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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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aper duty. He was the real author ofthe extension of the franchise to the workmen of thetowns, and the actiial author of the enfranchisementof the rm-al householder. He established secret vot-ing, and agieed to give effect to the Tory demand forsingle-member constituencies. It was in his admin-istration that the first Education Act was passed, andthat purchase in the army was abolished. He hasdone his share in the liberation of labor from theCombination Laws, in the emancipation of the Jewsand in the repeal of University Tests. He first taughtthe democracy, by the great object lesson of his IrishLand Act, that the so-called cast-iron laws of politicaleconomy could be banished to Saturn, and that thewhole power and resoiirces of the Imperial State couldbe emi)loyed to set poor men up in biisiness on theirovvTi account. He was the first to disestablish anddisendow a National Church, and to compel the Brit-ish public to consider the feasibility of establisliing 446 THE REymw OF RE^IEIVS.
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MR. GLADSTONES IRISH POLICY. AN EMBLEMATICAL DESIGN BY MR. WALTER CRANE AND MR. HENRY HOLIDAY, GLADSTONE: A CHARACTER SKETCH. U7 subordinate and statutory parliaments within theBritish Isles. Over and above all else he the scholar,the statesman and the Nestor of Parliamentary tradi-tion, was the first to bring the most difficult and deli-cate questions of foreign policy to the rude but de-cisive test of the mass meeting, and transferred themotive force of the British State from Parliament tothe platform. HIS PLACE IN HISTORY. A nobleman, a scholar, and a gieat personal friendof Mr. Gladstone, wTote in 1887 the following com-parative study of his place in history:— Among thegreat English statesmen whose figures will loom largethrough the dusk of departed centuries WilliamEwart Gladstone will occupy a leading place. Chat-ham could inspire a nation with liis energy, but com-pared with Gladstone he was poorly furnished bothwith knowledge and ideas. Fox, who probably mostresembles him as

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