156 LIFE OF SIR JOHN LUBBOCK 



CH. 



He received the thanks of the Bankers' 

 Association for carrying this Act, which has 

 proved a considerable convenience. 



He took the Chair at the Salisbury meeting 

 of the Wiltshire Archaeological Society. The 

 principal excursion was to Stonehenge. It had 

 not been intended to have any speech-making, 

 but Mr. Parker, the Oxford Antiquary, took 

 upon himself to make an oration, suggesting that 

 Stonehenge was erected in Saxon times. Upon 

 this the Committee asked Sir John to reply, 

 which he did, speaking from the top of one of 

 the stones. He maintained that it probably 

 belonged to the Bronze Age. 



The excursion was a large one, conveyed in 

 some twenty -five carriages, and a gentleman 

 farmer who was harvesting, surprised at seeing 

 so large a cavalcade in an out-of-the-way lane, 

 asked his bailiff who they were. " I reckon, 

 sir," said the man, to whom the word archaeo- 

 logists was not as familiar as it might have been, 

 " it's them Archangels from Salisbury." 



Lord Morley, in his fine Life of Gladstone, 

 devotes one of its most charming pages to an 

 account of a " week-end " at High Elms, in 

 February of this year, when Mr. Gladstone was 

 also staying there. 



" It was my own good fortune," he writes, " to pass 

 two days with him at this moment at High Elms. 

 Huxley and Playfair were of the party. Mr. Gladstone 

 had with him the printer's proofs of his second pamphlet, 

 and was in full glow against Turkish terrorism and its 

 abettors. This strong obsession could not be concealed, 

 nor was there any reason why it should be ; it made 

 no difference in his ready courtesy and kindness of 



