My Memory Of Gladstone PDF
Preview My Memory Of Gladstone
MY MEMORY OF GLADSTONE AN INTERESTING VOLUME OF CHARACTER SKETCHES: POLITICAL AND OTHER. PORTRAITS OF THE SIXTIES. By JUSTIN McCARTHY, Author of "A History of our own Time." With many Illustrations from Contemporary Photo graphs. Demy Bvo, cloth, I5s. net. LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN. Photo] W. E. GLADBTONE. MY MEMORY OF GLADSTONE BY GOLDWIN SMITH SECOND IMPRESSION LONDON T. F ISH E RUN WIN PATERNOSTER SQUARE 1904 All Rigkts ResW'IJeti MY MEMORY OF GLAD STONE --+-- SINCE the appearance of the first volumes of Macaulay's History there has not been such an event in the publishing world as the appearance of a Life of Gladstone by Mr. Morley. Nor has public expectation been dis appointed. Though I saw a good deal of Glad stone, both in the way of business and socially, I never was nor could A I MY MEMORY OF GLADSTONE I have been, like Mr. Morley, his col league and a partner of his counsels. On the other hand, I lived in the closest intimacy with men who were his associates in public life, and saw him through their eyes. This man was a wonderful being, physically and mentally, the mental part being well sustained by the physical. His form bespoke the ner vous energy with which it was surcharged. His eye was intensely bright, though in the rest of the face there was nothing specially in dicative of genius. His physical and mental force was such that he could speak for more than four hours at a stretch, and with vigour and freshness so sus tained that George Venables, an- ex tremely fastidious and not over- 2
The list of books you might like
