MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT 109 



There were neither Princes nor Dukes to represent 

 the Houses of Parliament ; but there were plenty of 

 earls, a sprinkling of marquises, and a single baronet, 

 to break the fall between the peers and commoners. 

 That baronet was Sir John Lubbock, who did some 

 capital execution with his left hand, scoring 13 runs. 

 There was some doubt on the part of one or two of the 

 fair visitors as to the possibility of the tall gentleman in 

 the Glengarry being really the same Sir John who had 

 written a book on Prehistoric Man, was an F.R.S., and 

 ought, therefore, to look more of a feeble and careworn 

 student than did this tall and " robust " politician. 

 But, after all, they had only to glance down the card in 

 their hand to recognise several well-known names of 

 men who had been dealing with the Land Bill, and had 

 but recently crushed the Deceased Wife's Sister. 1 



Just about this time, so far as can be dis- 

 covered, the doctors advised Sir John to let his 

 beard grow, as a protection to his throat, which 

 had begun to show some slight sign of weakness. 

 Perhaps in this new development the cricket 

 reporter might have found an aspect more in 

 keeping with that of the savant which he had 

 seemed to expect. 



With his entry into Parliament we see Sir 

 John at length arrived at the position in which 

 he was to carry out the threefold main activities 

 of his wonderfully full life as man of business, 

 man of science, and legislator. Of necessity he 

 was obliged, devoting the attention that he did 

 to social legislation, to give less time to his 

 scientific pursuits, though he still followed them 

 with a thoroughness only possible to a man who 

 had brought to a scientific perfection the economy 

 of time. I have been very glad to be able to include 

 in this volume the several letters already quoted 



1 South Eastern, July 13, 1870. 



