We regret to record the death at Fox How, Amblcside,
last Sunday, of Miss Frances Arnold, the youngest and last surviving child of Arnold of Rugby. She was in her ninetieth year. Arnold died at Fox How in 1842; his widow died in 1873; and since then Miss Frances Arnold had continued to live there, making her home a centre of attraction to various generations of her distinguished family and hospitably allowing it to be a place of pilgrimage for admirers from many lands. Few women have kept their friendships so fresh by means of constant correspondence. In a very sym- pathetic obituary notice in the Times we read that Arthur Stanley and Dr. Montagu Butler used to write to her every year on the anniversary of the death of her father. Miss Arnold used to say that she had received five Laureates at Fox how. In particular, it has many memories of Arthur Clough, the beloved friend of Miss Arnold's elder brothers. Clough was the subject of the exquisite dirge, " Thyrsis." In Clough's Bothie Philip, the hero, is said to have been a compound of Clough himself and of Tom Arnold, the father of Mrs. Ilumphry Ward. Miss Arnold was also the friend of many Americans, including Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Wilson.
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