"A Matchless Individuality” 903 We have the memory of a matchless individuality, an oratory which has never been surpassed in our time, never perhaps been equalled in all its forms and varieties, and which, perhaps, will stand unrivalled in the history of eloquence since the great Athenian models existed. We have besides a model, which appeals to all classes and to all shades of opinion, of a life, the purity of which was never questioned, the integrity of which, in all the storms and trials of politics, was never even doubted, which I will not say popularised religion -that would be too audacious an expression-but which certainly advanced the cause of Christianity in this country as much as the sermons of thousands of men. "It is unnecessary for me to add anything to what I have said. Opposite your hall there stands a testimony to his love and regard for Edinburgh in the restoration of the Mercat Cross. I am well aware that in these days testimonials and memorials are a little apt to be vulgarised. We are appealed to by daily posts for testimonials to people of whom we have never heard, and for memorials to people of whom, if we have heard, we have forgotten. But that is no reason for not contributing when there is a solid instance, as on the present occasion. By remembering Mr. Gladstone in a manner worthy of his memory, we should be raising and dignifying all memorials; we should not be associating be associating his memory with VOL. II. 26 those lower and more trivial memorials to which I have alluded. But, in any case, I think, if we do not owe it to Mr. Gladstone, we owe it to ourselves that we in Edinburgh should be foremost in contributing to keep his memory alive among mankind. We in Scotland are inclined to be clannish. We are reproached with our clannishness. We are proud of our men. Our geese are apt to be swans; but, when we have a swan, let us show that we understand it; and I think it would be derogatory to our national character, to our warm appreciation of this great man, who had been bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, if on this occasion Edinburgh does not show itself worthy of its associations with Mr. Gladstone." CHAPTER XXXII ANGLO-AMERICAN AMENITIES-THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING BROTHERHOODADDRESS ΤΟ THE EDINBURGH PHILOSOPHICAL BOOKISH STATESMEN-MR. GLADSTONE'S GREAT INSTITUTION— QUALITIES-A CONTRAST AND AN APPRECIATION-THE SUBLIME SOLACE OF ORD ROSEBERY'S public engagements in L 1898 were numerous and interesting. He presided at a meeting held at the Imperial Institute on July 7, 1898, when a lecture was delivered by Professor Waldstein on "The English-Speaking Brotherhood." The bête noir of the lecturer, who, by the way, is Slade Professor of Fine Art, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, late Director of the American Archæological School, Athens, etc., appears to be the use of the phrase "Anglo-Saxon Alliance" in order to designate the association of international interests between Great Britain and the United States. Lord Rosebery delighted the audience with a most interesting discourse on the subject of AngloAmerican amenities. He said: "I am sure I am only expressing your views when I tender, on your behalf, our thanks to Professor Waldstein for the extremely interesting address he has delivered to us this afternoon. He has set forth with a fulness and eloquence and a learning which leaves nothing to be desired his views on a question which is, perhaps, of the most vital interest to the English-speaking brotherhood -to use his own expression-of any that can lie before them. And although I may not agree in detail with all his views and with all that he has laid down, and it, perhaps, would be impossible for any two human beings to agree to so many propositions as he has laid down in the course of his speech, I think we may come to the general conclusion with him that under whatever name we may choose to call it, or whatever form it may assume, the good understanding-the more cordial the better-between the (I hardly know what to call it, for I may not use the word Anglo-Saxon) the British and American races-is one fraught with benefit to the best destinies of mankind. But I must warn you against a pitfall that lurks in the expression. It is this that, putting the conscientious Russian, whom the Professor summoned to give testimony, aside, I am afraid all the other great nations of the world are under the same impression as to the spread of their power and their empire. I doubt if the Germans or the French, for example, and I make bold to say even the Russians, though they have been quoted against the argument by the lecturer, would |