Review of reviews and world's work . PROM THE FARM GATE. GLADSTONE: A CHARACTER SKETCH. BY WILLIAM T. STEAD. SO mucli has been written about Mr. Gladstonethat it was with some sinking of heart I venturedto select him as a subject for my next charactersketch. But I took heart of grace when I remem-bered that the object of these sketches is to describetheir subject as he appears to himself at his best, and. HON, WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE. (FROM A RECENT PHOTOGRAPH.) not as he appears to his enemies at his worst. So Isurrendered myself to the full luxury of paintingwhat may be described as the heroic
Review of reviews and world's work . PROM THE FARM GATE. GLADSTONE: A CHARACTER SKETCH. BY WILLIAM T. STEAD. SO mucli has been written about Mr. Gladstonethat it was with some sinking of heart I venturedto select him as a subject for my next charactersketch. But I took heart of grace when I remem-bered that the object of these sketches is to describetheir subject as he appears to himself at his best, and. HON, WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE. (FROM A RECENT PHOTOGRAPH.) not as he appears to his enemies at his worst. So Isurrendered myself to the full luxury of paintingwhat may be described as the heroic Mr. Gladstone,the Mr. Gladstone who for a quarter of a century hasexcited the almost idolatrous devotion of millions of his countrymen. There are plenty of other peopleready to fill in the shadows. This paper claims in no-way to be a critical estimate or a judicial suniming-Tip>of the merits and demerits of the most remarkableof all living Englishmen. It is merely an attempt tocatch, as it were, the outline of the heroic figurewhich has dominated English po-litics for the lifetime of this gene-ration, and thereby to explainsomething of the fascinationwhich his personality has exer-cised and still exercises over themen and women of his time. Khis enemies, and they are many,say that I have idealized a wilyold opportunist out of all recog-nition, I answer that to the ma-jority of his fellow subjec
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