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Gladstone and His Day
Ratcliffe, S. K. | December 11, 1929 issue

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This article focuses on two books, "After Thirty Years," by Viscount Gladstone and "Gladstone and Palmerston (1851-1865). Correspondence," edited by Philip Guedalla. It seems to have been decided that the most famous of English liberal statesmen cannot be made interesting. Gladstone was important, copious, and powerful; but he never wrote and seldom said anything that men have remembered, and our exacting age finds him entirely lacking in the salt or spice of personality. Morley's "Life," although a fine monument, is not complete, and Lord Gladstone has done a job that needed doing.

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BOOKS; AFTER Thirty Years (Book); GLADSTONE & Palmerston (1851-1865). Correspondence (Book); GUEDALLA, Philip; PERSONALITY; LETTER writing
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