Any one who wants to see a truly noble statue
of the greatest statesman of our time should go to the covered building on the Embankment, in the immediate neighbourhood of St. Stephen's Club, to see the clay model of Mr. Bruce Joy's -colossal statue of Mr. Gladstone, which is to be, or already is, cast in bronze, and is to be put up at Bow. It is, in our opinion, a statue of the highest merit, life-like, majestic, and full of gentle force. It has not that fiery expression which Mr. Glad- stone's face sometimes wears, still less has it the sullen ex- pression which Mr. Richmond's unfortunate portrait of him just now exhibiting in the Grosvenor Gallery, wears. It is earnest, thoughtful, and benignant, and it is Mr. Gladstone himself. We have seen no likeness of him in painting or marble to which we would sooner refer a stranger who wished to know what tilt, great orator is really like.
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