SIR ARTHUR HELPS was born in Surrey, England, July 10th, 1813. After occupying various positions in the English Civil Service, he became clerk of the privy council, a position in which he won the friendship of Queen Victoria and found leisure to write lives of Las Casas, Columbus, Cortez, and Pizarro, as well as several romances and his later volumes of essays. The essays to which he owes his celebrity, however, appeared in 1847 and 1851, as “Friends in Council,”—a series of discussions among “Milverton,” “Ellesmere,” and “Dunsford,” three friends who read essays to each other and comment upon them. Their dialogue has been universally rejected in extracting from this book, but such essays as “The Art of Living with Others” will continue to be printed and reprinted as long as men are human enough to need the help of those who know their weakness because of sharing it. Helps died at London, March 7th, 1875.