Edwin Arnold, an English author, born June 10, 1831. In 1852 he obtained at Oxford the Newdegate prize for one of his poems, became in 1834 second master in a principal school of Birmingham, and subsequently was president of the Sanskrit college at Poonah, British India, which office he resigned in 1860. He is a voluminous contributor to daily journals and periodicals, and has published "Poems, Narrative and Lyrical; " "Griselda, a Tragedy, and other Poems" (1856); "The Wreck of the Northern Belle" (1857); "History of the Administration of India under the late Marquis of Dal-housie" (2 vols., 1862-'4); and "Poets of Greece" (1869).