270 LIFE OF SIR JOHN LUBBOCK oh. 



a member (eldest son of Sir J. Lubbock, who some day 

 will, I think, be a good and active Naturalist) for the 

 Entomological Soc. 



The letter proceeds to other subjects. The 

 " Sir J. Lubbock " above is, of course, Lord 

 Avebury's father. 



Early in May of this year he had paid a visit 

 to Avebury, of which he writes : " With Alice, 

 Ursula, Johnny, Norman, Eric, and Maurice to 

 Avebury. The ditch is a foot deeper than when 

 we were here last year. They have found two 

 deer-horn picks and some flakes — nothing of 

 metal." 



His diary of July 9 has an entry worthy of 

 note : " Golf at Richmond," it begins, " with 

 Lord Halsbury, Lord Saltoun, and Harold." 

 Then, " Dined at ' the Club,' to celebrate the 

 Bicentenary of S. Johnson. Rosebery in the 

 Chair, both Archbishops and A. Balfour, Curzon, 

 Butcher, Lord H. Cecil, Sir A. Lyall, Sir D. M. 

 Wallace, Rathmore, Sir W. Anson, Carlisle, Sir 

 E. Poynter, Lord G. Hamilton, Welby, Sir C. 

 Bridge, etc." An interesting gathering and an 

 interesting occasion. 



It has often been seen how great was the 

 popularity of those books of Lord Avebury, of 

 which The Pleasures of Life is perhaps the best- 

 known type, among the peoples of the East, and 

 perhaps it might not be easy to say how much 

 they have contributed, by the introduction of 

 Oriental readers to the highest thought of the 

 West, to a better understanding of the West by 

 the East. He notes as a singular fact that the 

 first application for leave to translate his latest 



