FREDERIC WILLIAM FARRAR, the celebrated English pulpit orator, has long been a favorite contributor to English reviews, but perhaps his best work as an essayist was done in “Woman’s Work in the Home,” an admirable series of essays in the mode of Samuel Smiles, which deserve their extensive popularity in England and America. He was born at Bombay, India, August 7th, 1831. Educated for the English Church at Oxford and Cambridge, he was ordained in 1854. Twenty years later, after notable work as a pulpit orator and public educator, he was appointed Canon of Westminster, and in 1895 Dean of Canterbury. Besides his essays, he has written several novels and a number of theological works. His “Life of Christ” has been widely circulated and much admired.