ht upon the grass."

Her mental constitution corresponded to her physical frame; she was
the brightest of companions and the most sympathetic of friends.
She shared to the full her husband's zeal for the popular cause,
and stimulated his efforts for social as well as political reform.

From the earliest days of their married life, Lord and Lady Goderich
made their home a centre and a rallying-point for all the scattered
forces which, within the Liberal party or beyond its pale, were
labouring to promote the betterment of human life. There the "Christian
Socialists," recovering from the shocks and disasters of '48,
re-gathered their shattered hosts, and reminded a mocking world
that the People's Cause was not yet lost. There was Maurice with
his mystical eloquence, and Kingsley with his fiery zeal, and Hughes
and Vansittart and Ludlow with their economic knowledge and powerful
pens. They were reinforced by William Edward Forster, a young Radical
M.P., whose zeal for social service had already marked him out
from the ruck of mechanical politicians; and from time to time
Carlyle himself would vouchsafe a growl of leonine approval to
enterprises which, whether wise or foolish, were at least not shams.
In 1852 the Amalgamated Society of Engineers conducted in London
and Lancashire a strike which had begun in some engineering works
at Oldham. The Christian Socialists gave it their support, and
Lord Goderich subscribed L500 to the maintenance of the strikers.
But, although he lived in this highly idealistic society, surrounded
by young men who saw visions and old men who dreamed dreams, Lord
Goderich was neither visionary nor dreamer. He passed, under Lord
Russell, Lord Palmerston, and Mr. Gladstone, through a long series
of practical and laborious offices. He became Secretary of State
for India, and for War; and, when Lord President of the Council,
attained perhaps the highest honour of his life in being appointed
Chairman of the Joint Commission on American Affairs, which in 1871
saved us from the unimaginable calamity of war with the United
States. Ten years later, as Viceroy of India, he made his permanent
mark on the history of the British Empire; and from that day forward
no Liberal Government would have been considered complete unless it
could show the sanction of his honoured name. When, in February,
1886, Gladstone formed the Administration which was to establish
Home Rule, Lord Ripon, who became First Lord of the A