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Arnold Haultain
1857–1941
A quietly versatile writer whose career ranged from military history to reflective essays, with a long and important connection to the thinker Goldwin Smith. His work has the feel of an observant man writing across subjects, places, and generations.
2 Audiobooks
Hints for Lovers
by Arnold Haultain
Of Walks and Walking Tours: An Attempt to find a Philosophy and a Creed
by Arnold Haultain
About the author
Theodore Arnold Haultain was a British writer, born in Cannanore, India, in 1857 and later closely associated with Canada. He is especially remembered for serving for many years as secretary to Goldwin Smith in Toronto, and after Smith's death he helped preserve that legacy by writing a memoir and acting as literary executor.
His books show a wide range of interests. They include historical writing such as The War in the Soudan and the Causes Which Led to It, along with essays and lighter reflective work, including Hints for Lovers. That mix of subjects gives his bibliography an appealing breadth: serious, literary, and often personal.
Haultain died in 1941. Reliable biographical details available online are fairly brief, but they consistently portray him as a writer whose own work and editorial efforts helped connect Victorian and early 20th-century literary culture.