"I have forgotten the exact wording of the topic," wrote Madeline slowly, in a painstaking backhand that she resorted to in times of stress, "but 'Matthew Arnold and the Ten-Minute Test' occurs to me as an interesting point of departure. How would Matthew Arnold view a ten-minute exposition of his characteristic qualities by a class of young ladies (most of them deep-dyed Philistines)? I fancy he would say----"