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The Life Of William Ewart Gladstone
By
John Morley
In Three Volumes Vol. III.
(1890 1898)
Toronto
George N. Morang & Company, Limited
Copyright, 1903
By The Macmillan Company
CONTENTS
Book VIII. 1880 1885
Chapter I. Opening Days Of The New Parliament. (1880)
Chapter II. An Episode In Toleration. (1880 1883)
Chapter III. Majuba. (1880 1881)
Chapter IV. New Phases Of The Irish Revolution. (1880 1882)
Chapter V. Egypt. (1881 1882)
Chapter VI. Political Jubilee. (1882 1883)
Chapter VII. Colleagues Northern Cruise Egypt. (1883)
Chapter VIII. Reform. (1884)
Chapter IX. The Soudan. (1884 1885)
Chapter X. Interior Of The Cabinet. (1895)
Chapter XI. Defeat Of Ministers. (May June 1885)
Chapter XII. Accession Of Lord Salisbury. (1885)
Book IX. 1885 1886
Chapter I. Leadership And The General Election. (1885)
Chapter II. The Polls In 1885. (1885)
Chapter III. A Critical Month (December 1885)
Chapter IV. Fall Of The First Salisbury Government. (January 1886)
Chapter V. The New Policy. (1886)
Chapter VI. Introduction Of The Bill. (1886)
Chapter VII. The Political Atmosphere. Defeat Of The Bill. (1886)
Book X. 1886 1892
Chapter I. The Morrow Of Defeat. (1886 1887)
Chapter II. The Alternative Policy In Act. (1886 1888)
Chapter III. The Special Commission. (1887 1890)
Chapter IV. An Interim. (1889 1891)
Chapter V. Breach With Mr. Parnell. (1890 1891)
Chapter VI. Biarritz. (1891 1892)
Chapter VII. The Fourth Administration. (1892 1894)
Chapter VIII. Retirement From Public Life. (1894)
Chapter IX. The Close. (1894 1898)
Chapter X. Final.
Appendix
Irish Local Government, 1883. (Page 103)
General Gordon's Instructions. (Page 153)
The Military Position In The Soudan, April 1885. (Page 179)
Home Rule Bill, 1886. (Page 308)
On The Place Of Italy. (Page 415)
The Naval Estimates Of 1894.
Mr. Gladstone's Cabinet Colleagues. (Page 525)
Chronology
Footnotes
BOOK VIII. 1880 1885
Chapter I. Opening Days Of The New Parliament. (1880)
Il y a bien du factice dans le classement politique des hommes.
GUIZOT.
There is plenty of what is purely artificial in the political
classification of men.
I
On May 20, after eight and forty years of strenuous public life, Mr.
Gladstone met his twelfth parliament, and the second in which he had been
chief minister of the crown. "At 4.15," he records, "I went down to the
House with Herbert. There was a great and fervent crowd in Palace Yard,
and much feeling in the House. It almost overpowered me, as I thought by
what deep and hidden agencies I have been brought back into the midst of
the vortex of political action and contention. It has not been in my power
during these last six months to have made notes, as I would have wished,
of my own thoughts and observations from time to time; of the new access
of strength which in some important respects has been administered to me
in my old age; and of the remarkable manner in which Holy Scripture has
been applied to me for admonition and for comfort. Looking calmly on this
course of experience, I do believe that the Almighty has employed me for
His purposes in a manner larger or more special than before, and has
strengthened me and led me on accordingly, though I must not forget the
admirable saying of Hooker, that even ministers of good things are like
torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves."
One who approached his task in such a spirit as this was at least
impregnable to ordinary mortifications, and it was well; for before many
days were over it became perceptible that the new parliament and the new
majority would be no docile instrument of ministerial will... Continue reading book >>
