UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME. SCRAMBLES AMONGST THE ALPS. THE GREAT BOER WAR. Edward Whymper. Arthur Conan Doyle. COLLECTIONS AND RECOLLECTIONS. G. W. E. Russell. LIFE OF JOHN NICHOLSON. MEMORIES. LIFE OF GLADSTONE. THE PSALMS IN HUMAN LIFE. WILD LIFE IN A SOUTHERN COUNTY. THE GOLDEN AGE. REMINISCENCES. THE FOREST. ADVENTURES OF A MEMSAHIB. IDYLLS OF THE SEA. SELECTED ESSAYS. Captain Trotter. Dean Hole. Herbert W. Paul. R. E. Prothero. Richard Jefferies. Kenneth Grahame. Sir Henry Hawkins. Stewart Edward White. Sara Jeannette Dnncan. Frank T. Bullen. Augustine Birrell. LIFE OF LORD RUSSELL OF KILLOWEN. THE MAKING OF MODERN EGYPT. Others to follow. R. Barry O'Brien. Sir Auckland Colvin. E. S. Grogan. F. S. Oliver. S. Reynolds Hole. CULTURE AND ANARCHY AN ESSAY IN POLITICAL BY MATTHEW ARNOLD THOMAS NELSON & SONS LONDON, EDINBURGH, DUBLIN (By arrangement with Messrs. Smith, Elder, & Co.) PREFACE. (1869.) MY Y foremost design in writing this Preface is to address a word of exhortation to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. In the essay which follows, the reader will often find Bishop Wilson quoted. To me and to the members of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge his name and writings are still, no doubt, familiar. But the world is fast going away from old-fashioned people of his sort, and I learnt with consternation lately from a brilliant and distinguished votary of the natural sciences, that he had never so much as heard of Bishop Wilson, and that he |