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...irresolute nature. Arnold's letters also are largely biographical by intention, since Arnold like Thackeray was unwilling to have any formal life of himself published. A good many dry and trivial details, as well as references to persons still living, might well have been omitted; and the finical hypercritical streak in the great critic comes to the surface with unpleasant frequency. But the collection as a whole shows Arnold in an engaging light as son, brother, husband and father; the glimpses of English scenery are many and charming; and the governing bent of Arnold's mind is characteristically displayed...
...that day; he was missed by his hosts; and it was afterward discovered that Johnson had driven to Uttoxeter and stood bareheaded in the rain for an entire hour before the bookstall which had been his father's. This incident illustrates at once Johnson's filial tenderness and a streak of characteristic superstition, which took an emblematic form of penance...
...ninth, after two men were out, Whittemore and Wrenn both made inexcusable errors and Hedges, Colgate and Adams got a batting streak. Before the confusion was over Yale was six runs closer to Harvard than at the beginning of the inning...
...ever on the lookout for defects in the methods of teaching. He made the greatest mistake of his critical career when he lauded Shelley's letters to the skies, saying that they would long outlive his poetry. Arnold says of himself that there was in him a good, definite streak of the Philistine. Yet we should not dwell too much upon the mistakes of a man so full of generous enthusiasm for the best things. Matthew Arnold, Walter Pater and Henry James were all apostles to the Philistines...
...only five errors were made on each side. '94 seemed to have the game well in hand up to the last of the fourth, but with the score 4 to 0 against them '93 made two runs in their half of the fourth and by a heavy batting streak in the sixth knocked out four runs and the game. Winsor started off poorly letting the first three men go to first, but later on he settled down and pitched a good game. He allowed only three hits and struck out nine men. Gale was steady except in the sixth when...