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Riverside College Classics
SELECTIONS
FROM THE PROSE WORKS OF
MATTHEW ARNOLD
EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES
BY
WILLIAM SAVAGE JOHNSON, PH.D.
Professor of English Literature in the University of Kansas
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The essays included in this issue of the Riverside College Classics are reprinted by permission of, and by arrangement with, The Macmillan Company, the American publishers of Arnold's writings.
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