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Of the ssss1 there is but little to say. ssss1 contains guiding principles, ssss1 is an interesting and curious output from a man with no ear for tune or time or harmony, and ssss1 is but an example of how eagerly he desired that the Church should guide as well as minister to the people. ssss1 is another plea that the kindly intentioned should not injure the character of the recipient, and that the crucial question, “Is our aim the self-extinction of our organization,” should be borne in mind by the Governors and enthusiastic supporters of even the best philanthropic agencies.

The ssss1 Section might have been much larger, but the papers selected bear on the three sides of the subject which my husband in recent years thought to be the most important. ssss1 but carried on the ideals towards which he ever pressed, from the days when as a Curate at St. Mary’s, Bryanston Square, he taught the monitors of the Church Schools, through the days when the first London Pupil Teachers’ Centre had its birthplace in Toynbee Hall, through the days when he established the Scholarship Committee whose work was to select suitable pupil teachers and support them through their University careers in Oxford and Cambridge, through the days when he rejoiced at the abandonment of the vast system of pupil teachers,—to the days when he demanded that teachers for the poorest children should be called from the cultivated classes, and take their calling as a mission, to be recognized and remunerated, as an honoured profession undertaken by those anxious to render Social Service.