NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE.
☞ The first number of ‘Fors Clavigera’ for the year 1873 will be published (I hope) on 1st January next, and in the course of that month the Index to the two first volumes, for the years 1871, 1872, as an extra number, which will be sent gratis to subscribers to the complete work.
Subscriptions to the St. George’s Fund have been sent to me to the amount of 104l. 1s. I have therefore sent a cheque for 100l. to be added to the fund accumulating in the hands of the trustees.
I think it inexpedient at present to give the names of my—not numerous—subscribers. Each of them knows his or her number in the subjoined list:—
| £ | s. | d. | ||
| 1. | Annual, 4l. (1871, 1872) | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 2. | Annual, 20l. (1871, 1872) | 40 | 0 | 0 |
| 3. | Gift (1871) | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 4. | Gift (1872) | 30 | 0 | 0 |
| 5. | Gift (1872) | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| 6. | Annual (1872) | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| £104 | 1 | 0 |
It is a beginning. We shall get on in time—better than some companies that have started with large capital.
The following cry of distress, from a bookseller of the most extended experience, has lain all this year by me, till I could find opportunity, which has not come, for commending its sound common sense in relation to several matters besides what it immediately touches on. It must stand on its own worth now, and is well able to do so.
“February 28th, 1872.
“It is often a question of considerable embarrassment for parents to know what to do with their children, and to place them in such a manner in a trade or profession as would best fit their talents and aptitudes.
“Notions of ‘gentility’ induce too many parents to bring up their sons for professions or the Civil Service, and their daughters for a status which they are unlikely to attain.