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New Zealand Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 3442, 25 May 1898, Page 3

THE LATE MR GLADSTONE. “ Now is the stately column broke ; The beao m light is quenched in smoke : The trumpet’s silver voice is stiU ; The warder silent on the hill.” —Scott (Introduction to “Maricion.”) rjIHIS week’s issue of the NEW ZEALAND MAIL, To be published on THURSDAY, the 26th, WILL CONI AIN A BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE, "THE STATESMAN. THE PATRIOT, THE MAN,” Specially written and compiled for the MAIL. The Record, which will occupy over TWENTY COLUMNS, Will be of a most exhaustive character, tracing Mr Gladstone’s career right through life. 1 The following synopsis will give an idea of its scope : WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE [IBO9-3893.] His Forebears Schooldays—At Oxford— Member for Newark—His Maiden Speech —ln Peel’s Ministry - Gladstone’s Mar* riage From 1841 to 1851— borne Bjincidents 1850-51 —In Office with Lord Aberdeen—Gladstone and PalmerstonDisraeli’s Little Trap—A Curious Change of Front—The Fight Over the Paper Duty—The Russeil-Qladstono Ministry— The ’’Dishing of the Whigs ” and After —'Jthe First Gladstone Administration — Gladstone’s Opinion on Homo Kale in 1871—Disraeli’s Triumph in 1874—The Bulgarian Massacres—The Downfall of *' Dizzy ’ ’ —lrish Troubl es—Egypt, Ihe Soudan and The Transvaal—The Fourth Party ” —Defeat of the Government—The First Home Rule Bill—Dark but not Despairing Days—Prime Minister for the Last Tune—Mr Gladstone as a Debater Mr Gladstone as a Book-lover —The Closing Scenes of a Great Career—Finis. A limited number only of Extra Copies will be Printed. OJRDERS SHOULD BE GIVEN AT ONCE.

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