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ability to shift his front, while keeping the same 

 objective, that enabled him to be so extra- 

 ordinarily successful in passing his measures 

 through Parliament. He never attached much 

 importance to method : it was the thing to be 

 accomplished, it mattered little how, that seemed 

 to him to signify. As in his literary work, it 

 was substance, far more than form, that he 

 attended to. 



In August of this year Punch did him the 

 honourable impertinence of selecting him as the 

 subject of one of the " Fancy Portraits," No. 96, 

 under the semblance of a large bumble bee, with 

 really a very tolerable likeness of Sir John making 

 its head and thorax. Beneath was the legend : 



Sir John Lubbock, M.P., F.R.S. 



How doth the Banking Busy Bee 



Improve the shining hours, 

 By studying on Bank Holidays 



Strange insects and wild flowers. 



It is really rather apt, as a testimony to his 

 incessant diligence. 



In September he went on a little tour of visits 

 in Scotland and the north of England, of which 

 the following is the brief itinerary as noted in his 

 journal : " Aug. 31st, Naworth Castle. Sept. 1st, 

 with L. Stanleys along the Roman Wall ; 13th, 

 Guisachan (presumably with the late Lady Ash- 

 burton) ; 17th, Loch Luichart ; and 24th, Haddo 

 House (with Lord Aberdeen)." 



On October 9 he was at Knowsley again, with 

 Mrs. Mulholland and Miss Lubbock, to meet the 

 Gladstones. His diary of October 11 records : 

 " Had a walk with Mr Gladstone. He thinks 



