The Prime Minister's visit to Toynbee Hall on Monday brought
together a varied and interesting assembly of old residents—M.P.s, Civil Servants, lawyers and many others, a few of the veterans going back to the days of the first warden, Canon Barnett. Mr. Attlee a former resident himself, paid deserved tribtite to the pioneer work of Toynbee men in connection with old-age pensions—that espe- cially—education, care committees, and the like. The visit, inciden- tally, makes relevant a reference to the present Arnold Toynbee, for whose monumental Study of History the Prime Minister has an unqualified admiration. In thus applying himself to history in his leisure moments Mr. Attlee has distinguished precedent. Mr. Lloyd George was an enthusiastic student of Guglielmo Ferrero's Greatness and Decline of Rome.
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