The fervour is all there, the unalterable conviction, the lofty purpose.
There is reason for the warm note of welcome which comes from the Irish benches; for this man--perhaps disappointed--perchance not too well used--stands up to defend his principles with the same utter forgetfulness of self which belongs only to the finest and the truest natures.
[Sidenote: Commercial culture.] Mr.Chamberlain has not a wide range of ideas, and his small stock has not been increased by anything like extensive reading.

The House was relieved to find after his return to Westminster on the 10th of April that he had just begun to read Tennyson.

It is always easy to know when Mr.Chamberlain is making the acquaintance of an author for the first time.

Strictly business-like in even his reading, he apparently first thinks of reading a book when he has somewhere seen a quotation from it which might be worked into a speech; the next and almost immediate process is to transfer it to one of his speeches.

This is one of the many differences between him and the exhaustless brain and universal reading of Mr.Gladstone.It was, therefore, not much of a surprise to those who had watched Mr.Chamberlain for years, to see that he was making a very bad and poor speech on the second reading of the Home Rule Bill--a speech certainly far inferior to that which he had delivered on the first reading.