see also under Ireland)
Colebrooke, Sir E.,
125 Coleridge, S. T.,
71,
151 Collard, Roger, cited,
84 Colquhoun, Miss (Lady Limerick),
64 Commynes, cited,
35 Conolly,
xlix Conscience—
Development of,
168 Independence of,
15 Jesuit attitude towards,
39 "John Inglesant," case of,
145 Consent, government by,
68 Conservatism,
see Toryism
"Consuelo,"
83 Contract, freedom of,
92 Coombe Warren,
188 Copenhagen, battle of,
lxxi Copernicus,
lxvii Coriolis,
161 Corker,
134 Coulanges, Fustel de,
xix County Franchise Bill,
108 note[
146]
Courtney, Rt. Hon. Leonard,
53,
197 Cowper, Earl,
16,
153 —— Henry,
1 Craven, Mrs.,
161,
171 Creighton, Bishop, editor of
English Historical Review,
lxiv;
estimate of,
197 Cressy,
140 Croker Papers,
199-201 Cromwell, Oliver,
5-6,
71,
93 Cross, Mr.,
64 and
note[
70],
117,
162,
166,
173,
198,
205
Dante,
40,
57; "Inferno,"
44,
143 and
note; "Paradiso,"
83,
159 and
note[
185]
Darboy, Archbishop,
xlii-xliv,
xlix Davenport,
140 "David Copperfield,"
34 Davitt, Michael,
68 Decazes,
161 Deceased Wife's Sister Bill,
169 and
note Delane,
13,
24 Delisle, Leopold,
162-163 Democracy—
Danger of,
91 Disraeli's transformation of England into a,
86 Doctrines of, distinct from wishes of Democrats,
7 Government by, success of,
93 Inconstancy of,
9,
91,
101 Principles of,
48 Progress of, a certainty,
44 Unity of power the tendency of,
124 "Democracy" (American novel),
58,
159-160 "Democracy in America,"
xix "Democracy in Europe,"
lviii Democrats—
Constructive power of,
117 Murder identified with insurrection by,
103 Whig dependence on,
108 Demosthenes,
88 Dempster, Miss,
77 note[
97]
Derby, 14th Earl,
xxiii,
65,
69 ——, 15th Earl, estimate of,
109; otherwise mentioned,
72,
87,
108,
110,
117,
174 ——, Lady,
108-109 Descartes,
130,
146 De Serre,
68 and
note[
80],
75 Detachment,
71,
105 Devonshire, Duke of (
d. 1891),
10 and
note[
16]
D'Harcourt, Marquis,
1 Diary of Miss M. Gladstone, extract from,
113 and
note Diary-keeping,
14,
30 Diaz, Porfirio,
xxxviii Dickens, Charles,
34,
41,
163 Dilke, Sir Charles, Gladstone's estimate of,
114 note; at Cannes,
205;
otherwise mentioned,
24,
43,
214 Dillon, John,
103 Disraeli,
see Beaconsfield
Döllinger, Dr.—
Acton's studies under,
xvii,
xix; article on,
lxxv; estimate of,
2 Bryce's estimate of,
lx Chamberlain, views on,
170 Congress of Munich, plea at,
xxxiii Excommunication of,
xlix Gladstone's visit to,
li Liddon, views on,
182,
191 Otherwise mentioned,
xliii,
57,
80,
192 Donne,
131 Drew, Mrs.,
viii,
lxiii Dufaure,
2 Duff, Sir M. Grant,
ix,
xxxiv,
xxxvii note;
Spectator article by,
lxxi Dufferin, Marquis of,
153 and
note,
195 Duffy, Sir C. G.,
112 and
note[
150]
Dupanloup,
xliv,
xlix Durham, Bishop of (Westcott),
70,
203
Ecclesiastical Titles Act,
li Economist,
24,
29 Ecuador,
74 Edinburgh Review,
5,
50,
65 note[
73]
Egypt—
Alexandria, bombardment of, and complications,
156-159 Evacuation of, views on,
169,
179,
188-189 Northbrook's mission to,
190 and
note Eliot, George—
Death of,
57 Dickens on "Scenes from Clerical Life,"
163 Estimate of,
57,
60-61,
62 Gladstone's attitude towards,
lix,
109 Letters of,
121,
166 Life of,
64,
83,
162,
198 Lyttelton's review of,
59 Montégut on,
165 Philosophy of,
121 Political divergence from,
210 Scherer on,
207 Otherwise mentioned,
5,
34,
109 Ellenborough, Lord,
xxiii,
93 Eloquence, French,
78 "Endymion,"
52 and
note[
1]
Enfield,
197 Equality, doctrine of,
lix,
8,
48 Erasmus,
lxvii Errington, Sir George,
122 and
note,
123 "Expansion of England, The,"
6 and
note[
10]-8
Faber,
206 Fabricius,
134 Fagan,
53 Faith—
Patriotism analagous to,
xxix Political,
199 Sincerity implied in,
168 Falloux, quoted,
88 Fanaticism,
144 Fawcett, Rt. Hon. Henry,
24 Female suffrage,
180-181 Ferry, Jules, bill of, on unauthorised congregations,
1,
7 and
note Flower, Mrs. (Lady Battersea),
42 and
note,
43 Forbes, Bishop of Brechin,
150,
183 Forster, Rt. Hon. W. E., speeches of,
36,
62; Blennerhassett on,
73;
Gladstone's estimate of,
114 note; resignation of,
153-154; on
"Democracy,"
160; mentioned,
74 Forwood,
192 Fox, C. J., estimate of,
45; Trevelyan's Life of,
52-53; Chatham
compared with,
81; otherwise mentioned,
99,
200 France—
Best living writers of,
6 Commercial treaty with,
xxiii,
113 Debates, famous, in,
75 Democracy in,
93 Eloquence of,
78 Gladstone's attitude towards literature of,
46-47,
82 Peasants in, condition of,
112 Fraser, Bishop,
203 Free government,
68 Freedom,
see Liberty
Freeman, lxxvi,
70,
149,
177 Frere, Sir Bartle, estimate of,
17,
66; Toryism and jingoism of,
77 and
note[
96]; mentioned,
29 Frère-Orban,
54,
76 Freycinet,
39 Froude, J. A., "Life of Carlyle" by,
151; otherwise mentioned,
xi,
70,
74,
144,
177
Gambetta,
22,
104 Gardiner, S. R., correspondence with, on "John Inglesant,"
126,
128;
poverty of,
129; recommended for the Record Office,
149; at
King's College, 150: contemplated paper on "John Inglesant,"
151; otherwise mentioned,
177,
196,
198 Gaskell, Milnes,
47 Gavard,
11 "Gendre de M. Poirier, Le,"
3 George, Henry,
170 and
note[
202],
175 Germany—
Carlyle's view of,
70,
82,
104 Gladstone's attitude towards literature of,
xxii,
46-47,
82 Socialism in,
170,
175 Gibbon,
59 Gibson, Rt. Hon. J. G. (Lord Ashbourne),
129 Gladstone, Helen,
32,
173 —— Herbert, Middlesex candidature of,
9 and
notes,
11 and
note;
eloquence of,
84; eulogy of Hartington and Granville by,
107;
lecture of, on Ireland,
164 and
note; mentioned,
118 —— W. E.—
Accident to (1881),
77 Acton, estimate of,
l Beaconsfield, eulogy on,
lx,
99-101 Bismarck contrasted with,
35 Bonghi's essays on,
4 and
note[
3]
Burke compared with,
5,
49,
57,
81 Characteristics of—
Eloquence,
xxiii-xxiv,
47 Financial ability,
xxiii-xxiv Idealism,
109 Progress of mind,
48 Self-depreciation,
66,
112 Charities, speech on,
xxiv,
48 Church establishments, progress of thought regarding,
48 and
note,
89 Contact with, desirable for members of the party,
25-26,
61-62 Control of certain men not possible to,
45,
214 Criticism, attitude towards,
vii De Serre compared with,
68 Döllinger, visit to,
li Estimate of characters by, defects in,
45,
57,
109 Estimate of, by posterity foreshadowed,
44-50 Grantully Castle, voyage in,
33 note[
44]
Illness of (1880),
27 and
note[
35]
Inequalitarianism of,
94 Influence of, on the nation,
106 Italian independence, attitude towards,
xxiv-xxv,
lx Lancashire speeches of (1868),
4 and
note[
7]
Land tenure, progress of thought regarding,
48 and
note,
89 Letter of, on choice of a profession,
43 Liberal party—
Cohesion of, dependent on his ascendency,
25,
110,
193 Divergence from,
13,
16,
46,
158 Future of,
107,
109,
113 note Midlothian campaign (1880), personal victory in,
8,
9-10; campaign
of 1884,
193 and
note[
233]
Nonconformist alliance of,
16 O'Donnell affair, the,
21 and
note Personal ascendency of,
8,
9-10,
195 Police protection for,
69 and
note[
83]
Position of (1859),
xxii-xxiii Principle and policy, grasp of,
18,
48 Retirement of, objections to,
10,
106-107,
159,
169,
178,
193,
195,
214; diary extract on,
113 note Socialism, attitude towards,
lxi,
175,
212 Strachey's observation on,
55 Tennyson's attitude towards,
209 and
note[
256]
Vatican decrees, pamphlet on,
l —— Mrs.,
11,
27,
58,
115,
119,
160 —— W. H.,
106 and
note[
140]
Godley, Sir Arthur,
67 and
note[
77]
Goethe,
79,
82 Goldsmid,
11,
61 Goodman, Memoirs of,
129 Goschen, Rt. Hon. G. J., estimate of,
65; financial ability of,
108;
otherwise mentioned,
3,
72,
88,
114 note,
115,
117,
119,
124,
205,
211,
213,
214 Government—
Consent, by, necessity of,
164 Constitutional, maxim of, concerning subordinates,
125 Party, by, law of,
95 Unfitness for, in every class,
93 Grace, three channels of,
144 Granville, Earl, estimate of,
xxi; reception of, in Moscow,
xx-xxi;
Disraeli dines with,
66; motion of, on Beaconsfield,
101; suggested
retirement of,
108; Gladstone discusses retirement with,
113 note;
views on Morier,
195; on Gladstone's election address (1885),
211 and
note[
260]; otherwise mentioned,
12,
18,
26,
29,
36,
39,
103,
104,
106,
196 —— Lady,
61 Green, J. E.,
128-129,
163 —— Mrs. J. R.,
161,
198 —— T. H.,
xli Greenwood, Frederick,
13 Grenville, George,
46,
69,
200 Greville,