20 FEBRUARY 1897, Page 22

The Political Life of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone.

Illustrated trom Punch. Vol. I. (Bradbury, Agnew, and Co.)—This first volume, as far as 1876, the year of the Bulgarian atrocities, is not a book that can be properly criticised in these columns. ro do so adequately would be to discuss again almost every political question that has been dealt with in the Spectator. And then, again, every one knows what Punch's pictures have been. Get it suffice to say that the anonymous author of the book, who is clearly Gladstonianis partibus hand iniquus, has done his work in a satisfactory way.