BOOK IV
Reading edition
BOOK IV
(1853-1859)
I. THE COALITION 443
II. THE TRIUMPH OF 1853 457
III. THE CRIMEAN WAR 476
IV. OXFORD REFORM—OPEN CIVIL SERVICE 496
V. WAR FINANCE—TAX OR LOAN 513
VI. CRISIS OF 1855 AND BREAK-UP OF THE PEELITES 521
VII. POLITICAL ISOLATION 544
VIII. GENERAL ELECTION—NEW MARRIAGE LAW 558
IX. THE SECOND DERBY GOVERNMENT 574
X. THE IONIAN ISLANDS 594
XI. JUNCTION WITH THE LIBERALS 621
APPENDIX 635
CHRONOLOGY 654
ILLUSTRATIONS
Sir John Gladstone Frontispiece
From a painting by William Bradley
William Ewart Gladstone to face page 86
From a painting by William Bradley
Catherine Gladstone to face page 223
From a painting
Hawarden Castle to face page 337