The two articles on _Oxford and the Working People_ and _A Race between Education and Ruin_ only inadequately represent the thought he gave to the matter, or the deeply rooted, great branched hopes he had entwined round the reform of the University,--but for many reasons he felt it wiser to stand aside and watch younger men wield the sword of the pen. So his writings on this subject are few, but that matters less than otherwise it would have done, because the group of friends who have decided to establish “Barnett House” in his memory are among those in Oxford who shared his work, cared for his plans, and believed in his visions, created as they were on knowledge of the industrial workers and the crippling conditions of their lives. So as “Barnett House” is established and grows strong, and in conjunction with the Toynbee Hall Social Service Fellowship will bring the University and Industrial Centres into closer and ever more sympathetic relationship, it is not past the power of a faith, however puny and wingless, to imagine that the reforms my husband saw “darkly” may be seen “face to face,” and in realization show once more how “the Word can be made flesh”. In some Sections I have included papers from my pen, not because I think they add much to the value of the book, but because my husband insisted on the previous volumes of PRACTICABLE SOCIALISM being composed of our joint writings as well as illustrative of our joint work, or to use his words in the 1888 volume: “Each Essay is signed by the writer, but in either case they represent our common thought, as all that has been done represents our common work”. HENRIETTA O. BARNETT. _17 July, 1915._ CONTENTS PAGE RELIGION. 1. Religion of the People _Canon Barnett_ 1 2. Cathedral Reform _Canon Barnett_ 17 3. Cathedrals and Modern Needs _Canon Barnett_ 32 RECREATION. 4. The Children’s Country Holiday Fun’ _Mrs. S. A. Barnett_ 41 5. Recreation of the People _Canon Barnett_ 53 6. Hopes of the Hosts _Mrs. S. A. Barnett_ 70 7. Easter Monday on Hampstead Heath _Canon Barnett_ 74 8. Holidays and Schooldays _Canon Barnett_ 77 The Failure of Holidays _Canon Barnett_ 83 9. Recreation in Town and Country _Mrs. S. A. Barnett_ 89 SETTLEMENTS. 10. Settlements of University Men in _Canon Barnett_ 96 Great Towns 11. The Beginnings of Toynbee Hall _Mrs. S. A. Barnett_ 107 12. Twenty-one Years of University _Canon Barnett_ 121 Settlements POVERTY AND LABOUR. 13. The Ethics of the Poor Law _Mrs. S. A. Barnett_ 132 14. Poverty, Its Cause and Cure _Canon Barnett_ 143