Alexander, Right Rev. William

M.A., b. at Rochester, Eng., June 10, 1832; educat 19 ed at University College, Oxford; graduated B.A., 1854; became a istant master of Edward VI. School, Birmingham; later, principal of the government Sanscrit College at Poona, Bombay Presidency; an editor of the London Daily Telegraph, 1861. He is a fellow.of the Royal Asiatic Society, and of the Royal Geographical Society; 2d cla of the imperial order of the Medjidie (Turkish), and companion of the Star of India. He arranged George Smith's first expedition, and Stanley's expedition in search of Living stone, — both in behalf of the Daily Telegraph. He has made numerous poetical translations from Greek and Sanscrit, and has written many poems, of which the most famous are, The Light of Asia (the life and teaching of Buddha), London, 1879 (28th ed., 1886, and several reprints in recognition he was decorated by the King of Siam with the Order of the White Elephant); Pearls of the Faith, or Islam's Rosary, 1883, 3d ed., 1884; the Secret of Death, 1885. ' * ARNOLD, Matthew, D.C.L. (Edinburgh, 1869, Oxford, 1870), son of Thomas Arnold of Rugby b. at Laleham, near Staines, Dec. 24, 1822; entered Balliol College, Oxford; won the Newdigate prize for English verse (1843); graduated in honors, 1844; became a Fellow of Oriel College (1845); a lay inspector of schools, 1851; was profe or of poetry at Oxford from 1857 to 1867. He received the order of Commander of the Crown of India, from the King of Italy, in 1876. In 1883 he was put upon the civil pension list for three hundred pounds, in recognition of his services to literature. In 1884 he visited America on a lecture-tour. Besides poems, and numerous e ays upon literary topics, he has published the following bearing on religion: Culture and Anarchy, an E ay in Political and Social Criticism, London, 1870; St. Paul and Protestant ism, with an E ay on Puritanism and the Church of England, 1871; Literature and Dogma, an E ay towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible, 1873; God and the Bible, 1875; Last E ays on Church and Religion, 1877. He has also edited, with prefaces and notes, The Great Prophecy of Israel's Restoration (Isa. xl.-lxvi.), 1872, rev. ed., 1875; Isaiah of Jerusalem (Isa. i.- xxxix., 1884. *