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[66] Arthur Lyttelton's. See his "Modern Poets of Faith, Doubt and Paganism, and other Essays" (Murray).
[67] This refers to the inscription Lord Acton inserted in Ruskin's "Arrows of the Chace"--"From a False Believer."
[68] Speech on introducing the Peace Preservation Bill.
[69] Dublin Castle.
[70] George Eliot's husband.
[71] On the introduction of the new rules of Procedure after the expulsion of the Irish Members.
[72] The late Lord Stanley of Alderley.
[73] The Editor of the _Edinburgh Review_.
[74] Trevelyan.
[75] In "Endymion."
[76] The obstruction of the Peace Preservation Bill, which ended in the autocratic intervention of the Speaker, and the removal of the Irish Members from the House.
[77] Sir Arthur G.o.dley, at that time private secretary to Mr. Gladstone.
[78] Sir Erskine May.
[79] The Jacobite description of the mole whose burrowings caused the death of William the Third by making his horse stumble.
[80] The Comte de Serre was a Minister under Louis XVIII., and a leader of the Moderate Royalists after the Restoration.
[81] Sir John Lubbock's.
[82] For closing debate.
[83] At this period shadowing Mr. Gladstone's movements.
[84] Sir John Lubbock, in conversation with Miss Gladstone, complained of the lack of a guide or supreme authority in the choice of books.
She suggested Lord Acton, and mentioned this talk in writing to him.
[85] Harold Browne.
[86] Lightfoot.
[87] Sir James Paget, the great surgeon.
[88] By Robert Wallace, afterwards M.P. for East Edinburgh. The definition, "trust in the people, tempered by prudence," was laid down by Mr. Gladstone himself in a speech at Oxford in 1877.
[89] Of Liberty.
[90] On the Peace Preservation Bill.
[91] Mr. Brand, afterwards Lord Hampden.
[92] Carlyle's.
[93] See page 40.
[94] John K. Ingram, Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, and author of the article on Political Economy in the _Encyclopaedia Britannica_.
[95] Mr. Gladstone fell on the ice as he entered the gardens of Downing Street, and cut open the back of his head.
[96] Sir Bartle Frere, then Governor of Cape Colony.
[97] Miss Dempster.
[98] "Sermons in a College Chapel," by J. R. Illingworth.
[99] George Sand.
[100] Gladstone, Tennyson, and Paget.
[101] Leo XIII.
[102] Dublin Castle.
[103] Minghetti and Bonghi.
[104] Dr. Dollinger.
[105] _i.e._, of Mr. Gladstone.
[106] Lord Acton said elsewhere of Lee--"The greatest general the world has ever seen, with the possible exception of Napoleon."
[107] Mr. Gladstone's.
[108] At Cannes.
[109] Scartazzini's.
[110] Illingworth's "In a College Chapel."
[111] Of George Eliot.
[112] George Sand.
[113] Meaning the Irish Land Bill. The reference is to the agrarian laws of Tib. and C. Semp.r.o.nius Gracchus.
[114] On Carlyle.
[115] Midhat Pacha was the head of the reforming party in Turkey at that time.
