Gladstone And Disraeli

I beard nearly all the gr't speeches made by bcth the men in mat parliamentary duel, which lasted for so many years. My ova observation and judgment gave the superiority to Mr. Glad srone all tbrough, bnt I quite admit that Disraeli stood up well to his greafc opponent and that it was not always easy to award the prize of victory. The trwo rnen's voices were curiously unlike. Disraeli had a deep, low, powerful voice, heard everywhere throughout the house, but having little variety or music in it. Gladstone's voice was tuned to a higher note, was penetrating, resonant, liquid and full of an exquisite modulation and music which gave new shades of rueaning to every ernphasized word. The ways of the men were in almost every respect curiously uulike. Gladstone was always eagerfor couversation. He loved to talk to anybody about anythiug. Disraeli, even among his most intímate friends, was given to frequent fits of absoluta and apparently gloomy silence. Gladstoue, after his earlier parlia mentary days, became almost entirely indifferent to dress. Disraeli always turned out in the newest fashion, and down to his latest years went in the get upof a young man about town. Not less different were the characters and temperaments of the two men. Gladstone changed his political opiniona many times during his long parliamentary career, but he changed his opinions only in deference to the fcrce of a growing conviction and to the recoguition of facts and conditions which he could no longer conscientiously dispute. Nobody probably ever knewwhat Mr. Disraeli's real opinions were upoii any political question or whether he had any real opinions at all. Gladstone began as a Tory and gradually became changed into a Badical. Disraeli began as an extreme Badical under the patronage of Daniel O'Connell and chauged into a Tory. But everybody kuew that Gladstone was at first a sincere Tory and at last a sincere Badical. Nobody knew, or, indeed, cared, whether Disraeli ever was either a sincere Radical