ABSTRACT
1 March 1873, xxxv, 284–6
Sceptical as ever about Arnold’s ideas, the ‘Saturday’ typifies in this article much of the contemporary dissatisfaction with Arnold the amateur theologian. The reviewer offers the usual damning faint praise of Arnold as a man of literature and culture, but only to suggest that his ideas may be determined by his charming style and that his religious writing is a ‘capricious and illegitimate … exercise of his power’. Arnold’s Zeitgeist is turned upon himself, since it is Arnold, the reviewer says, who may be out of date.
