MR GLADSTONES INTEREST IN DETAILS.
Mr Gladstone took the keenest interest in every detail of the '•production" aod publication of his "life of Bishop Butler." Nobody could have been less eelf-opinioned (aayjj the "Book Monthly"), and indeed if lid made a suggestion, it" was with a halfap&logy. \Yhen the oover for the '"But-k-r" was submitted to him he wrote back that "the "Subsidkjy -Studies' con nevsr be worthy of iucli a binding." His letters were businesslike and to the point; ytt he always found time and spa« —ii only on a postcard—to wld some friendly sentence or geihiral remark. Mr Gladstone mention<id in one letter that an America:! clergyman had sent him theopinion, "No otx-e who becomes saturated with the spirit of the 'Analogy' can b* seriously disturbed by current forms of unbelief." "Profoundly true, mc judice," was his comment.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 11806, 2 February 1904, Page 5
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