Gladstone's Letters.

Waiapu Church Gazette, 1 August 1910, Page 21

Gladstone's Letters.

The publication of Gladstone's Letters on religious and ecclesiastical questions is something more than a mere literary event Its interest will appeal to Churchmen, to historians, to politicians, and to all classes of society. No more fitting person could have been named for the editorship of these Letters than Mr. Lathbury, a writer who is known for his sympathy with Mr Gladstone's religious and political views. The Letters are arranged, not m chronological order, but according to subjects, with this advantage to the reader, that, under any given head, he can study the development of Mr Gladstone's opinions. These new volumes were needed to supplement the Life which Lord Morley compiled, but which, for obvious reasons, ho left incomplete, saying that the duty of completing it must be fulfilled by someone "m full and active sympathy with him on this side of the mundane and supermundane things." In due course we shall, after perusing Mr Lathbury 's book, be m a position more adequately to appraise the merits of the editor, to whom, we are sure, the task he assumed was a real labour of love,