CONTENTS
CHAPTER XXIV. CONVERSATIONS WITH MR. GLADSTONE
CHAPTER XXV. HERBERT SPENCER, THE THINKER
CHAPTER XXVI. SINGULAR CAREER OF MR. DISRAELI
CHAPTER XXVII. CHARACTERISTICS OF JOSEPH COWEN
CHAPTER XXVIII. CHARACTERISTICS OF JOSEPH COWEN
CHAPTER XXIX. THE PERIL OF SCRUPLES
CHAPTER XXX. TAKING SIDES
CHAPTER XXXI. THINGS WHICH WENT AS THEY WOULD
CHAPTER XXXII. STORY OF THE LAMBETH PALACE GROUNDS
CHAPTER XXXIII. SOCIAL WONDERS ACROSS THE WATER
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH AT SEA
CHAPTER XXXV. ADVENTURES IN THE STREETS
CHAPTER XXXVI. LIMPING THRIFT
CHAPTER XXXVII. MISTRUST OF MODERATION
CHAPTER XXXVIII. PENAL CHRISTIANITY
CHAPTER XXXIX. TWO SUNDAYS
CHAPTER XL. BYWAYS OF LIBERTY
CHAPTER XLI. LAWYERS' LICENCE
CHAPTER XLII. CHRISTIAN DAYS
CHAPTER XLIII. NEW CONVICTIONS WHICH CAME UNSOUGHT
CHAPTER XLIV. DIFFICULTY OF KNOWING MEN
CHAPTER XLV. IDEAS FOR THE YOUNG
CHAPTER XLVI. EXPERIENCES ON THE WARPATH
CHAPTER XLVII. LOOKING BACKWARDS
Were I to edit a new journal again I should call it Open Thought. I know no characteristic of man so wise, so useful, so full of promise of progress as this. The great volume of Nature, of Man and of Society opens a new page every day, and Mr. Gladstone read it. It was this which gave him that richness of information in which he excited the admiration of all who conversed with him.
Were Plutarch at hand to write Historical Parallels of famous men of our time, he might compare Voltaire and Gladstone. Dissimilar as they were in nature, their points of resemblance were notable. Voltaire was the most conspicuous man in Europe in the eighteenth century, as Mr