viii LIFE OF SIR JOHN LUBBOCK 



FAOE 



First Warden of Birmingham University — Free Trade 

 — ^Responsibility for Boer War — Legion of Honour 

 — ^Magic and religion— T/ie Golden Bough — London 

 Chambers of Commerce and the retaliatory tariff — 

 Visit to Paris — His translators .... 173 



CHAPTER XXXVII 



ACTIVITIES AT 70 YEARS OF AGE 



Activity at 70 years — Valescure — President of Society of 

 Antiquarians — Breakfast parties — Early Closing — 

 Curiosity of science — The Forms of Stems — Coal as 

 a raw (?) material — Work on Free Trade — His 

 "popular" books ....•• 195 



CHAPTER XXXVIII 



ANGLO-GEEMAN FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY 



Sunday Closing Bill — Correspondence on Finance — Re- 

 ceives the Diplodocus — Statue to Sir Thomas Browne 

 — Letter from Professor Davis — Anglo-German Friend- 

 ship Society — ^Letter of Prince Biilow — Addresses 

 from German towns — And from Germans in England — 

 Letter of Mr. Bonar Law .... 208 



CHAPTER XXXIX 



FAILING HEALTH 



Death of Sir M. Grant Duff — Moral Instruction League — 

 International Conciliation — Unionist Free-traders — 

 Cicerone to German visitors — Proportional Repre- 

 sentation — Sunday closing — Ill-health . . . 224 



CHAPTER XL 



RECOVERED VIGOUR 



Peace and Happiness — Affection for his children — Income 

 Tax — In the chair at many meetings — Death of Edgar 

 Lubbock — ^Lord Avebury's obituary notices — Cen- 



