The writer is now occupying rooms at St. Deniol's Hostel, Hawarden, which has been recently' opened by Earl Spencer as a national memorial to William Ewart Gladstone. Part of it is not yet built, and the present accommodation, though comfortable enough and most reasonable in price, is somewhat. primitive. But the library buildings are all that art and taste can make them, and are well suited to hold the noble colleen tion of books which the great, statesman left as an heirloom to the nation.
Another £15,000 is required to complete the whole design as originally contemplated, and in. making the Hostel correspond with the other part of the building. It will certainly be a most fitting and appropriate memorial of one whom all sections of the nation combined to honour when the call came to him for higher service in the better land. The comparatively small sum needed should ho easily raised amongst the late statesman's many admirers.
The Rylands Libra' in Manchester has also been recently visited by me and this magnificent gift to that city is one of which all the citizens may be justly proud.
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