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From my youth upward have I longed to reach
This classic ground; and am I here at last?
Wandering at will through the long porticos
And catching, as through some majestic grove,
Now the blue ocean, and now, chaos-like,
Mountains and mountain-gulfs, and, half-way up,
Towns like the living rock from which they grew?

In the minor verse of Rogers are to be found -by searching-a few rememberable beauties and philosophical suggestions. The concluding stanza of "On a Tear" has this profound reflection:

The very law which moulds a tear,

And bids it trickle from its source,
That law preserves the earth a sphere
And guides the planets in their course.

"To the Butterfly" is perhaps the highest flight of fancy to which our banker-poet attained:

Child of the sun! pursue thy rapturous flight,
Mingling with her thou lov'st in fields of light;
And, where the flowers of Paradise unfold,
Quaff fragrant nectar from their cups of gold.
There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky,
Expand and shut with silent ecstacy!

Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept
On the bare earth, then wrought a tomb and slept.
And such is man! soon from his cell of clay

To burst a seraph in the blaze of day.

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THE LUBBOCKS

1803

NE of England's greatest mathematicians

and astronomers, Sir John W. Lubbock,

was a banker and the son of a banker. At the age of twenty-two, he became a partner in the London banking-house of Lubbock & Company. Until 1860, he divided time between banking and physical science. The herculean tasks undertaken by this man of affairs in mathematics and astronomy would seem to have made it impossible for him to retain his interest in business, or to give finances any portion of his time. But such was not the case. We find him not only an active member of various philosophical and scientific associations, but also treasurer of the Royal Society, Vice-Chancellor of the London University, and a member of several legislative commissions-notably that on the standards of weights and measures.

At the age of thirty-seven, he succeeded to the baronetcy, and became the sole working partner of Lubbock & Company. He guided the bank successfully through the panics of 1847 and 1857. In 1860 his house consolidated with another, tak

ing the name Robarts, Lubbock & Co. His partial retirement from business then became total and permanent. At the age of sixty-two his all too busy life came to a close. He left behind him a fame as a contributor to the literature of science second to none of his time, and as a banker a name which stands for sterling honesty, jealous regard for the honor of his house and enthusiastic belief in the banker's mission.

Baron Avebury, perhaps better known in the literary and scientific world as Sir John Lubbock, son of Sir John W., born in 1834, head of the banking house of Robarts, Lubbock & Co., actively associated with many civic and scientific organizations, is without question the most influential man of science in the world. His attainments are encyclopædic. His seat is at the head of the table not alone with men of affairs, but also with astronomers, naturalists, archæologists and anthropologists. On quitting Eton College, he entered at once into his father's banking house. While head of the house in fact, his principal activities have been as a publicist and a scientist. His contributions to scientific and general literature have been many and varied, including "Prehistoric Times," "Origin of Civilization," various works on entomological themes, addresses covering a wide range of subjects,

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