James Bryce, who sat in Gladstone’s cabinets, attempts the hard task of summing him up. In short chapters he traces the early influences that formed him and assesses him as parliamentarian and orator, as an original and independent mind, in society, as author and scholar, and in the religious faith that underlay everything.
A brief, perceptive appreciation of the Victorian statesman by one of the finest political writers of the age. Download the free EPUB.