Friendly faces of three nationalities . of other health resorts. The Museum,originated and indeed founded by the instru-mentality of one energetic Hastingser, Mr. W. , and housed in the Brassey Institute, gift ofLord Brassey; the Natural History Society,founded in 1893 by another Hastingser, a distin-guished ornithologist, Mr. T. Parkin, ,, etc., now numbers four hundred members,and has done incalculable service as a stimulus tothe study of science; the Egyptological Society,organised last year; the Literary Society; theDickens Fellowship—all these form centres ofintellectua
Friendly faces of three nationalities . of other health resorts. The Museum,originated and indeed founded by the instru-mentality of one energetic Hastingser, Mr. W. , and housed in the Brassey Institute, gift ofLord Brassey; the Natural History Society,founded in 1893 by another Hastingser, a distin-guished ornithologist, Mr. T. Parkin, ,, etc., now numbers four hundred members,and has done incalculable service as a stimulus tothe study of science; the Egyptological Society,organised last year; the Literary Society; theDickens Fellowship—all these form centres ofintellectual activity, also of social intercourse, irre-spective of circumstances, and render the premierCinque Port something more than a pleasantplace for old ladies and gentlemen with moderateincomes to live in. Thus has the place beensatirically described by a great novelist. Nor must the great services of our curator,Mr. Ruskin Butterfield, be forgotten, to whomthe Museum is immensely indebted. 85 V MADAME BODICHON The Foundress of Girton. BARBARA LEIGH SMITH BODICHON V MADAME BODICHON Women are deplorable ingrates towards eachother. A generation of Girtonians has profited bythe genius and liberality of this really greatwoman, their foundress, yet no literary monumenthas been dedicated to her memory; again andagain have outsiders been compelled to vindicateit, the laurels due to her own head being placedelsewhere. It is not, however, of the educational and socialreformer that I am here going to speak, but of theconversationalist. Already at twelve years oldremarkable for her apt and ready speech, as theyears wore on, alike in French and English hertable talk was ever full of sprightliness, pith andcharm. How I love to hear Madame Bodichon talk ! once said a French listener to me. Her short-comings as to accent, grammar and idiom are allforgotten, so fresh and interesting always is whatshe has to say. 89 Friendly Faces Although married to a Frenchman and spend-ing much time in Franc
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