THE CHURCH QUARTERLY REVIEW FOR APRIL 1904 JULY 1904 VOLUME LVIII LONDON PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY SPOTTISWOODE & CO. LTD., NEW-STREET SQUARE, E.C. CONTENTS. PAGE THE NEW SAYINGS OF JESUS CANON HENSON'S APOLOGIA THE CHURCH QUARTERLY REVIEW. No CXV. APRIL 1904. ART. I.-WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone. By JOHN MORLEY. In three volumes. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1903.) THESE volumes are the work of a master. Mr. Morley has had a wide field to traverse; his subject is sufficiently imposing in itself; he has chosen the way of plain, composed, straightforward narrative. He gives his reader credit for seriousness; he exacts from him a steady application; his purpose is to convey to him a grip of fact, and to fix attention upon it calmly as fact. The natural man may hunger for a little more of the glow and momentum of a great theme; he would like to feel, beneath the sober record, something more of the tingle of romance. Mr. Morley is wholly regardless of such humours. He is lucid and dispassionate. His tone is that of a learned counsel whose duty it is to present a case, but by no means to incline a judgment. The effect is not a little remarkable. It is to remove the matter of one of the most contentious of lives beyond the region of contention, and to provide the men of our time, who knew and felt the influence of Gladstone, with the materials of a sober and valid judgment which the wisdom of the future will not readily overthrow. VOL. LVIII-NO. CXV. в |