CONTENTS 

 CHAPTER XXVI 



POLITICAL REMINISCENCES 



Bimetallism — Correspondence with Mr. Henry Chaplin — 

 Address to Working Men's Club — Collection of Income 

 Tax— Letter of Sir W. Harcourt — Guildhall meeting 

 against Home Rule — Indifferent health 



CHAPTER XXVII 



AT HOME AND ABROAD 



page of his diary — Moves address to Mr. Gladstone — 

 Debate on the Budget — Nummulites in the Triassic — 

 President of International Sociological Institute — The 

 Twentieth Century : a Prophecy — The Use of Life — Its 

 wonderful reception— Society for Extension of Uni- 

 versity Teaching — ^Discussions about British Empire 

 League ....... 21 



CHAPTER XXVIII 



RE-ELECTION FOR LONDON UNIVERSITY 



Ponds at High Elms — ^Declines Chair of L.C.C. — British 

 Empire League — General Election — His address — Is 

 returned unopposed — ^Mr. Frederic Harrison on " Best 

 Hundred Books " . . . . . .48 



