Mr. Gladstone.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 40, 17 January 1885, Page 4

Mr. Gladstone.

r~& ™-' ; [Christian World. "j. The attempt in the current, n\im- : ;bcr:of the IJVrtnighfcly. Review, to „ 'analyse the qualities of .: mind : and . '. heart which have not onlv made Mr , Gladstone the foremost man of his age and countvy v ■■ but have placed him on a pedestal of unique in^electual splendor arid tfiilimited"influenceis hoth true and timely. Withthe main facts that go to make up history of England' "during" thfef \ ,past half century his life has been ' iintei'wbVeh." The iiteratuVe df thatperiod is ifnll of himpand fresh: nomformations of the many parts he has p)ayqd are ., , regularly ; . for iji the>published Teminiscenee.s : .' and, . biographies.iof pnblic men. in ;Tre-, , "vlelyan's "Life of Maculay," in-. ProudeVf Life of Cariyle, 1 ' in;LoM Malmesbury's "Recolleetions^ahdi. in Canon 7 Mozley's ! ;f Lfetters "" his liame is • cbntiriually cropping up. As in the case of Mr Reid's recent ** Life of Sydney Smith," he is sometimes appealed cto by ;. distressed biographers to assist them with personal information about: men who liave long passed away. His knowledge' expends' -into: 4 sd> : '■ than^i Regions, an<i his^ industry , has been so great, that the present is not the first, gin&itji^ hajs^see med^ deserve J th'e i epi'tnet bestowed 'bif him the,;Other!:day by ..the.. Times,- ;s?f| * Miracjilous. I ' , ...It" Js!,nQarly,;jfcr4y| years /ago. sihee he gratified,* .^atiOfl Motley .dt dinner. by tatkirig-.6n,;;aH. soTteof 'subjects,* literary and .politic: 6al \ and' "o^er- thirty ye'dii sihee -he 1 ! his iOifol'd 'constituents the ambiguity of his-cofrespori-' aence. Spjne, years agp, on the occasion (if 'a'^isit' to Irelaridf, ?i hd Vas 4hown acojleqtion'bf his, own printed >orks, and'Vas 'siiprisetf to <fihd s now nuirierbus; they were* At a-nidment^t he is prepared to take in hand suefo diverse' matters as -the ' compel |ition of a long' letter , on -'Disestab|ishment.to a ..Welsh Bishop, the •Writiflg^f 4- prelace^to a- Gatechi^d, and the discu^ssiori of the; relation of the Hittie Empire to Troy.

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