The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-05-19

cipation. saving we accepted a price IN
compensation for the loss" and added
"Oh. sir. with what depth OF desire have
| longed for this day. sore and wearied
and irritate6 with grossly exaggerated
misrepresentation and utter calumnics
and without the means OF reply-how do
| rejoice TO meet them IN free discus
sion!' The earnestness Of this speech
seems TO have brought the young man
into notice.
He had az the time a mild and pleas
ant countenance. an intellectual express
sion. dark. prominent eyebrows. clear
flashing eyes, full head OF JET black hair
and small and regular features. lie put
his hands behind his back when rising
to speak and shifted them 70 the front
and sometimes put them in his breast
Ii was noticed that he Inherited the
clerical abilities OF his family when IN
the cabinet. About 1s40 he opposed the
principle OF state education on an unde-
nominatondl basis.
4 general election now brought Sir Rob-
ert Peel 10 the head OF Affairs. and ne
made Gladstone master OF the mint ana
vice-president Of the board Of trade
About this time he married Catherine
Glynne daughter OF Sir stephen Glynne
OF Hawarden castle. in Flintshire. By
her he had eight children. who went into
politics. the ministry. or commerce.
A thread Of the sChOOlmaster runs
sisters entered The Roman Catholic
church and another married Lord lAhtle-
ton.
THE TORIES HOPE
The active mind OF Gladstone now
launched a book on the state in its rea-
tons with the church Macauley wrote
IL down as betraying very much study
and mental toll He IL the rising hope Of
those stern and unbending Tories said
Macauley. who follow reluctantly and
mutinously a leader whose temper and
opinion they abhor." Others called atten-
ton 10 the dry light Gladstone shed on his
subject and the excess Of his passions
and prejudices. He has one gift. said
the Edinburgh Review. most dangerous
to a Spectator. a vast command OF a
kind Of language grave ana majestic. but
Of vague and uncertain import
Pausing a moment 20 contemplate Clad
stone abreast OF the great WING victory
OF Harrison I'm America I'm 1870 we see
a shitty Scotchman's son reared amid
the associations Of the African and Amer
lean slave trades as DESTROYS "a Sir Wal
ter Scott TO improve his aristOcratc sur
roundings. The plain brick house In ldv-
crpOOl, with its door in the middle.
copy Of thousands OF such houses. is now
exchanged for the battlements and towers
OF Hawarden castle. with its battlemented
courtyard and park OF ancient trees. His
Of duke. and the privileged classes look
with favor upon their rising champion.
who has a fecundity Of thought and lux
uriousness Of language they cannot imi-
tate and must fain admire.
At is al the more interesting from this
feudal outset 20 note tho changes which
have come over Gladstones views and
character. The pictures OF cole are sug-
gested 10 MS. OF the knight riding forth
from his castle i'm the morning armed
from head 10 foot and coming back at
night 10 the same drawbrdge rigid I'm
death. So Gladstone must needs leave the
high-Ciass surroundings into which he
had made his way 10 tint his lance az
every appearance Of modern reform. but
i'm the evening Of his days he returns dis
mantled Of his armor and dead 20 the
doctrine OF privileges.
The times had taught tho man.
He began a fulmnatOr and theologian
and ended by becoming an impossible
reporter and pupil of the day.
OPPOSED SCOTT.
During his same reform agitation
which Gladstone opposed old Sir Walter
Scott. when hOOted by his neighbors in
spite Of the romances he had written for
their delectation and the worlds called
out to them, II care no more for you