A YEAR-BOOK OF BRAVE DEEDS.
[To TIM EDITOR OF THE "SrscrsTos."] SIR,—Amongst your readers must be many who are called upon by some small child to tell it a story, and, like myself, find that what the child loves best and demands above all is the "really truly" story of some brave deed. The thought came to me during a period of illness this winter, why should not we note day by day some of the brave deeds that again and again are recorded merely in a passing newspaper para- graph? Many of these convey a lesson of noble heroism and self-sacrifice, inspiring to young minds and helpful in their suggestions to parents and teachers. It will be remembered that the late Mr. G. F. Watts in 1887 proposed to commemorate the Jubilee of Queen Victoria by a national memorial of heroism, and that for this purpose he collected from the newspaper files at the British Museum many forgotten records of brave deeds, now engraved on the tablets at Postman's Park. A few of these will be found in the little book, "The Story of the Tablets." There must be many of your readers who from illness or other causes cannot take an active part in life's affairs, and yet would gladly occupy themselves in watching slender records such as these and rescuing them from oblivion. If this suggestion should appeal to them, I feel sure that help would be given by Mr. F. J. Gould, who is now lecturer to the Moral Education League, 6 York Buildings, Adelphi. He would be willing to receive cuttings from newspapers, or any authentic account of such acts, and through him and others a year-book of "Brave Deeds" collected from all parts of the world and of every nationality could be put into a form that would enable us all to have access to them for our children.—.
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