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Beacon Lights of History, Volume 10

Volume 10 — Introductory material

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THE ENFRANCHISEMENT OF THE PEOPLE.

Precocity of Gladstone.

Life at Oxford.

Enters Parliament.

Negro Emancipation.

Under-Secretary for the Colonies.

Ultra-Conservative principles.

His eloquence as member of Parliament.

His marriage.

Essay on Church and State.

Parliamentary leader.

Represents Oxford.

Letter on the Government of Naples.

Benjamin Disraeli.

Gladstone Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Opposes the Crimean War.

Great abilities as finance minister.

Conversion to Free Trade.

"Studies on Homer".

His mistake about the American War.

Defeat at Oxford.

Irish Questions.

Rivalry between Gladstone and Disraeli.

Gladstone, Prime Minister.

His great popularity.

Disestablishment of Irish Church.

Irish Land Bill.

Radical army changes.

Settlement of the Alabama claims.

Irish University Bill.

Fall of Gladstone's Ministry.

Influence of Gladstone in retirement.

Disraeli as Prime Minister.

Return of Gladstone to power.

His second administration.

Parliamentary defeat of Gladstone.

The Irish Question.

Death.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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Bismarck at Versailles

After the painting by Carl Wagner

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William IV., King of England

After the painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence

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Sir Robert Peel

From the engraving by Sartain

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Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

From a photograph

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Camillo Benso di Cavour

From a photograph

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Assassination of the Emperor Paul I. of Russia

After the painting by H. Merté

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Czar Nicholas I.

After the painting by Horace Vernet

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Capture of Napoleon III. at Boulogne

After the painting by R. Gutschmidt

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Louis Napoleon III.

From a photograph

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Bismarck

After the painting by Franz von Lenbach

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Count Von Moltke

From a photograph from life

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Proclamation of King William of Prussia as Emperor of Germany, at Versailles

After the painting by Anton von Werner

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William Ewart Gladstone

After a photograph from life

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