5 SEPTEMBER 1896, Page 24

Mr. Gladstone in the Evening of his Days. (Westminster Gazette.)

—This volume is a republication of papers which appeared in the journal from whose office it is now sent out. It is pleasant to read, for the subject is one in which all English-speaking people may take a kindly interest. The taste with which it ia put together seldom or never fails. We have a prejudice, now old-fashioned, we suppose, so oppoved is it to universal practice,. against giving to the world the details of personal life. But there can be no serious complaint when the matter and the are such as they are in this volume. To the pleasure of reading about "St. Deiniol's Library and Hostel" there is no drawback.