Arthur Helps

Sir Arthur Helps (* July 10, 1813 in Streatham, † March 7, 1875 in London ) was an English writer.

Life

Helps studied at Cambridge University, then was private secretary to Lord Monteagle (then Finance Minister), later of Lord Morpeth while its effectiveness as Secretary of State for Ireland, joined in 1859 as secretary to the Privy Council in the place of WL Bathurst and in 1872 raised to the baronet. He died on March 7, 1875 in London.

Works

His writing career began in 1841 with " essays, written in the Intervals of business", followed up by at long intervals: " The Claims of labor" (1847 ); " Companions of my solitude" (1850 ); "The conquerors of the New World and Their bondsmen " (1852, 2 vols ); "Friends in council" (1854, 2 vols, new episode 1857), in which major issues of policy and social reform are discussed in dialogue; "The Spanish conquest in America" ​​( 1855-61, 4 vols ); " Organization in daily life" (1862 ); "The life of Las Casas " (1868 ); "The life of Pizarro " (1869 ); " Realmah " (1869, 2 vols ); " Brevia: short essays and aphorisms " ( 2nd ed 1871); " Conversations on war and general culture" (1871 ); "Thoughts upon government" (1871 ); "The life of Hernando Cortes and the Conquest of Mexico" (1871, 2 vols ); " Talk about animals and Their masters" (1873 ); " Life and labors of Thomas Brassey " (5th edition 1876) and "social pressure" (1875 ). Of his works of fiction, we mention the tragedy " Oulita the serf " (1858, 2nd ed 1873) and the historical novel " Ivan de Biron, or the Russian court" (1874 ).