art and many who are no longer young are in the same case.  Moreover artists and philosophers are always attractive.  Mr. Holbrook Jackson and Mr. A.R.  Orage, at that time associated in “The New Age,” founded the group early in 1907, and soon obtained lecturers as distinguished, and audiences scarcely less numerous than the Society itself.  But in eighteen months “Art and Philosophy in Relation to Socialism” seems to have been exhausted, and after the summer of 1908 the Group disappears from the calendar.  Biology and Local Government had a somewhat longer but far less glorious career.  The meetings were small and more of the nature of classes.  Education is the life-work of a large class, which provides a sensible proportion of Fabian membership, and teachers are always eager to discuss and explain the difficult problems of their profession and the complex law which regulates it.  The Education Group has led a diligent and useful life; it prepared a tract (No. 156), “What an Education Committee can do (Elementary Schools),” and besides its private meetings it arranges occasional lectures open to the public, which sometimes attract large audiences.

The Nursery belongs to another class.  When a society, formed as many societies are, of quite young people, has existed over twenty years, the second generation begins to be adult, and wants to be quit of its parents.  Moreover the young desire, naturally, to hear themselves talk, whilst the others usually prefer the older and more famous personages.  So a number of younger members eagerly took up a plan which originated in the circle of the Bland family, for forming a group confined to the young in years or in membership in order to escape the overmastering presence of the elderly and experienced.  Sometimes they invite a senior to talk to them and to be heckled at leisure.  More often they provide their own fare from amongst themselves.  Naturally the Nursery is not exclusively devoted to economics and politics:  picnics and dances also have their place.  Some of the members eventually marry each other, and there is no better security for prolonged happiness in marriage than sympathy in regard to the larger issues of life.  The Nursery has produced one tract, No. 132, “A Guide to Books for Socialists,” described in the “Wells Report” as intended “to supplement or even replace that arid and indiscriminating catalogue, What to Read.”

Last in date, but by no means least in importance of the Groups of this period, was the Women’s Group, founded by Mrs. C.M.  Wilson, who after nearly twenty years of nominal membership had resumed her active interest in the Society.  The vigorous part taken by the women of the Society under the leadership of Mrs. Reeves in obtaining the only alteration yet made in the Basis has been already described.  The Group was not formed till a year later, and at that time the Women’s Suffrage movement, and especially the party led by Mrs. Pankhurst, had attracted