We hear much now--and everybody hears it with pleasure--of the spread of education in "common things;" but long before Miss Coutts inherited her wealth, long before a name was found for such a method of training, Lady Byron had instituted the thing, and put it in the way of making its own name.
'She was living at Ealing, in Middlesex, in 1834; and there she opened one of the first industrial schools in England, if not the very first.
She sent out a master to Switzerland, to be instructed in De Fellenburgh's method.

She took, on lease, five acres of land, and spent several hundred pounds in rendering the buildings upon it fit for the purposes of the school.

A liberal education was afforded to the children of artisans and labourers during the half of the day when they were not employed in the field or garden.

The allotments were rented by the boys, who raised and sold produce, which afforded them a considerable yearly profit if they were good workmen.

Those who worked in the field earned wages; their labour being paid by the hour, according to the capability of the young labourer.