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 for fifteen years, the larger half of them spent in the Deanery of Christ Church. She threw herself with all her heart into the duty of entertaining others—from the highest to the humblest; and, so filling a great position with transparent sincerity of purpose, found, in the very unreserve of service, its own healthy gladness of spirit. The whole community knew her brightness in entertaining. Hundreds of undergraduates enjoyed the lively kindliness of her tea-table. Yet few, perhaps, knew how deeply her heart was engaged in the effort which appeared as mere brightness. Nor was this true only of College life. She took her part in visiting the wives of the reservists from Oxford. She had her own correspondents among those who had gone from Christ Church to the front. She was keen to keep touch of interest, if possible, with them all. She maintained her correspondence with others also (a rarer effort!) who had gone to the front in a more exacting service—the members of the Oxford Mission to Calcutta. She threw her heart into her welcome, year by year, of the Whit Monday visitors from 'St. Frideswide's' in Poplar. Few things were nearer to her heart than the meetings, religious and social, of the 'mothers' connected, in different ways, with Christ Church. Through these meetings, again, she worked for those at the