Memoir of Rosamond Davenport - Hill. By Ethel C. Metcalfe. (Longman and
Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—Rosamond Davenport-Hill was the eldest of the three daughters of the well-known Recorder of Birmingham. The three were devoted to good works, Rosamond's special line being at first prison reform, the great object of her father's life, and afterwards the development of primary education. In 1879 she was returned to the London School Board for the City division, a constituency which she seems to have chosen because there were no women electors in it. She remained a member for twenty years, her last term of office having been undertaken under the pressure of failing health. No one could have been more diligent. Towards the end of her term she made two hundred and fifty actual attendances out of a possible total of two hundred and sixty-eight, and this was when her strength was already failing. She lived for five years after her resignation, occupying her time with kindly thought for others. This outline of her life is bare and cold. Let our readers fill it in. withMiss Metcalfe's touching and instructive narrative.
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