Octavia Hill’s influence was great in this country; but it passed beyond its borders. One of the most interesting reports issued in recent years on the management of house property has been that of the Octavia Hill Association, at Philadelphia, who report the uniform success of management on the lines laid down by Octavia Hill.[1] In Holland, also, her influence has been great; and at Amsterdam, for instance, all municipal house property, which is extensive, is managed by women who have been trained in her methods. Footnote 1: See _Good Housing that Pays_, by Fullerton L. Waldo. Philadelphia: The Harper Press, 1012-20 Chancellor Street. 1917. The ideal in these matters, I think, is self-management, where the tenants in a group of houses manage their own affairs with a social regard to their own real interests, an almost impossible result at the present time unless the tenants have a substantial financial stake in the property. We are very far indeed from this solution as yet, though every effort is needed towards achieving it; and one disappointing result of the State-assisted scheme of houses is the very poor showing made by Public Utility Societies. But a large measure of self-management is not precluded from the scheme of management on Octavia Hill’s lines, as, indeed, has been demonstrated in practice. There should be no spirit of patronage in management; if, as happens, the tenant comes to look upon the property manager as a counsellor and friend, this should grow out of the business management and as an incident to it. Octavia Hill and her successors did not work simply by the light of nature, or believe that women, as such, had a God-given aptitude for this business, though, house management being primarily a matter for the wife and mother, it naturally opens a field for which women should be well fitted. But the same need of instruction arises whether the management be by men or by women. The pupil has to be put through a severe course of training; she has to be versed in the most important facts of the law as to rents, landlord and tenant, and sanitation; she has to be acquainted with the defects which occur in houses, and how most economically to remedy them. Above all, she has to acquire that measure of firmness, tact and sympathy without which success is not likely to be attained. A pupil who is likely to be fully successful must have a goodly measure of that personal aptitude which, though difficult to test by any system of examination, is as vitally necessary as are the essential technical qualifications.