ts moral elevation; and proceeds to ask how he
can procure copies of the articles on _Ecce Homo_, as to which his
curiosity has been aroused. A couple of notes (1864 and 1871) from
Garibaldi, the great revolutionist, are neighbours to letters (1851-74)
from Guizot, the great conservative. Three or four lines in French from
Garibaldi were given to Mr. Gladstone the day before leaving Cliveden and
England (April 24, 1864): "In leaving you pray accept a word of
recognition for all the kindness you have heaped upon me, and for the
generous interest you have at all times shown for the cause of my
country.--Your devoted G. GARIBALDI." The other shorter still (1871) begs
him to do something for a French refugee. Minghetti, Ricasoli, and others
of that celebrated group commemorate his faithful and effective good will
to Italy. Daniel Manin the Venetian thanks him in admirable English for
some books, as well as for his energetic and courageous act in drawing a
perfidious king (Naples) before the bar of public opinion. Manzoni gives
to a friend a letter of introduction (1845), and with Italian warmth of
phrase expresses his lively recollection of the day on which he made Mr.
Gladstone's acquaintance, and the admiration with which his name is
followed. Merimee, the polished and fastidious genius, presents to him a
French consul at Corfu (1858) who in his quality of philhellene and
hellenist desires ardently to make the acquaintance of Homer's learned and
eloquent commentator. Lesseps, whose hand gave so tremendous and
impressive a turn to forces, policies, currents of trade, promises (1870)
to keep an appointment, when he will have the double honour of being
presented to the Princess Louise by a man so universally respected for the
high services he has rendered to the Queen, to his country, and to the
progress of the world.

If the language is polyglot, the topics are encyclopaedic. Bishops send him
their charges; if a divine translates a hymn, he submits it; if he hits
upon an argument on the mysteries of the faith, or the vexed themes of
theological debate, he despatches pages and pages to Hawarden, and
receives page upon page in reply. Young authors, and especially young
authoresses pestered him to review their books, though his patience and
good nature make 'pester' seem an inapplicable word. A Scotch professor
for some reason or another copies out and forwards to him one of Goethe's
reflections and maxims:--

How may a