Excerpt from Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury, Vol. 2 of 2 I have just heard that the London County Council have selected me to paint your portrait. I am afraid you will scarcely share my pleasure at this announcement, but I will do the best I can to make the Sittings as little inconvenient to you as possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.