[162] The first step in the artistic life of Burne-Jones, she says, “was a series of pen-and-ink designs made at the suggestion of his friend Mr. Maclaren. These drawings were intended for illustrations to a volume of Ballads upon the Fairy Mythology of Europe, which Maclaren had written with the intention of publishing immediately.... The scheme included a frontispiece, title-page, illustrations and ornamental letters. They were begun early in 1854 and carried on for about two years and a half, and in the series may be traced his development from the time that he first went into the Wytham woods to draw leaves and branches until the day when he discovered that the human form was the alphabet of the language which he was henceforth to use.” The frontispiece, title-page, and a tail-piece on page 279 are all that appear in “The Fairy Family: a Series of Ballads and Metrical Tales Illustrating the Fairy Mythology of Europe,” which Maclaren published anonymously in 1857 (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts). A second edition, published in 1873, bears Maclaren’s name on the title-page and is dedicated “To my daughter Mabel” (London, Macmillan & Co.). [163] In his “System of Physical Education,” 1869, pp. 72, 73 and 93. [164] Maclaren’s “system of measurements to determine the rate of growth and development” is given in Appendix H of the volume just quoted. Appendix E contains a “table of measurements of first detachment of non-commissioned officers selected to be qualified as military gymnastic instructors,” showing increases for the seven and a half months between September 11 and April 30; and a similar table of measurements of the second detachment, with increases for the period extending from October 27, 1862, to July 12, 1863. [165] In September of 1864 Mrs. Maclaren opened at Summertown a private school intended to prepare boys for the (endowed) public schools. The venture proved a very successful one from the start, and was continued by her son-in-law. Alexander Macmillan, one of the founders of the publishing house which bears that name, had made the acquaintance of the Maclarens in the summer of 1864, and by his efforts did much to enlist the interest of influential patrons, in addition to sending his own son George and two nephews. See pp. 225-227 in the “Life and Letters of Alexander Macmillan,” by Charles L. Graves (London, Macmillan & Co., 1910). [166] London, Macmillan & Co., 1866. [167] London, Macmillan & Co. [168] Vol. =7=, 397-399, 418-421, and 458-460 (March 27, April 3 and 17, 1873). [169] Oxford, Clarendon Press. A second edition, unchanged, was issued the year after the author’s death (Oxford, 1885), and a third, reëdited and enlarged by his son, Wallace Maclaren, appeared ten years later (Oxford, 1895).