The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . se that language in literary publications. Hedied at Perleberg, Prussia, May 30, 1714. ARNOLD, John, a watchmaker. He was an im-prover of the expansion-balance detached escape-ment, the compensation-balance and the cylindricalbalance-spring of the chronometer. He was bornat Cornwall, England, in 1744, and died in 1799. ARNOLD, Lauren Briggs, an American dairy-man; born at Fairfield, New York, Aug. 13, became prominently identified in originatingand putting into practice improved methods indairying a
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . se that language in literary publications. Hedied at Perleberg, Prussia, May 30, 1714. ARNOLD, John, a watchmaker. He was an im-prover of the expansion-balance detached escape-ment, the compensation-balance and the cylindricalbalance-spring of the chronometer. He was bornat Cornwall, England, in 1744, and died in 1799. ARNOLD, Lauren Briggs, an American dairy-man; born at Fairfield, New York, Aug. 13, became prominently identified in originatingand putting into practice improved methods indairying and cheese-making. He lectured upon thesematters; was the author of a standard work, Ameri-can Dairying, and was appointed lecturer upondairy-husbandry at Cornell. He died at Rochester,New York, March 7, 1888. ARNOLD, Matthew, one of the foremost ofrecent English poets, the Sainte-Beuve of Englishcritics, the .\postle of Culture, and the son ofDr. Thomas Arnold, head master at Rugby. He wasborn at Laleham, near Staines, Dec. 24, 1822,and received hiseducation at Winchester, Rugby and. MATTHEW ARNOLD. Balliol College, Oxford. At Rugby, while in hisseventeenth year, he won a prize with a poem onAlaric at Rome; the sameyear being elected to ascholarship in Balliol Col-lege (1840). Three yearslater he won the Newdi-gate prize with a poem onCromwell, and the nextyear he graduated withhonors, and was elected afellow of Oriel College(1845). In 1847 he be-^came private secretary toLord Lansdowne, thenlord-president of thecouncil. Upon his mar-riage in 1851, he was appointed an inspector ofschools, which position he held until 1866, whenhe resigned. During this period he made frequentvisits to the Continent, and published valuable andsuggestive reports, in the form of blue-books, oneducation in his native country and in France,Germany and Holland. In 1854 he published a collection of new and oldpoems, which established his reputation as a poet ofchaste and classic power. Thus the way was
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