. Life and public services of Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone . m Duke of Wellington {at the Period of the Battle of Waterloo). the large, progressive, commercial city. Was it any wonder thatthe young student at Eton, distinguished as he had been by suchmarks of the statesmans favor, should share the enthusiasm ofhis fellow-townsmen, led as they were by his own father, its ob-ject a man whom his earliest recollections pictured as rulingmen by the magic of his words? And when he compared ancientand modern genius, is it any wonder that he should grow elo-. MR. AND MRS. GLADSTONE ON THE CELEBRATION OFTHEIR
. Life and public services of Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone . m Duke of Wellington {at the Period of the Battle of Waterloo). the large, progressive, commercial city. Was it any wonder thatthe young student at Eton, distinguished as he had been by suchmarks of the statesmans favor, should share the enthusiasm ofhis fellow-townsmen, led as they were by his own father, its ob-ject a man whom his earliest recollections pictured as rulingmen by the magic of his words? And when he compared ancientand modern genius, is it any wonder that he should grow elo-. MR. AND MRS. GLADSTONE ON THE CELEBRATION OFTHEIR GOLDEN WEDDING Ancestry and Education. 37 quent over the object of his boyish admiration, and award thepalm to the genius of the time ? We have space for the peroration only: It is for those who revered him in the plenitude of his mer-idian glory to mourn over him in the darkness of his prematureextinction; to mourn over the hopes that are buried in his grave,and the evils that arise from his withdrawing from the scene oflife. Surely, if eloquence never excelled and seldom equalled,if an expanded mind, and judgment whose vigor was only par-alleled by its soundness, if brilliant wit, if a glowing imagina-tion, if a warm heart and unbending firmness, could havestrengthened the frail tenure, and prolonged the momentary en-durance of human existence, that man had been immortal. Butnature could endure no longer. Thus had Providence ordained,that inasmuch as the intellect is more brilliant, it shall be moreshort-lived ; as its sphere is more
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