women.  When she first took notice of one or two of their fine children, the mothers said that if she could but save their children from the misery they had gone through in vice, they would do anything she bid them.  And when they saw the change made in their children by her schooling, they begged to attend themselves.  I could not have conceived that the love of their children could have remained so strong in hearts in which every other feeling of virtue had so long been dead.  The Vicar of Wakefield’s sermon in prison is, it seems, founded on a deep and true knowledge of human nature; the spark of good is often smothered, never wholly extinguished.  Mrs. Fry often says an extempore prayer; but this day she was quite silent; while she covered her face with her hands for some minutes, the women were perfectly silent, with their eyes fixed upon her; and when she said, “You may go,” they went away slowly.  The children sat quite still the whole time; when one leaned, her mother behind her sat her upright.  Mrs. Fry told us that the dividing the women into classes, and putting them under monitors, had been of the greatest advantage.  There is some little pecuniary advantage attached to the office of monitor which makes them emulous to obtain it.  We went through the female wards with Mrs. Fry, and saw the women at various works, knitting, rug-making, etc.  They have done a great deal of needle-work very neatly, and some very ingenious.  When I expressed my foolish wonder at this to Mrs. Fry’s sister, she replied, “We have to do, recollect, Ma’am, not with fools, but with rogues."...  Far from being disappointed with the sight of what Mrs. Fry has done, I was delighted.

This naive, informal chronicle of a visit to Newgate incidentally lets out the fact that the gloomy prison was fast becoming attractive to visitors—­indeed, quite a show-place.  That Mrs. Fry’s labors were receiving official honor and recognition also, there is plenty of evidence to prove.  In Prussia, her principles and exhortations had made such headway that the Government was adapting old prisons and building new, in order to carry out the modern doctrines of classification and employment.  In Denmark, the King had given his sanction to the measures proposed by the Royal Danish Chancery for adding new buildings to the prison.  As soon as these buildings were completed the females would be separated from the males, female warders were to be appointed, employment found for all prisoners, and books of information and devotion were to be supplied to each cell; while a chaplain (an unknown official, hitherto) was to be appointed.  In Germany, four new penitentiaries were to be constructed; viz., at Berlin, Muenster in Westphalia, Ratibor in Silesia, and Koenigsberg.  Two of these penitentiaries were to be exactly like the Model Prison at Pentonville; separate confinement was to be practically carried out, and the prisoners were to be taught trades under the superintendence