EDWARD AUGUSTUS FREEMAN, essayist and historian, was born in Staffordshire, England, in 1823. After graduating from Trinity College, Oxford, in 1845, he was connected with the university as Fellow of his college. He was an examiner in Modern History at Oxford for a number of years prior to his appointment as regius professor of Modern History in 1884. He filled this place, and at the same time wrote one volume after another of history and essays until his health failed and he went to Spain, where he died March 16th, 1892. Among his works are “An Essay on Window Tracery,” “The History and Conquest of the Saracens,” “History of the Norman Conquest,” “General Sketch of European History,” “Lectures to American Audiences,” and “Some Impressions of the United States.” Many of his most striking essays, which were written for English reviews, are still uncollected.