MR. MAURICE'S INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS. Lye THE EINTOR OF
THB "SFEOTAT011.1 Sin,—Knowing that the name of the Rev. F. D. Maurice is cherished by many of the readers of the Spectator, I venture to ask you to insert an appeal on behalf of the Industrial School for Girls, of which he was the founder in 1867. Begun when Mr. Maurice was incumbent of St. Peter's, Yore Street, this school was maintained on his departure to Cambridge as a memorial of his ministry, and after his death as an act of personal affection for one who taught men, above all things, to prize the childlike character. For some years the school has been lodged at a disadvantage in two houses in Charlotte Street, Portland Place, separated from one another by some distance of street. Having failed to find a new home into which to move the forty girls and their staff of teachers, the committee have determined to relinquish one of the two houses, to concentrate their work in the other, and increase the accommodation by erecting a large schoolroom in the play- ground. The cost of the new building, together with the needful refitting of the old portion, will reach to upwards of B500.
It is proposed, on the completion of the change, that the school should be known for the future as the Maurice Girls' Home. The committee believe that there. are old intimates of Mr. Maurice left who will not forget the work he had at heart, younger disciples who owe much of themselves to his teaching, and others to whom his name, if less familiar, is still associated with beauty of character and breadth of hope for humanity.
Special donations may be paid to the account of the Girls' Home at the National and Provincial Bank of England, Limited, 53 Baker Street, W.; or sent to the Rev. Harry Jones (chairman), 8 York Gate, Regent's Park, W., or to Miss E. Garrocl (hon. sec.), 10 Harley Street, W.—I am, Sir, Ike., B. H. ALFORD.
St. Luke's Vicarage, Nutford Place, W., June 17th.
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