4 MAY 1889, page 7

Mr. Gladstone And The " Impot Progressif."

M R GLADSTONE'S self-examinations must some- times, we think, take the form of asking himself whether he has or has not played more adroitly than he ought to have done the part......

Mr. Gladstone On Italy.

M UCH of Mr. Gladstone's article in this month's Nineteenth Century is in his happiest vein,— brimming over with buoyant optimism, and full of noble and generous sentiments. But......

The Paralysis Of The House Of Commons.

T F there is an atom of evidence for the Gla,dstonians' con- tention that the country is with them, it is to be found in the dull quiescence with which the constituencies watch......