Lanterna Rally

Author: J. Ewing Ritchie

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-11

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780428842628

Excerpt from The Real Gladstone: An Anecdotal Biography Ein this little work I have aimed to write, not a history or a biography, not a criticism or a eulog but merely eto give a few scattered notes, gatheredl y gquarters, for the general public, rather than for the professional politician. Lord Rosebery is reported to have said that it will require many writers to give a complete biography of Mr. Gladstone. He may be right; but the evil of it will be, the work, if exhaustive, will be exhausting. Especially will it be so in these C busy times, when yesterday's biographies become stale fto a public forgetful of the past, caring only for the apresent, oblivious of the morrow. It is almost an impertinence to speak of the many claims Mr. Glad stone has on a people whom he has served so long. All I claim to do is to give a few data which may help them to estimate the Heroic mind Expressed in action, in endurance proved n short, more or less imperfectly, 'the Real Glad stone.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.