Excerpt from Personal Forces of the PeriodThe following sketches are of course intentionally confined to persons now living. They cannot therefore exhaust all the personal forces of the period, seeing that many of these continue to be operative after the individuals in which they were embodied have passed away.For the reason just stated, though the book was still being written while Mr. Gladstone yet breathed, the anticipated issue of his illness rendered it more appropriate to the scheme of the little volume to recognize his surviving in¿uence on all departments of public life in an estimate of more than one among his followers and pupils, e. 9. Lord Welby and Sir William Harcourt.Sir Edward burne-j ones cannot see the words about himself which it was hoped might meet his eye. His lamented death occurred only after the book had been printed. The remarks under his name deal with other artists than himself as in¿uenced by him, they may.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.