Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration. See 54219-h.htm or 54219-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54219/54219-h/54219-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54219/54219-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/littleenggallery00guinrich Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). A carat character is used to denote superscription. A single character following the carat is superscripted (example: 9^a). [Illustration] A LITTLE ENGLISH GALLERY by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY [Illustration] New York Harper and Brothers MDCCCXCIV Copyright, 1894, by Harper & Brothers. All rights reserved. TO EDMUND GOSSE THIS FRIENDLY TRESPASS ON HIS FIELDS PREFATORY NOTE THE studies in this book are chosen from a number written at irregular intervals, and from sheer interest in their subjects, long ago. Portions of them, or rough drafts of what has since been wholly remodelled from fresher and fuller material at first hand, have appeared within five years in _The Atlantic Monthly_, _Macmillan’s_, _The Catholic World_, and _Poet-Lore_; and thanks are due the magazines for permission to reprint them. Yet more cordial thanks, for kind assistance on biographical points, belong to the Earl of Powis; the Rev. R. H. Davies, Vicar of old St. Luke’s, Chelsea; the Rev. T. Vere Bayne, of Christchurch, and H. E. D. Blakiston, Esq., of Trinity College, Oxford; T. W. Lyster, Esq., of the National Library of Ireland; Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, Esq.; Miss Langton, of Langton-by-Spilsby; the Vicars of Dauntsey, Enfield Highway, and Montgomery, and especially those of High Ercall and Speke; and the many others in England through whose courtesy and patience the tracer of these unimportant sketches has been able to make them approximately life-like. CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I. LADY DANVERS (1561-1627) 1 II. HENRY VAUGHAN (1621-1695) 53 III. GEORGE FARQUHAR (1677-1707) 119 IV. TOPHAM BEAUCLERK (1739-1780) AND BENNET LANGTON (1741-1800) 171 V. WILLIAM HAZLITT (1778-1830) 229 I LADY DANVERS 1561-1627