CONTENTS vii 



CHAPTER XXXIII 



LORD AVEBURY 



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Quitting the House of Commons — Many congratulations — 

 Resigns seat for London University — French suspicions 

 of England — Meeting in Paris of Associated Chambers 

 of Commerce — Its excellent effect — Crowds in City on 

 occasion of Relief of Ladysmith .... 119 



CHAPTER XXXIV 



PURCHASE OF KINGSGATE CASTLE 



Estimate of some of his books — Death of Queen Victoria — 

 Work on behalf of Early Closing — The fate of Stone- 

 henge — Orientation of Stonehenge and Avebury — 

 Purchase of Kingsgate Castle — Description of the 

 castle — The matriculation subjects at the University 

 of London ....... 132 



CHAPTER XXXV 



POLITICAL, SOCIAL, AND LITERARY 



Early Closing Bill in Lords — Many interviews on the 

 subject — The Scenery of England — ^Dreams — Coins 

 and Currency — History of bank notes — Ancient 

 business tablets — 720 per cent interest — Business 

 transactions, 2000 b.c. — Selection of Mr. Herbert 

 Spencer as candidate for Nobel Prize — Mr. Tedder's 

 tribute to Lord Avebury — In chair at remarkable 

 dinner at Athenaeum — His qualities as Chairman — 

 Various visits— Prussian Order of Merit . .149 



CHAPTER XXXVI 



WORK IN THE UPPER HOUSE 



The Prestwich Gold Medal — Fire at Biarritz Hotel — Jubilee 

 of Manchester Free Library — Early Closing Bill passes 

 the Lords — Unveils tablet to Lord Maeaulay — Letter 

 from Sir G. Trevelyan — Model mountain building — 



