1898. Contents: Parentage and Youth; School Days at Eton; Christchurch College, Oxford; The Oxford Student; Coming to His Opportunity; Lord of the Treasury and Author; A Great Problem in Sight; Gladstone and Sir Robert Peel; The Corn Law Agitation; The Valorous Churchman; Oxford's Representative; the Neapolitan Outrages; Palmerston Overthrown; After the Triumph; The Crimean War; A New Government; The Ionian Islands; Gladstone and Macaulay; Gladstone's Budget of 1860; The Budget of 1861; The American Civil War; The Scholar and Orator; Contesting for Oxford; Leader of the House of Commons; Gladstone and Disraeli; The Derby-Disraeli Government; Disestablishment; Triumphant Liberalism; Complications and Perils; The Alabama Claims; Seeking Rest and Finding None; Gladstone and The Mystery Man; The Knight Errant; The Member from Midlothian; The Irish Problem Again; Gladstone and Bright; Egypt and Defeat; Called Again to Power; Tried and Faithful; The Aged Warrior; The Grand Old Man Again in Power; Gladstone the Man; and At Eventide.