After 1846 the editorship of the _Athenaeum_ was in other hands, but the proprietor's vigilant interest in it never abated, and was transmitted to his grandson, who continued to the end of his days not only to write for it, but also to read the proofs every week, and repeatedly for brief periods to act as editor. When in 1846 Mr. Dilke curtailed his work on the _Athenaeum_, it was to take up other duties. For three years he was manager of the recently established _Daily News_, working in close fellowship with his friends John Forster and Charles Dickens. From the time when he gave up this task till his death in 1864 Mr. Dilke's life had one all-engrossing preoccupation--the training of his grandson Charles. But to the last, literary research employed him. In 1849 he helped to establish _Notes and Queries_ 'to be a paper in which literary men could answer each other's questions'; and his contributions to this paper [Footnote: Its founder and first editor, Mr. W. J. Thorns (afterwards Librarian of the House of Lords), had for three years been contributing to the _Athenaeum_ columns headed "Folk-Lore"--a word coined by him for the purpose. The correspondence which grew out of this threatened to swamp other departments of the paper, and so the project was formed of starting a journal entirely devoted to the subjects which he had been treating. Mr. Dilke, being consulted, approved the plan, and lent it his full support. In 1872, when Mr. Thorns retired from control of the paper, Sir Charles Dilke bought it, putting in Dr. Doran as editor; and thenceforward it was published from the same office as the _Athenaeum_.] and to the _Athenaeum_ never ceased; though so unambitious of any personal repute was he that in all his long career he never signed an article with his own name, nor identified himself with a pseudonym. A man of letters, he loved learning and literature for their own sake; yet stronger still than this love was his desire to transmit to his heirs his own gathered knowledge, experience, and convictions.