The Atlantic Monthly, 1898, Vol. 82

Excerpt from The Atlantic Monthly, 1898, Vol. 82: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics To serve under such a leader as Sir Robert Peel was one of the fortunate happenings of Gladstone's life. His, too, was a conscientious mind. We may sometimes have to doubt an equal direct ness in its working, as compared with the inżexible candor of Peel; but the desire for right was controlling in both. Gladstone was intellectually more alert, and he possessed an imagination that was lacking in his chief. In tempera ment he was a far more impressionable man, and much more disposed by his nature to become responsive to the ex panding and liberalizing tendencies of his age. That natural disposition in him was still oppressed by one tyrannical pre possession of mind; but its liberation approached, and the younger and the elder statesman were soon attuned to a harmony of cooperation which developed the best powers of the one as much as it assisted the work of the other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.