The existence of the Society is due to my daughter's initiative; its constitution was planned entirely by her, and she was the soul of the movement during its first years, though delicate health and superabundant occupation made her decline to be a member of the Executive Committee.

"The declining of a word is the giving of its different endings."

The decline of the House of Lords has been the last triumph of the House of Lawyers, and we are governed now to a large extent not so much by the people for the people as by the barristers for the barristers.

The present decline in business is clear revenue to the water-lilies, and these waters are higher than usual because the idle factories do not draw them off.