works, there seem to me to have been two passions in his life-one for Scotland, and in Scotland for Edinburgh, and one for the sea. It seems to me that, if some memorial could be raised which should appeal to his passion both for Edinburgh and for the sea, we should have done the best thing in carrying out what might have been his wishes in such a connection. But whether that be so or not, of one thing I am certain-that none of us here, if I may judge from the crowding of this hall and the attitude of this audience, are willing that the time shall pass without some adequate memorial being raised. That is, after all, the materially important point for which we are met-that we should not go down to posterity as a generation that was unaware of the treasure in our midst; and I trust that before long it will be our happiness in Edinburgh to see some memorial of Robert Louis Stevenson which shall add to the historical interest of our city, and to the many shrines of learning and of genius by which it is adorned. The first of these Appreciations of Mr. Gladstone was delivered in the House of Lords on May 20th, 1898— the day after his death. Lord Salisbury on that occasion proposed an Address to the Queen asking that Mr. Gladstone should be accorded a public funeral, with a public monument; and the subsequent speakers in support of this motion were Lord Kimberley, the Duke of Devonshire, and Lord Rosebery—in the order named. Mr. Gladstone was buried in Westminster Abbey on May 28th, and it is there that the monument will eventually be erected. The second Appreciation was delivered at Edinburgh on November 24th, 1898, at a meeting held in support of the National Memorial to Mr. Gladstone. As a part of that Memorial a statue is to be erected in Edinburgh. Lord Rosebery has since been appointed a member of a committee of three with whom it rests to choose the sculptor and to select the site. GLADSTONE I MY LORDS, there would at first sight appear little left to be said after what has been so eloquently and feelingly put from both sides of the House; but, as Mr. Gladstone's last successor in office, and as one who was associated with him in many of the most critical episodes of the last twenty years of his life, your lordships will perhaps bear with me for a moment while I say what little I can say on such a subject and on such an occasion. My lords, it has been said by the Prime Minister, and I think truly, that the time has not yet come to fix with any approach to accuracy the place that Mr. Gladstone will fill in history. We are too near him to do more than note the vast space that he filled in the world, the great influence that he exercised, his constant contact with all the great movements of his time. But the sense of proportion must necessarily be absent, and it must be left for a later time, and even perhaps for a later generation, accurately to appraise and appreciate that relation. My lords, the same may also be said of his intellect and of his character. They are at any rate too vast a subject to be treated on such an occasion as this. But I may at least cite the words-which I shall never forgetwhich were used by the noble marquis (Lord Salisbury) when Mr. Gladstone resigned the office of Prime Minister, that his was "the most brilliant intellect that had been applied to the service of the State since Parliamentary government began." That seems to me an adequate and a noble appreciation; but there is also this pitiful side, incident to all mortality, but which strikes one more strongly with regard to Mr. Gladstone than with regard to any one else, and it is this-that intellect, mighty by nature, was fashioned and prepared by the labour of every day and |