ON November 13, 1862, Arthur Hugh Clough died at Florence. Matthew Arnold dedicated to him his beautiful elegy, ' Thyrsis, ' and probably Clough is by now as well known by this as by any of his own poetry. But in his own day he was a notable figure, and he is worth recalling not only as a poet, but as a pupil of Dr. Arnold at Rugby, a temporary follower of Newman at Oxford, and a Victorian ' character ' who knew almost all the great men of Victorian society and took part in most of its ' movements.' Mr. F. L. Lucas, who will talk about Clough this evening, is a well-known man of letters and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.