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invention, and attained considerable repute in the craft from this fact. These Composition Rollers, which were to supplant the ancient method of " Balls " for inking the types and blocks that had continued from the days of Caxton, were only introduced to the trade by dint of combined energy and tact on the part of Robert Harrild, so persistent was the opposition of the workmen and others, till they began to understand their Life and Environment 21 proper interests. It is interesting to record that Antiquarians have to thank Robert Harrild for the preservation of the Benjamin Franklin Printing Press, which is still to be seen in the Patent Office at Washington, U.S.A. This press, which Franklin when an unknown journeyman had worked in London in 1725-6, was kept by Harrild till 1841, when he presented it to Mr. J. B. Murray, an American, who removed it to the United States. Robert Harrild was one of the first parish guardians appointed after the passing of the Poor Law Act, and retained that Office for many years. He died at Sydenham on the 28th July, 1853, leaving ^1,000 by his will to the Printers' Society to endow a " Franklin pension." I have not troubled to glean anything further of Baxter's school days than what Mr. C. T. Courtney Lewis 'tells us; " his early school days were spent at Cliff e House Academy, Lewes; and that afterwards he went to the High School at St. Ann's, Lewes." Upon the completion of his school days he duly entered the Print- ing, Wood-Engraving and Publishing business of his father, and was set to work upon the multifarious duties attached to it, though apparently he did not take kindly to the mechanical side of the craft. Consequently we find that he early devoted himself to the artistic side of the business under the encouragement of his father, for we find that in one of his