Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury

capital portrait, but from notices in the diary it is manifest that he also achieved the possibly more difficult task of keeping his sitter entertained all the while.At its conclusion Sir John is able to write, " He was very pleasant to sit to."At this period the Bimetallic controversy was raging with great severity.Bimetallists attributed the great fall in prices, of say 30-40 per cent, to a rise in the value of gold.Monometallists, on the contrary, while admitting that there might possibly be a rise of say 5 per cent in the real value of gold, the production having somewhat fallen off, attributed the main fall in prices to improvements in manufacture, diminished cost of transport, and other circumstances affecting the articles themselves.Mr. H.Chaplin having made a speech in which he put the argument of the Bimetallists very tersely

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