""Friends In Council"" is a collection of essays written by Sir Arthur Helps, a British author and civil servant, and first published in 1849. The book consists of 12 essays, each of which is a dialogue between a group of friends discussing various topics such as education, religion, politics, and social issues. The conversations are insightful and thought-provoking, and the characters are well-drawn and engaging. Helps uses the format of a conversation...