Table of Contents

Front Matter

William Ewart Gladstone
Childhood
School Life
At Oxford
Member for Newark
Marriage
For Conscience' Sake
Member for Oxford
A "First Rate Performance"
Mr. Gladstone's Holiday
His First Budget
Some Personal Characteristics
A War Budget
A Congenial Task
A Liberal
Rejected for Oxford
Reform
Prime Minister
Retirement
Life at Hawarden
Some of Gladstone's Sayings
Justice for Bulgaria
A Breakdown
Storm and Stress
Gathering Clouds
Gladstone and Tennyson
Other Old Friends
Home Rule
His Last Fight
As Scholar and Orator
Extracts from Speeches
A Gift to the Nation
The End
The Nation's Loss