Identifier: sirbenjaminstone02ston (find matches)
Title: Sir Benjamin Stone's pictures; records of national life and history reproduced from the collection of photographs made by Sir Benjamin Stone, M.P
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Stone, John Benjamin, Sir, 1838-1914 MacDonagh, Michael, 1862-1946
Subjects: Great Britain. Parliament Statesmen
Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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to wish for it is to be what indignant journalists call afaddling hedonist. In 1904 Mr. Gosse, who had been in the senace ofthe Board of Trade, was appointed Librarian of theHouse of Lords. Writing of his own collection ofbooks, he says, There is something awful to me, ofnights and when I am alone, in thinking of all the soulsimprisoned in the ancient books around me. Not one, Isuppose, but was ushered into the world with prideand glee, with a flushed cheek and heightened pulse;not one has enjoyed a career that in all points justifiedthose ample hopes and flattering j:)romises. Some day, perhaps, Mr. Gosse will give us an essayon The Library over tlic Thames; and the thoughtssuggested by its numerous ranks of Hansard, withtheir thousands of sjjee(;hes of forgotten Parliamen-tarians, and the futility of jjrint that is proclaimed bvits shelves upon shelves of Blue Books, which nobodyreads.
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STATUE OF CROMWELL. In the original decoration of the Palace of Westminstermemorials were provided in statuary, fresco, paintedwindow, or stone-carving of all the Eulers of Englandfrom Alfred to Victoria, with one exception. The oneEiiler uncommemorated was Oliver Cromwell. During Mr. Gladstones last Administration it wasproposed that the memory of the Protector should behonom-ed within the precincts of the Palace by a statueerected at the public expense. It was inevitable thatsuch a motion, made with the Mace on the Table—though not exactly the bauble to which Ci-omwellshowed so little respect when he tm-ned the LongParliament out of doors—would be jjassionately resisted.The Royalists and the Nationalists united in vehementopposition to it. Not a penny of the peojjles moneyshould be spent on a memorial to the executioner ofCharles I., said the one Party; nor, said the other, tothe author of the massacres of Drogheda and Wexford.The motion accordingly was withdrawn. But strange, i

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