ESSAYS

OTHER WORKS BY Mr. A. C. BENSON
In Verse
POEMS, 1893 LYRICS, 1895
In Prose
MEMOIRS OF
ARTHUR HAMILTON, 1886
ARCHBISHOP LAUD: A STUDY,
1887
MEN OF MIGHT (in conjunction
with H. F. W. TATHAM), 1890

ESSAYS

BY
ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON
OF ETON COLLEGE

Post aliquot, mea regna videns, mirabor aristas!

LONDON
WILLIAM HEINEMANN
1896

To
HENRY JAMES
THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED
BY
HIS AFFECTIONATE FRIEND
THE AUTHOR