ARNOLD, SIR EDWIN (1832-1904), British poet, scholar and journalist, was born on June io 1832, and was educated at. the King's school, Rochester; King's college, London; and Uni versity college, Oxford, where in 1852 he gained the Newdigate prize for a poem on Belshazzar's feast. Arnold went- out to India as the principal of the government Sanskrit college at Poona. Returning to England in 1861 he joined the staff of the Daily Telegraph, with which he continued to be associated for more than 4o years. He was a brilliant journalist, full of ideas and of enthusiasm for his work. Nevertheless he was best known to his contemporaries as a poet, author of the Light of Asia, or the Great Renunciation (Mahabhinshkramana) (1879), an Indian epic. In it the life and teaching of Buddha are expounded with much wealth of local colour and not a little felicity of versifica tion. Oriental scholars complained that it gave a false impression of Buddhist doctrine; on the other hand the suggested analogy between Sakyamuni and Christ offended the taste of some devout Christians. The latter criticism probably suggested to Arnold the idea of a second narrative poem of which the central figure should be the founder of Christianity, as the founder of Buddhism had been that of the first. But The Light of the World (1891) , in which this idea took shape, failed to repeat the success attained by The Light of Asia. In his later years Arnold resided for some time in Japan, and his third wife was a Japanese lady. In Seas and Lands (1891) and Japonica (1892) he gives an interesting study of Japanese life. Sir Edwin Arnold, who had received the K.C.I.E. in 1888, died March 24 Arnold's other works include: The Book of Good Counsels, from the Sanskrit of the Hitopadesa 0861) ; The Indian Song of Songs, from the Sanskrit of the Gita Govinda of Jayadeva (1875) ; Indian Idylls (1883) and The Song Celestial (1885) , both from the Maha barata ; and other translations. He also wrote a History of the Administration of British India under the late Marquis of Dalhousie (1862-64). His poetical works were collected in 8 vols. in 1888.