ABSTRACT
From National Review, January, 1864, xviii, 172–7. This unsigned essay by Arnold (1822–88) was republished in his Essays in Criticism (1865). Joseph Joubert (1754–1824), whose Pensées were published in two volumes in 1842, was the subject of Arnold’s Crewian Oration as Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1863. The reference in the essay to de Rémusat is to Charles de Rémusat’s ‘Des controverses religieuses en Angleterre, II: Coleridge–Arnold’, Revue des deux mondes, v (October 1856), 512.
