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Show Gladstones Memory. Gladstone's power of momory was always ono of his greatest assots. In his last years ho often lamented that It was not what it had been; but oven bo, It camo triumphantly out of somo romarkablo tests. In his eighty-third year ho sot hlmsolf to recall Mnnzonl'a odo on tho death of Napoleon, which, i ns a young man, ho had translated I Into English. Ho had entirely forgot- ton his own version, but by dint ot i hard "digging" or "fishing up," as ho . 8 called It, ho wroto down 104 ot tho 9 108 Italian linos. Two years later ho 1 essayed to writo from momory a com- plete list of all tho men who had been his cabinet colleagues, and enumerated enumer-ated 60 of the 70. |