PREFACE.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. BIRTH AND SCHOOLDAYS.

CHAPTER II. GLADSTONE AT OXFORD.

CHAPTER III. ENTERS PARLIAMENT.

CHAPTER IV. M.P. FOR OXFORD UNIVERSITY.

CHAPTER V. MR. GLADSTONE'S ECCLESIASTICAL OPINIONS.

CHAPTER VI. MR. GLADSTONE AND THE DIVORCE BILL.

CHAPTER VII. POLITICS AGAIN.

CHAPTER VIII. POLITICS AND THE IRISH CHURCH.

CHAPTER IX. EDUCATION AND IRELAND.

CHAPTER X. IRELAND UNDER MR. FORSTER.

CHAPTER XI. HOME RULE.

CHAPTER XII. MR. GLADSTONE'S SPEECHES.

CHAPTER XIII. MR. GLADSTONE'S PUBLICATIONS.

CHAPTER XIV. ANECDOTAL AND CHARACTERISTIC.

CHAPTER XV. MR. GLADSTONE'S LETTERS.

CHAPTER XVI. MR. GLADSTONE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES.

CHAPTER XVII. AT HOME.

ADVERTISEMENTS.

An Anecdotal Biography.

BY
J. EWING RITCHIE
(CHRISTOPHER CRAYON),

AUTHOR OF ‘CITIES OF THE DAWN,’ ‘CRYING FOR THE LIGHT,’ ETC.

LONDON:
T. FISHER UNWIN,
PATERNOSTER SQUARE.

NEW YORK: G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS.
1898.