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ARTHUR HELPS

WITH

AN INTRODUCTION AND

BY

F. J. ROWE M.A.

AND

W. T. WEBB M.A.

PROFESSORS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, PRESIDENCY CO

London

MACMILLAN AND (

AND NEW YORK

1890

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ARTHUR HELPS, fourth and younge Helps, merchant, was born on the 1 he was educated at Eton and at Tri After having been private

bridge. Spring Rice, afterwards Lord Mont cellor of the Exchequer, and subs Morpeth, then Chief Secretary of St was in 1860 appointed Clerk of the 1872 he was created a K.C.B. He March, 1875, in the 62nd year of his

Helps is described in literary biog Essayist, Novelist, and Miscellaneou following is a list of his principal wo of their publication :-Thoughts in th Crowd (1835); Essays written in the I (1841); King Henry II.: an Historic Catherine Douglas: a Tragedy (1843); 7 (1844); Friends in Council (1847-9); the New World and their Bondsmen (18my Solitude (1851); The Spanish Co (1855-61); Oulita the Serf: a Tragedy (1869); Casimir Maremma (1870); B

1 These Essays are dedicated to Lord

2 Friends in Council is dedicated to L vii

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