Wrong-headed--perhaps very self-conceited--at all events, entirely left behind by the advancing democratic tide, the Duke of Argyll is yet always to me a sympathetic and striking figure.

If he thinks badly, at least he thinks originally.
His thoughts are his own, and nobody else's; and though he is a bitter controversialist, at least he feels the weight and gravity of the vast questions on which he pronounces.

Above all things, he has a touch of the divine in his oratory.

He is, indeed, almost the last inspired speaker left in the House of Lords.

There is another speaker, of whom more presently, with extraordinary gifts, with also true oratorical powers, capable of producing mighty effects; but with Lord Rosebery the light is very clear and very dry; there is none of the softness and brilliancy, and poetic and imaginative insight which are to be found in the speeches of the Duke of Argyll.