And yet there was something more.

The brilliant light of the early days of our century has become dim and cold in those hearts and minds which have not had the power to grow and expand with their ages.

But with that splendid sanity of body as well as mind which belongs to him, Mr.Gladstone is the creature of the ending of the nineteenth as of the beginning of the twentieth century.

Like the man of Arctic climes, he stands almost at the same moment in the sunset of one great century and the heralding light of the sunrise of another..