Gladstone was one of the many famous people who frequently visited Mudie's Library in Oxford-street where he went searching for bargains in the second-hand department Others often seen there were Samuel Butler, Cardinal Manning, Richard Garnett (a famous librarian of the British Museum), and S, Gardiner the historian Mudie was an extremely clever business man. When he bought large quantities of a book he drove a hard bargain with the publisher. But he would announce to the world the number of copies purchased. and thi could be a most valuable advert ment, His portrait shows him to have had apart from the wrong name and age he had given Cook! had concealed the fact that he was\a married man.
He was married on October 20, 1928, when he was 23, years of age, to Rose Taylor, and' his wife was at present staying.with her father-inlaw and the defendant had often been to the house, Cook in def nce said that he had before this told the brother that he was a married man. The girl had told him she had no parents. He had known her only three weeks and only took her to the hotel after she told him she had nowhere to go. This was at 8 o'clock on a Saturda night and as he did not know what to do with her he took her to the hotel Mr. W. R, Howard (the magistrate) sent him to gaol for three months' hard labour for each of the two offences, the sentences to run concurrently a high domed forehead, a rather b nose, dark longish hair, and a beard, He was a sincere philanthropist, and had, some success as a writer hymns. But, above all, he had an astonishing gift, of judging the taste of the Victorian middle class. Mrs.
Oliphant described him as A very energetic, very br k, and enterprising man, attached to the Dissenting interest, and with a curious understanding of hat ocean of middle-class and unliterary readers which swamps all criticism and carries riy an No doubt nyYog-lovers will side with Miss Patricia Mathers, aged 26, who was ordered to pay a £2 fine for wilfully damaging the ca of Mr. C. A. Matthews, aged 2: who ran over her dog. The scene took place on the road at Horsebridge Common, London. After the dog wi run over it is alleged she punched Mr. Matthews on the nose, tried to throttle him, bit him in the neck, and put her foot through the windscreen of his car. The dog lost different talent to success. an ear and had a deep wound on For many years Mudie's was the leg and it is doubtful whether he ain support of the three-volume will recover properly
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