“A Mrs. Moule had been head mistress of the Purley Church of England school for twelve years, and had conducted it during that time efficiently, with nothing to be urged either against her abilities or her character. But Mrs. Moule had a daughter who loved not wisely but too well. The result was that the girl had to get married hastily. She left the village until the child was born; then she went to stay with her mother for a few days. The rector of the parish—one of those nice, charitable Christian gentlemen with whom our readers are by this time well acquainted—demanded that Mrs. Moule should turn her daughter out of doors for at least six months. The mother refused, her ‘conduct’ was brought to the notice of the school managers by the holy man aforesaid, and she was dismissed her employment. The Education Committee of the Berks County Council supported the parson and the managers in their monstrous act of injustice, and tried to burke discussion. The whole question was then raised at a special meeting of the Council, when the decision arrived at was ‘that this Council expresses a wish that the Education Committee will, should opportunity offer, sanction Mrs. Moule’s appointment to a similar post to that which she recently held.’” Here we see in working that truly British love of compromise, which has been aptly defined as a middle course by which neither party is satisfied. The church of Purley lies quite remote, at the end of the scattered cottages, and through a woodland path. The body of it has been rebuilt, but the red-brick seventeenth-century tower remains, with a sculptured heraldic shield of the Bolingbrokes on its south face. INDEX Transcriber’s Note: This index originally appeared in Volume II and has been copied here for the convenience of the reader. Abingdon, i. 159, 216-33 Ashton Keynes, i. 22-30 Augustine, St., i. 47 Bablockhythe, i. 161 Bampton, i. 121-4 Barnes, ii. 253-8 Basildon, i. 295 Benson, i. 268 Besselsleigh, i. 157-60 Beverley Brook, ii. 258 Binsey, i. 190-92 Bisham, ii. 45-50, 201 Bourne End, ii. 56 Boveney, ii. 109 Bray, ii. 69-81 Brentford, ii. 220-36 Brightwell, i. 268 ⸺ Salome, i. 268 Buckland, i. 118-21 Burford, i. 105-7 “Burlington,” ii. 251 Burnham Abbey, ii. 105 Buscot, i. 89-92 Cæsar, Julius, ii. 157, 221-9 Cambridge, H.R.H. Duke of, ii. 64 Carfax Conduit, i. 215 Castle Eaton, i. 50-58 Caversham, i. 304-7 Chamey Brook, i. 124 Chertsey, ii. 150, 161, 201 Chiswick, ii. 245-53 Cholsey, i. 293 Churn, River, i. 17-19, 45, 94 Cirencester, i. 9-13, 18 Clanfield, i. 107-9 Clewer, ii. 110 Clifton Hampden, i. 247, 252-6 Cliveden, ii. 60-64 Coln, River, i. 66, 73, 74 Colne, River, ii. 141 Cookham, ii. 59