The Life and Public Services of the Right Honorable William Ewart Gladstone, Four Times Prime Minister of England

"The Grand Old Man" or, The Life and Public Services of The Right Honorable William Ewart Gladstone, Four Times Prime Minister of England, by Richard B. Cook. 1898; Publisher's Union. The book is illustrated throughout.

William Ewart Gladstone (29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British Liberal and earlier conservative politician. In a career lasting over sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four separate times (1868–74, 1880–85, February–July 1886 and 1892–94), more than any other person, and served as Chancellor of the Exchequer four times. Gladstone was also Britain's oldest Prime Minister; he resigned for the final time when he was 84 years old.
Gladstone is famous for his oratory, his religiosity, his liberalism, his rivalry with the Conservative Leader Benjamin Disraeli, and for his poor relations with Queen Victoria, who once complained, "He always addresses me as if I were a public meeting."
Gladstone was known affectionately by his supporters as "The People's William" or the "G.O.M." ("Grand Old Man," or, according to Disraeli, "God's Only Mistake"). Gladstone is consistently ranked as one of Britain's greatest Prime Ministers.

The chapters are as follows:
I. Ancestry and Birth
II. At Eton and Oxford
III. Early Parliamentary Experiences
IV. Book on Church and State
V. Travels and Marriage
VI. Enters the Cabinet
VII. Member for Oxford
VIII. The Neapolitan Prisons
IX. The First Budget
X. The Crimean War
XI. In Opposition to the Government
XII. Homeric Studies
XIII. Great Budgets
XIV. Liberal Reformer and Prime Minister
XV. The Golden Age of Liberalism
XVI. The Eastern Question
XVII. Midlothian and the Second Premiership
XVIII. Third Administration and Home Rule
XIX. Prime Minister the Fourth Time
XX. In Private Life
XXI. Closing Scenes

Condition:
Clean covers and spine; the length of the right side of the spine where it meets the front cover is cracked. Tight binding. No splits. No loose pages. The pages are in great condition with no notable condition flaws...the interior of the book nearly appears unread.