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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 220, 18 September 1869, Page 2

Messrs. Macmillan and 'Co. have just published "Juventus Mundi," by Mr. Gladstone — a fact which the Daily Telegraph makes the occasion of saying some'j ust and noble thing. In the midst of the political and religious storm which rages round His name, and at a time when the weight of an unparalleled power might well be expected almost to overwhelm the present First Minister of England, he calmly comes forward, among the scholars, with another volume of learned expositions upon the Homeric writings. Does any Orange gab tleman wish to know what "that robber Gladstone" was doing with his spare hours last autumn, before he undertook the Premiership of England ? Has any such vigorous master of the invective the idea that the great disestablisher and disendower was at that time gloomily occupied apart in meditating assaults upon religion,? and^undermihing with sinister conspiracies, the interests of morality and Christianity? In this case let him send to Messrs. Macmillan and Co. for Mr. Gladstone's new book, the v Juventus Mundi, and if he can but understand it be will there find upon every page evidences of a nature utterly different from the i fancy portraits drawn by Toriy Orators ahdllrjsh clergymen. \Ys S