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Show bis extreme physical gifts the wonderful won-derful quality of bis voice. It was a powerful voice, but sweet and melodious, me-lodious, and" It was managed as exquisitely ex-quisitely and as faithfully as the song of a great prima donna. "If the sixeoh were ringing. It came to your ears almost soft by that constant con-stant change of tone whlcb the voice displayed; It could whisper, It could thunder." Gladstone's Oratory T. P. O'Connor, In his book, "Memoirs "Mem-oirs of an Old Parliamentarian," sketches a word-picture of William Ewart Gladstone, British statesman, who died in 1S!8: "As lie walked up the floor of the bouse be seemed to be enveloped by a great solitude so unmistakably did he stand out from all the figures around blm. "I must add to this description of |