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THE book under notice contains a short memoir of the late Lord Avebury, and a series of appreciations of his very numerous activities by seven experts. Lord Avebury was an interesting personality, and he covered so many and so varied interests that it requires a symposium to estimate the value of the work he did. The first of these experts is Sir Bernard Mallet, who dwells upon the political and economic work Sir John Lubbock did whilst he was a member of Parliament. When he was first invited to become a candidate he summed up the objects he wished to achieve as follows: (1) To promote the study of science both in secondary and primary schools, (2) to quicken the repayment of the National Debt, and (3) to secure some additional holidays and to shorten the hours of labour in shops.” It is remarkable how by quiet and steady persistence he in time achieved those reforms which he set out to accomplish. His name will ever be associated with bank holidays. Sir Bernard sums up his power as a politician as follows:
The Life-work of Lord Avebury (Sir John Lubbock), 1834–1913.
Comprising Essays by Sir Bernard Mallet, Sir Arthur Keith, Dr. A. Smith Woodward, Prof. J. Arthur Thomson, H. St. J. K. Donisthorpe, Dr. A. C. Seward, Sir Michael E. Sadler. Edited by his daughter, the Hon. Mrs. Adrian Grant Duff. Pp. vii + 261. (London: Watts and Co., 1924.) 6s. net.
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The Life-work of Lord Avebury (Sir John Lubbock), 1834–1913. Nature 114, 239 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114239a0
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