productions produc-tions had greatness thrust upua them. Homer node and ao doos hlr Kdwln. but ho aim srlntlllatoa, and those who havo devotedly followed lha trail uf bla poetic geulua havo gathnrd perhaps per-haps aa many pearls of thought aa have been alrewn by any eUnr poet of hla era. It will ha a long Hot. huforo "The Light of Aala," "Wlta Bndl In the tlartlen" and "Japnuha" ire con alkiied to that lliubo to whlcitho advancing ad-vancing niatcriuilMii of the rua haa sentenced all ttoetry. As Hlr Kdwln was long a midenl of Jupun. and niuirled a JapaDau wlfa and wus perieetly united In teart to thut land and 'nation, It Is 1 lathetlc feuture uf his death that ba ahould pa-is away Just as Julian la atiut to reallio hla lend aud Inalstent imphecy thut she would take rank with the must progresHlvo, clvlllied ul powerful power-ful nations on the globe. |