The separation of Bright and Gladstone on the question of Irish Home Rule had a certain tragic element of sadness.

When I spoke of this to Mr.
Gladstone, the old statesman of Hawarden tenderly replied: "Whenever I think now of my dear old friend, I always think only of those days when we were in our warmest fellowship" Among the many other recollections of foreign incidents I must mention a very delightful luncheon at Athens with Dr.Schlieman in his superb house which was filled with the trophies of his exploration of the Troad and Mycenae.

I found him a most genial man; and he told me that he had never surrendered his American citizenship, acquired in 1850.

It was very amusing to hear him and his Grecian wife address their children as "Agamemnon" and "Andromache" and I half expected to see Plato drop in for a chat, or Euripides call with an invitation to witness a rehearsal of the "Medea." Athens is to me the most satisfactory of all the restored cities of antiquity, every relic there is so indisputably genuine.

My sunrise view from the Parthenon was a fair match for a midnight view I once had of Olivet and Gethsemane.
I cannot close these recollections of foreign friends without making mention of the late Mr.William Tweedie and his successor the late Mr.
Robert Rae, the efficient Secretaries of the National Temperance League (of which Archbishop Temple has long been the President).