SPARE MOMENTS OF BUSY MEN.
It is an axiom that the busiest men find most easily spare time. Certainly "the present race of English statesmen are an instance in point. Recently, while in the middle of the electoral contest, Mr Gladstone wrote an article in the Nineteenth Century on the Dawn of Creation, which is admitted to be one of his most successful and impassioned essays. Now it is announced that Lord Salisbury is going to publish the results of some abstruse work in chemicil analysis performel while he has been bringing Europe round to his sagacious view of the Eastern Question. Nor are minor politicians idle. Mr John Morley, one of the most active and advanced Liberals, is preparing an elaborate answer to Sir Heny Maine's complaints against Popular Government, which will see the light in an early number of a monthly magazine, A teste for belles lettrea and literature has often been indulged in by statesmen. Lord Salisbury, however, may rank as the first scientist of his order, though Brougham crammed up enough science for sensational articles, and Lord Palmerston delighted in tho unscientific reading of science.— Houio Nows.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 11127, 12 February 1886, Page 2
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