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which he jotted down in pencil, passages or 

 references to passages which struck him as he 

 read. These slips being tabulated formed a very 

 easily accessible means of reference to all that 

 he had found of most value in the books that he 

 studied from time to time. It was largely by such 

 modes of economising time and the results of 

 his reading that he was able to achieve the 

 immense total of work which he performed 

 during his life. 



Partly the reason of the loneliness, to which 

 he refers, was that he had gone into the City 

 at so early an age that none of his contempor- 

 aries were yet there ; but that is a condition 

 which he would find improving as the years 

 went on. Moreover, fully occupied as were his 

 days and hours at home, there was much time 

 in them for social enjoyment, riding, cricket, 

 and so on. He played frequently for the West 

 Kent Club, had an average, one season, of 25 J 

 runs per innings, and for several years found 

 time, in the midst of all his avocations, to act 

 as honorary secretary. His diaries of this date 

 abound with references to dances and parties 

 at this or the other house in the very sociable 

 neighbourhood in which High Elms is situated, 

 and he notes, with rather an amusing freedom 

 of criticism, the merits of various young ladies 

 as dancers and companions. 



A dweller near Bromley at that time writes 

 to me of Sir John Lubbock (Lord Avebury's 

 father) : " He used, in my young days, to go 

 to and from the railway station in a mail phaeton 

 drawn by a pair of horses, with a post-boy. I 



