New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-19

and moods and gesture and action steadily
gained In energy The series Of gestures with
which In HIS speech the Land Purchase act
h. illustrated English responsibility for the land
system in Ireland was as dramatic az the inter
locked fingers raised In the attitude Of prayer
wherein he once described the oppressed prov
inces ~ Turkey as appealing 10 the civilized
world His marvellous resources OF mind and
memory never failed him. That mercurial flu
ency Of expression which impaired the literary
effect Of his speeches when read impaired
strength 10 his eloquence in his closing years
Inferior as n popular orator 10 Mr.. Bright alone
he surpassed every other English statesman Of
and the art and accomplishments OF political
debate. Easily excelled 10y Lord Beaconsfeld
Parliamentary leader he had what one Of them
described In romance as the divine gift Of
inspiring popular enthusiasm.
SCHOLAR AS WELL AS STATESMAN
Mr.. Gladstone's industry was without paral-
lei In English public life. Lord Beaconsaed
wrote romances In leisure hours; Viscount
Palmerston studied few branches OF science as
a private DIVERSION Sir Robert Peel and Earl
Russell amused themselves In vacations like Eng
sh country gentlemen: but Mr. Gladstone was
always writing studying. toiling. Even when n
schoolboy at Elton he contributed essays TO the
school Miscellany: and he had not been long
in Parliament before he wrote two works on
the relations of Church and State. which Lord
Macaulay praised and assacd as a reviewer
Then followed at intervals MAN. controversial
essays religion and the English Church,
Studies Homer and the Homeric Age" and
"Juventus Mundf: THE Vatican DEGREES"
'Vaticanism and other controversial tracts:
"Glcanings OF Past Years; various publications
on phases of the Eastern Question, and in
Vulnerable pamphlets, magazine articles and
tracts. The complete record Of his published
.t,t.~ ,,,,I b,, rio tIt,
versatility often subjected him 10 contemptuous
sneers but he was intensely In earnest in every
thing he undertook. and thorough in lnvestiga-
ton and study If he was n dcttante In old
china. ne was pre-emncnt Homeric scholar
interchangeable as a theological controversast
and grave and industrious, II not always sue
cessful. essayist. In his recreation he was
az laborious in intellectual pursuits and in
political life. In his youth ne used TO think
nothing OF walking thirty miles a day. In his
old age ne could fell the stoutest trees in
Hawarden Park. An accident from the
plosion Of gun barrel over forty years ago, by
" hch he lost the index finger Of his left hand.
discouraged him from frequenting the hunting
field. To constant habits of exercise and to "A
remarkably wry constitution are to be attrib-
uted the statesmans long life and exceptionally
good health. one OF his colleagues In P1rlia-
ment Sidney Hubert, exclaimed forty years
ago
Don't talk to me about Mr. Gadstones mind.
II Is nothing compared with his body
Mr. Gladstone married In 1889 the eldest
daughter of Sir Stephen Richard Glynne, and In
1874 by virtue OF her right, succeeded to Ha-
warden estate In Wales. covering nearly seven
thousand acres. II was in the beautiful library
Of the castle that he became convert OF MIR.
Parnelrs ideas respecting the government or
Ireland and entered upon the perilous enter
nrise OF convincing first the Cabinet then Par
lament and finally the country. that after four
centuries OF failure to engraft English civiliza-
tIon upon Irish stock II was time to leave Ire
Land to grow from roots embedded IN her own
soil II was in the same library that he chal-
lenged Dr. Newman to take up the gauntlet
thrown down in "Vatcanism. and engaged IN
manifold literary, theological and political con-
troyersies In Hawarden Church. near the
castle Is the oak desk where Mr.. Gladstone has
read the Church lessons on many sunday 10
the parish folk, for throughout his HE he was
a devoted Churchman, unduly impressed at one
time with Tractarlan arguments. but always
liberal and catholic In questions OF religious
controversy The resonant cadences of that
solemn musical voice will be heard never again
in church. public hall or Parliament. Emersons
'Thane Of Cawdor" has passed away forever,