A portrait of Mr. Gladstone, sent by the Canadian Liberals
through Mr. E. Blake, M.P., to the National Liberal Club was unveiled under Lord Rosebery's auspices, on Monday evening at that club, at a particular point in Mr. Blake's speech, when he had insisted on the wide-world familiarity which all the politicians of our planet who feel any interest in our great statesman, are able to acquire with Mr. Gladstone's. aims and objects, ideas and aspirations, plans and methods of life. The picture, by a Canadian artist, Mr. J. Colin Forbes, is rather more than full-length, and is described as extremely lifelike. It was painted only six months ago, so that it repre- sents the Mr. Gladstone of to-day. Mr. Blake's speech, much as it was eulogised by Lord Rosebery, contained little more than an easy and eloquent statement of the admiration of the Canadian people for Mr. Gladstone's policy and personal power. The admiration for his present policy Unionists cannot at all share; but the admiration for his personal power they probably feel even more vividly than his own followers.
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