The idea of homes for old people from educated circles
who are left alone in the world, but could pay two or three pounds a week for board and lodging and social amenities and a little special care when ill, has always appealed to me. I might conceivably need just that myself some day ; so might most of us. So I am very glad to learn that a letter in The Times a few months ago appealing for support for what is known as the Fellowship Houses Trust has evoked the gift from one source of Lio,000 for the establishment of a Fellowship House in Warwickshire. I note that Dane End, Lord Gladstone's old home in Hertfordshire, is now a Fellowship House ; and I note it with interest because I remember Lord Gladstone telling me in the garden there, one summer afternoon in 1928, of the steps he and his brother were about to take to force a man who, they held, had been besmirching their great father's memory to bring a libel action against them. They succeeded.
The action was brought. The plaintiff 1091 ANUS.
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