W.E.GLADSTONE to DEAN RAMSAY.
Hawarden, May 26, 1872 My dear Friend--I have read with much interest your graceful and kindly memoir of Bishop Terrot, which you were so good as to send me.
He had always appeared to me as a very real and notable, and therefore interesting man, though for some reason not apparent a man _manque_, a man who ought to have been more notable than he was.

I quite understand and follow you in placing him with, or rather in the class of, Whately and Paley, but he fell short of the robust activity of the first, and of that wonderful clearness of the other, which is actual brightness.
Your account of the question of Lordship is to me new and interesting.

I have never called the Scottish Bishops by that title.

I should be content to follow the stream, but then we must deal equally, and there is the case of the Anglo-Roman bishop to meet, especially now that the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill has been repealed; but only on Friday I addressed one of the very best among them "Right Rev.Bishop M----." You will, I am sure, allow me the license of private judgment in the two expositions about the church in p.5.You praise both, but the second the more highly.

To me the first seems excellent, and the second, strange to say, wanting in his usual clearness and consecutiveness.