To begin to do things with, instead of for, the chil-
dren, was a change that gave to family life more
variety and more movement. The development
of the children can be exemplified by their literary labours.
While my mother was in America their magazine of that
time, which made sarcastic comment on her lectures, had
begun to have articles and drawings with a serious, and
generally fatal, ambition about them. This magazine de-
rived its name from the remark of an editor-friend of my
father's who had himself just started a new paper. Ques-
tioned by my father as to his idea in starting it, he had re-
plied that it was a mere whim, but in imitation of his
pronunciation the children's magazine was called the Bere
Whib. As ambition grew, manuscripts were confided by
the children to their mother with such inscriptions as:
"Mrs. Meynell's daughter takes the great liberty of offer-
ing to her the enclosed for inspection. She will be much
obliged for a true opinion of it. She must however beg
that Mrs. Meynell will not criticise it in public as is her
habit." From that it was not a long stage to my mother's
being able to write to my father from her sister's house at
Devonport: "I gave my Watercolour Exhibition card to

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