Hence, the life and public services of the Grand Old Man cannot fail to be of intense interest to all, particularly to the English, because he has repeatedly occupied the highest position under the sovereign of England, to the Irish whether Protestant or Catholic, north or south, because of his advocacy of (Reforms) for Ireland; to the Scotch because of his Scottish descent; to the German because he reminds them of their own great chancellor, the Unifier of Germany, Prince Bismarck; and to the American because he was ever the champion of freedom; and as there has been erected in Westminster Abbey a tablet to the memory of Lord Howe, so will the American people enshrine in their hearts, among the greatest of the great, the memory of William Ewart Gladstone.
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"In youth a student and in eld a sage; Lover of freedom; of mankind the friend; Noble in aim from childhood to the end; Great is thy mark upon historic page." |
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I | [ANCESTRY AND BIRTH] |
| CHAPTER II | [AT ETON AND OXFORD] |
| CHAPTER III | [EARLY PARLIAMENTARY EXPERIENCES] |
| CHAPTER IV | [BOOK ON CHURCH AND STATE] |
| CHAPTER V | [TRAVELS AND MARRIAGE] |
| CHAPTER VI | [ENTERS THE CABINET] |
| CHAPTER VII | [MEMBER FOR OXFORD] |
| CHAPTER VIII | [THE NEAPOLITAN PRISONS] |
| CHAPTER IX | [THE FIRST BUDGET] |
| CHAPTER X | [THE CRIMEAN WAR] |
| CHAPTER XI | [IN OPPOSITION TO THE GOVERNMENT] |
| CHAPTER XII | [HOMERIC STUDIES] |
| CHAPTER XIII | [GREAT BUDGETS] |
| CHAPTER XIV | [LIBERAL REFORMER AND PRIME MINISTER] |
| CHAPTER XV | [THE GOLDEN AGE OF LIBERALISM] |
| CHAPTER XVI | [THE EASTERN QUESTION] |
| CHAPTER XVII | [MIDLOTHIAN AND THE SECOND PREMIERSHIP] |
| CHAPTER XVIII | [THIRD ADMINISTRATION AND HOME RULE] |
| CHAPTER XIX | [PRIME MINISTER THE FOURTH TIME] |
| CHAPTER XX | [IN PRIVATE LIFE] |
| CHAPTER XXI | [CLOSING SCENES] |
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"In thought, word and deed, How throughout all thy warfare thou wast pure, I find it easy to believe." —ROBERT BROWNING |