The expression given in both House. esterday to the nation's wish that Jadstone should rest in the Abbey was exactly what it should have been. In other Parliaments, no doubt, loftier heights of rhetoric would have been scaled, and a deeper note of tragedy would have been struck. The English race, however, instinctively recoils from anything theatrical, and never fails to condemn the luxuriant grief of insincerity. The speeches, therefore, were, as custom would have had them, marked with a grave reserve. Admiration was kept within limits, and there was, of course, no reference made to Mr. Gladstone's opinions. It was a thoroughly English display, and one on which we can congratulate ourselves without risk of self-conceit. To generations to come the most valuable passages will, perhaps, be those in which Mr. Gladstone's old colleagues gave expression to their personal views of him. The man will always be a wonder to after ages, for, as Mr. Balfour happily said, the written record will hopelessly fail to convey a living likeness. And so Lord Rosebery's admirable criticism of the Gladstonian intellect will be a possession to futurity. It was characterised, he considered, by an enormous power of concentration as well as by an infinite variety and multiplicity of interests. The idea has been otherwise defined as a great brain in compartments. Mr. Gladstone could abstract himself entirely from the most imminent difficulties to plunge into literature by the hour. In the midst of the of the Trish Land Bill he surprised his friends by his keen appreciation of a new poem by "Mr. Swinburne. It was that happy Gisposition which explained his wonderfal capacity, even in advanced life, for beating up against the strain of Premiership. and leadership. We get, too, from Sir William Harcourt a complement ary sketch of Mr. Gladstone in inner council, He was not only a great states-"OF all
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