JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE, one of the most prolific essayists and critics of the nineteenth century, was born in Devonshire, England, April 23d, 1818. At Oriel College, Oxford, where he went when the “Tractarian movement” was in progress, he came under the influence of John Henry Newman and his party. As a result he took deacon’s orders in the Church, and though after a change of views he conscientiously resigned both his orders and a fellowship, he retained through life an inclination to theological controversy which connects many of his essays so closely with ephemeral disputes that they can hardly survive them. He wrote much, however, that will continue to be read by all students of the literature of his time. Among his more important works are “Luther; a Short Biography”; “Nemesis of Faith”; “History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth”; “The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century”; “Cæsar; a Sketch,” and “Short Studies of Great Subjects,”—the latter a collection of his essays. He died in London, October 20th, 1894.