Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-05-19

had been nearly twenty years in Parlia-
ment, so that he had full understanding
of the responsibility of meddling in the
affairs of other countries. He. went TO
| Naples, made personal Investigation
of the prisons. and found everything
| worse than had been told about the
| wretched despot His Letter to Lord
| Aberdeen" QS5D resulted in mild re-
| monstrances from that nobleman, but
| Lord Palmerstons sympathies were
| later enlisted by pamphlet that clearly
| pictured the suiferings of the Neapoli-
| tans, and the tempest OF Indignation that
| followed these disclosures engulfed Bonn
, ba and ended his kingly days.
AS A "GRECIAN."
| As Greek scholar Mr.. Gladstone was
| not a Porson or a Jebb, but he was ca
| pabe of taking the same delight in a
/ new Greek play that he did in Middle
| march," Robert Elsmere;' or drama
] by DaUdet He also considered Esther
| Waters" and The Year of Jubilees
| strong and able works, which ought 10
live when many of their contemporaries
are forgotten" This would have been
regarded by some as atrocious literary
taste. His own published works are
"The State In It's Relations with the
Church" 1.-TWO volumes 1888; Church
Principles Considered" QSiO; Studies
on Homer and the Homeric Age dhree
volumes, oxford. 1881; Essays on Ecce
Homo" and pamphlet on the Irish
church question, entitled "A Chapter
Of Autobiography" QS6S. and "Juyentus
Mundi. the Gods and Men OF the Heroic
Age" dSGO, with translatioas, and other
pamphlets Some Of his friends have
discovered an ode he wrote for the Star
Miscellany in his 18th year, which diff
fers largely from the tone Of his anti
reform speech. II is inscribed. ITO the
Shade OF Wat Tyler" and one stanza
proceeds in this fashion:
hymn the gallant and the good
From Tyler down TO Mstlewood.
My muse the trophies grateful sings
The deeds of Miller and Of lngs
She sings of all who soon or late
Have burst subjection's iron chain,
Have sealed the bloody despots fate
or cleft peer or priest in twain.
This is not bad considering that most |
of his intimate friends at Eton at the |
time were either sons Of peers or priests.
But the liberation Of Greece was in the |
air and Lord Btron's poems were the |
companions of every bright school-boy |
who had ever heard OF Athens or Sparta. |
Gladstone was an enthusiastic Philhei- |
lene, and wat lyltf was Il ldE OIL tHpubh /
point to break forth upon in revolution |
airy rhapsodes.
MRS. GLADSTONE.
In 1898 he married Miss Margaret |
Glynne. who was then an heiress. p years |
old She aided and humored her hus- |
band from the first, ana made 1t a family |
rule that he should never be contradicted |
The last years Of his life were passed |
at Hawarden Castle, the property 81 his |
wife. which is practically in the gate
way to Wales This residence is on the |
hills overlooking the valley of the beauu-
full Dee six miles east OF Chester I'm |
picturesque park OF zoo acres. And there |
he lived. surrounded by -four sons. three |
daughters. and seven grandchildren, who
loved him with intense devotion. The |
seven children are not clever At least,
they are not considered clever. But what |
could YOU expect of sons whose greatness
Is so oVershadowed2
William grew up To be lord OF the
manor of Hawarden stephen. the second
son was rector of Hawarden church;
Henry. after service in India. was taught
10 be = country gentleman. and Herbert,
the Youngest one, was the only one en-
couraged to take up public life Two or
the daughters are married-little Dorothy
Drew being the daughter Of one-and the
third. Miss Helen Gladstone, has long
been an Instructor in an English college.