Excerpt from Ten Personal Studies I have to thank the Editors and Proprietors of the 'quarterly Review, ' the Nineteenth Century and After, ' and the 'fortnightly Review' for their per mission to publish such portions of the following Essays as appeared originally in those periodicals. I have also to thank Canon Gildea for his assist ance in revising my Oxford address on Cardinal Newman, delivered in the summer of 1907, and here printed for the first time, with a view to the greater care and accuracy of expression desirable before publication. Some changes have also, with the same object, been made in the Essay on Cardinals Newman and Manning, written in 1906. The first Essay, 'arthur James Balfour, a political Fabius Maximus, ' was written in 1905, and, except for verbal changes, I have left it unaltered - a word spoken at a very critical moment. I have, however, added a postscript written in the light of the events of the three years following. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.