His "Golden Treasury/ and a much criticised Handbook to the Art Collection of the Exhibition of 1862, made (him one of the most prominent literary figures in London, and he had a charming, wife, an assured income, and "troops of friends." To these was in due course added a family of happy children, to whom he proved a most devoted father. "I hope," he writes to one of has daughters from the Education Office, "there ia plenty of verbena and nasturtium in the garden; also, some sunflowers, that we may all look artistical. and I are studying Welsh every spare minute." "Yesterday afternoon," he playfully adds, "I sallied out and called on two nice old cats in- • Terrace, who each purred very amiably to mc, and offered mc five o'clock' milk." He worshipped all has abUdren fromi babyhood upwards, "play-, ing with them, walking out with them, sharing their interests, and encouraging them to eihare Iris." "He gave them al most unrestrained (liberty while with him, allowing them the free run of all Ms books, and never restricting them further than to say, 'That's rubbish, and waste of time to read.' He liked having them, tody in his study while 'he was - working, and would often thamik tihiem for tiheir company, even though he might not have spoken to them for hours, being wholly concentrated on his work. His humility to them was touching; he would reprove them with great diffidence, and after wards would always apologise to them for having rebuked them at aH." Wβ read of him walking through St. James's Park, and distributing threepences or sweets to the ragged children; while "the sight of parti cularly poorly dressed little girls invariably made him regret that he could not walk out j stocked with new frocks for them all." And his charity -did not exhaust itself on chil dren. "Never," said a friend, "have I seen such unbounded generosity as Palgrave's; he is one of the very few who realise the duty of giving; and who gives up for the sake of giving." Of his life there is little more to record. In 1866 his.,"Essays on Art'^appeared;; and he stood forward as, after* Ruskin, the: ishief champion of the Pre-Raphaelite school. In 1867 he pubH'ahed a book of hymns, several of which have -oassed into common use. In 1873 'he visited Gladstone at Hawarden. 