GOSSIP ABOUT GLADSTONE.
Mr Gladstone is an ardent lover of books, and not only keeps pace with the literature of the period but finds time even during the period of cabinet councils to frequent the little old secondhand book shops in London. Not long ago he was discovered in a shop where he had been a customer for fifteen years. Presently a crowd gathered at the windowlcss front, staring at the Prime Minister of England peering round the walls, and from time to time burying his head in the leaves of a dirty book. He paid no attention to the throng Avhich completely blocked up the narrow thoroughfare. The bookseller at last tempted him into an upper room by the promise of a fresh collection of books, and thus he was withdrawn from the public gaze. Among the seoond-hand books on sale he found a copy of that somewhat sloppy “ Life’’ of himself which Cassell recently published, and this he bought. He also selected one or two odd copies of Lord Beaconfleld’s novels, which he could scarcely be going to read for the first time.
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Patea Mail, 28 April 1881, Page 4
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