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 came out in the "Art Journal," of which Mr. S. C. Hall was the founder and first editor. His salary was £600 a year, and he afterwards had a pension of £150 from the Civil List. Mrs. Hall also enjoyed a pension of £300 a year from the same source. Some idea of her activity as a philanthropist may be formed when we hear of all the charities she promoted, the Hospital for Consumption at Brompton, the Governesses' Institute, the Home for decayed Gentlewomen, and the Nightingale Fund. At a bazaar for the Chelsea Hospital she had a stall which added £450 to the Hospital funds. A raffle was got up for a handsome papier mache chair, which had been presented to Mrs. Hall by the manufacturers. She put in for it, and a few minutes afterwards, loud cheers were heard and a procession was formed headed by Charles and Henry Kingsley, who advanced and presented her with the chair. She kept it for many years, and then gave it to the Hospital, where it now is.

Both the Hails were enthusiastic on the subject of temperance. One of Mrs. Hall's temperance tracts' bears the curious title, "Digging his Grave with a Wine Glass." In her girlish days she had, no doubt, seen something of the two and three bottlemen, who were so common in the country at the beginning of the century.

Years of useful work glided peacefully by. On