Gladstone, William Ewart-- Acton, Lord, relations with, 383, 399 _Alabama_ claims, action regarding, 444, 446, 449, 451 American Civil War, attitude towards, 57 career of, 412 characteristics of-- breadth and keenness of interests, 400, 413, 459 caution, 409, 414, 419, 447, 453 complexity of nature, 400, 409-410, 412 conservatism, 401, 439 constructive power, 439-41 conversational powers, 461 courage, 447 and note, 451 note courtesy, 423 and note, 455-456, 461 dignity, 457 emotional excitability, 405, 410-411, 433-34 humour, 460 impulsiveness, 401, 405, 421, 447 independence, 418-19, 450 ingenuity, 404, 416-17, 430-31, 466 insight into character, 453 intensity, 402, 405, 426, 435, 450, 453, 460, 462 loyalty, 455 magnanimity, 457, 477 memory, 404, 424, 459 for faces, 423 open-mindedness, 416, 452, 454 oratory, 411, 426-39, 463 over-subtlety, 407, 432, 448, 452 patriotism, 450-51 pride, 416, 420, 423, 452, 455, 474, 477 religious disposition, 472-75 views, 401, 406-407 reserve: political, 409, 414-15, 419, 452 personal, 424, 475-476 Scottish temperament, 403-405 self-confidence, 224 simplicity, 453, 458, 461, 475 sincerity, 401 temper, 455-56 tranquillity, 462 voice, 430, 436-38 Disraeli and, 11, 33, 35 estimates of, 411, 417, 448 continental, 444 family of, 403 foreign affairs, attitude towards, 443-46, 458 Freeman's appointment by, 263 High Church appointments of, 198 home life of, 462, 474, 477 Home Rule Bill of (1886), 272 Homeric studies and views of, 401, 465-68 hostility to, 304 literary activities of, 401, 458, 462-68 Lowe compared with, 293, 299, 429, 435 Lowe's antagonism to, 295 Lowe in Cabinet of, 299 mistakes of, 449 Northcote and, 212, 216 Oxford training of, 406-408 parliamentary abilities of, 420-21, 424-26 Parnell's resentment against, 239-240, 247 Peel's influence on, 10, 409, 452 poetry, attitude towards, 471 quoted, 56 Reform Bill of, 13, 442 scholarship of, 468 science, attitude towards, 407-408, 470 suffrage qualifications, proposed reduction of, 308 note theological views of, tinging political, 473 otherwise mentioned, 67, 113, 179, 187, 221, 260 Godkin, Edwin Lawrence-- career of, 365-66 courage of, 370-71 geniality of, 376 humour of, 368-73 independence of, 364, 369, 381 influence of, 378-80 sincerity of, 367, 373, 380 style of, 367-68, 373 Tammany, attitude towards, 374 and note views of, 366-67, 370, 374-76