Arnold of Rugby has come to be rather a legendary
figure, where he is remembered, in this the centenary of his death, it generally as a schoolmaster and not as a historian, but his Hist of Rome was important, and he was Regius Professor at Oxford. can be variously seen through the eyes of Dean Stanley, Sam Butler and Lytton Strachey—out of whose portraits an instructs synthesis might be evolved. His reputation, moreover, percolat through to strange places. Some twenty years ago or so Mr. Fr Swinnerton, then living, I believe, somewhere Highgate way, engag the daughter of a local window-cleaner as domestic help. damsel's father shortly afterwards called, in the exhilaration of sh insobriety, to express his satisfaction with the arrangement. " F Sir," he affirmed, " I know a gentleman when I see one. I kr) what Arnold of Rugby means."
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