Show U < I > lone Lose for Heading When Sir Olndilono tires of politics I l In turns to literature ani no nuu In thu three kluudoms Jjas a wider range books to Selett frOm for just at preSent or rather since jbalcle Sj time day that he reviewed Mrs Humphry Ward Ito crt Els mere and jJSe lint much discussed dis-cussed book an Impetu ibal it would not have obtained otlierwi authors young and old and pub IIshero I good and bad have flooded the Grand Old Man with literature of all kind It 18 i hardly necessary to joint out the value ot the review that Mr Gladstone gave MJS Wards book from a commercial ltOIImL A great many people In England still insist that it is a vastly overrated book and that if it had not been for the nttcn Uorr which Mr GbuMono paid It it would have run Its Mow length of a few thmousandcoplesand died as many better or worse books do even twelverconth Bo that it LIV ille uiflldont MrGlad stone to lend lib name to any Iit rte itr r-te tl o to gIve I otltc n promi mince that if ould I not otherwise obtain and his libiary tabls b i crowded with books on religion on statecraft philosophy and romance ra t I sent by authors anti publishers Mr Gladstone is i in every respect a great jeatler lie siends more hue iow Hi reading books than he did twentyfive years ago Anything Any-thing aud everything that comes to him Is grist to his mill He doesnt mind wading through chapter after chapter if he only finds a kernel of ruth OP a nugget of pure gold at hu end He is particularly fond of woks of travel and politics and sfrn lllI l here is no country that Interests him to nilich as America its people peo-ple and its politicians A great deal of uI his reading b i done as a rant er of duty or work if you iilcase ffai A i anti after lie has finished that and is so thoroughly I tired out that most men would take to tIme woods or to a tick room the great statesman states-man turns to his Latin or Greek for rest and repose If there Is one ulject dear to his heart after pollt hem and statecraft It is religion He has no favorite author he find good in all school and hu rays indeed in-deed it mutt be n very poor writer who cant tl1 dn something to say hat will interest even tlicbuslest of lien ami the most learned Hulas Hu-las tie faculty oftkimming through n book and getting the salient point In a few hours To Americans it will be of Inler tst to know that Mr Gladstone ro cives a large number of American rutinpers and magazines and that he is well Informed on all urrciit American topics I Ic keepe several secretaries buoy and when he finds a striking joint in a book or newspaper he turns down the age or marks it to he clipped by his daughter Miss I nor Gladstone n-or his wife or one ot his secretaries and strange to say he can turn to It years afterwards at a moments notice Hu has a wonderful mem 01 too and knows a great deal more of American men of letters han most people I would suppose Ito Is an Intense admirer of James Hu > cell lowell and IIret Hart He has a magnificent library of seceding value and K constantly dding to It lIe is one of thu few great men of Oils world who is I not lianntl to bu ecu alouu on the street and he often spend an hour 1 tl rjso iu somu old looksellerV shop I mi the Strand or In Cornhlll Hu is the owner of many rare and valuable valu-able works aud whenever there is Ian I-an important book ale either hl ou J herbert or one of his secretaries is I present to bid in any valuable or rare volume that may be ottered He ha spent a fortune on his library libra-ry and when annoyed by the cares of olitical life always find rest and viilentment thnIAI1ir Vomc Journal |