14 SEPTEMBER 1889, Page 23

John Bright, the Man of the People. By Jesse Page.

(S. W. Part- ridge.)—This is a perhaps somewhat effusive, yet on the whole admirable and successful attempt to do justice to the life and work of John Bright. It is altogether unpretentious, but all the more successful on that account ; the writer, indeed, practically allows Mr. Bright to tell his own story in his own words, and all through represents him as being, what, indeed, he was, the impersonation of a particular view of Christian morality as applied to British politics.