[31] In addition to Sir Charles Dilke, Sir Henry Fowler and others already mentioned, the writer is indebted for invaluable help in the preparation of facts and the revision of proofs in this portion of the book to Mr W. J. Soulsby the accomplished private secretary to a succession of Lord Mayors of London. [32] An account of the University Settlements in East London. Edited by John M. Knapp, Oxford House, Bethnal Green. Rivington, Percival & Co. 1895. [33] _England: Its People, Polity and Pursuits._ 2 vols. Cassell & Co. 1 vol. Chapman & Hall. [34] This usage varies under different Administrations and at different epochs. Mr Forster [1870] was an actual Education Minister. His Liberal successors have been so since; his Conservative successors only in a qualified sense. [35] See Report of the Secondary Education Commission, vol. i. _passim_, but especially, pp. 44, and seq. [36] These have produced not a few famous men even in this generation: Thus Bishop Stortford shares with Oriel, Oxford the honour of educating Mr Cecil Rhodes. [37] As the writer has a personal reason for knowing, this is the year in which the amalgamation first took a definite shape, though it was not perhaps fully carried out till a little later. [38] This point was dwelt upon strongly in the letters of London correspondents to the French press at the time of the 1887 Jubilee. [39] Recent legislation providing for the information of the working classes on this point, by the display of lists in factories, has not given entire satisfaction to the persons interested. [40] The statistics showing the new rungs in the educational ladder in this chapter have been supplied to the writer by Mr G. H. Croad of the London School Board, by other gentlemen in like positions and by private friends in the Education Department. Thanks are also due to Sir John Gorst, and to Mr Mundella for the kind trouble they have taken in checking the facts of the narrative portion, and for making valuable suggestions. [41] This, during the youth of the late Rev W. G. Cookesley was said by that authority to be, not hyperbole, but historical fact. [42] This title has been denied to the King here named, but Waynflete, also an Eton benefactor as well as official, was himself transferred by Henry from Winchester to Eton, becoming Headmaster and Provost successively. [43] For the facts and figures in this chapter showing the relations of the old public schools to the new educational tests, as for the facts of Eton expenditure, the writer is indebted to the Rev. Edmond Warre, D.D., the Headmaster, who has placed at his disposal all the necessary data. [44] See _Eothen_, edn. 1896--Blackwood, p. 7. [45] Now in vogue at nearly all the pleasure towns in southern England. [46] The name of Frank as well as of Charles Mathews was often on the bills of this theatre during the sixties. [47] Census of England and Wales, 1891. Vol. iv. General Report, pp. 64 and fg.