[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "]
SIR,—Professor Jones, of Liverpool, in last week's issue corrects the reviewer of a book in your paper for repeating a very old statement " that Mr. Gladstone went to the theatre on the night that he learned of Gordon's death." In answer to this he points out that Mr. Morley in his Life of Gladstone says: " The story is untrue." Now Mr. Morley no doubt writes from conviction, but he gives no reasons for his denial; and as the statement was universally credited at the time, and com- mented on then even by so great an admirer of Mr. Gladstone as the Spectator, I think it ought not to have been dismissed with a simple denial. For my part, though I never was, and am not now, an admirer of Mr. Gladstone's policy, I am anxious, even for that very reason, to do him no injustice, and should be so even if I did not honour the man in a way that I cannot possibly honour the policy of the statesman. I should like to know, therefore, are there any rebutting evidences ?-
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