"A GREAT PORTRAIT."
The highest possible compliments are paid in the " Quarterly " to Mr John Morley for Mb "Life of Gladstone." "It is a great portrait of a, great man." The question is put whether the biography will tend to re-establish Mr Gladstone's moral ascendency over the minds and consciences of his countrymen. f And the reply is — remarkable as coming from the Conservative review which has the most severely condemned the Gladstone policy of late years— that now that the st,ress of circumstance and the unseemly stain* of party conflict are passing away, it will be well if there is suohi a result. Gladstone, it i« pointed out, stands for one ideal, as Bismarck, his greatest, contemporary, stands for another. "On the one hand, we have the gospel of force, the ethics of Machiavelli, combined with the duplicity of Elizabeth; on the other a sustained conviction that what is wrong in private life cannot be right in public life ; a large and expanding love of freedom, and a life-long endeavour to raise politics to the level of Christianity."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7892, 23 December 1903, Page 2
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