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that Sir C. Fremantle's appointment as deputy, 

 to see to the Committee work, will take much of 

 the work off his shoulders. 



On August 20 he went with Lady Lubbock and 

 all the four children to Switzerland, where they 

 made their headquarters at Zurich. A note of 

 August 24 says, " With Ursula, Dr. Muhlberg and 

 his son Max to see the moraines at Mellingen. 

 Very interesting." 



Interesting too, to any who would wish to see 

 Sir John in the light of his home surroundings, 

 is the companionship of his daughter Ursula in 

 this and other like expeditions from which, as 

 well as from his talk at home, she acquired a 

 love of the pursuits and studies in which he was 

 so zealous. 



The following letter from Mr. Frederic Harrison 

 about his list of 100 books is suggestive. There 

 is a constant interest in comparing the opinions 

 of different men on a subject such as this on which 

 opinions could hardly be of very much value if 

 they did not differ. 



38, Westbourne Terrace, W., 

 19 November 1895. 



My dear Lubbock — I am grateful for the two parts 

 of the Pleasures of Life — to which you have added — I- 

 have, in fact, both parts in the original issue. But I 

 have left them with other books down in my house on 

 the Blackdown, and when speaking at Bishopsgate I 

 could not lay my hands on anything more recent than 

 your Contemporary Review article of 1886. Curiously 

 enough, I anticipated some of the changes which you 

 have made — e.g. withdrawing Heine (as untranslatable) 

 do. do. Lucretius, and also Southey — adding Byron 

 (I say also Manfred) and Tennyson, now he is gone. 

 I also would give most of Scott's longer poems for one 

 of his shorter novels. I have a suggestion to make, 



