134 LIFE OF SIR JOHN LUBBOCK «,. 



the funeral. Found all the maids out, so that I 

 had to break the door chain assisted by a large 

 crowd. Went down with Morley and the 

 Brazilian Ambassador. In St. George's Chapel 

 sat next Grant Duff. The black made it very 

 gloomy. The music was beautiful, especially 

 some of Purcell's." 



His amateur effort in housebreaking reads, in 

 the hasty note of his journal, rather as if it had 

 been committed on Windsor Castle itself " all the 

 maids being out," but probably we may assume 

 that the actual attack was on his own house at 

 St. James's Square where he had called, on his 

 way from High Elms, to put on the garb suited to 

 the melancholy occasion. 



Another note in the diary, that under date 

 March 14, is similarly rather enigmatic : " The 

 Council breakfasted with me to meet Balfour." 

 To " Balfour," thus lacking distinctive initials, 

 it seems natural to think that " A. J." are those 

 which should be supplied, but there is reason to 

 suppose that respecting breakfast parties Mr. A. 

 J. Balfour's attitude would be much that of Mr. 

 Chamberlain, as noticed previously, and that the 

 reference really is to his brother, Mr. Gerald 

 Balfour, at that time President of the Board of 

 Trade. 



During all this year Lord Avebury played golf 

 assiduously, at least once a week on an average. 

 All the first half of the year the Early Closing 

 movement was engaging a great deal of his 

 attention. He was frequently at meetings and 

 committees relating to it. It was a great satis- 

 faction to him that Lord Salisbury had consented 



