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...Viscount Morley of Blackburn, better known as John Morley, the philosopher-statesman friend of Gladstone, died last week at the age of 84 from heart failure...
...Morley's chief fame rests on a literary basis. Educated at Cheltenham College and Lincoln College, Oxford, he became a professed Liberal in politics, a die-hard Conservative in his writings. His volumes on Voltaire and Rousseau are typical examples of this literary conservatism. In these books he is nothing if not thorough, he scrupulously avoids equivocation but he deals only in the straight and narrow paths of inquiry. Probably his chef d'oeuvre is the remarkable biography of Gladstone, Life of Gladstone...
...earlier years when he opposed the eight-hour day for labor-an attitude which cost him his seat in Parliament for Newcastle. From 1896 to 1908 he represented Montrose Burghs. Then came the triumph of his conservative soul: he was elevated to the Peerage as Viscount Morley of Blackburn. Other Liberals have become Peers, but Lord Morley had been previously opposed to the power of the Lords; it was an institution which should be " mended or ended." He continued, however, to support the Veto Bill, which finally curbed the power of the Lords...
Died. Viscount Morley, British author-statesman. (See page...
...degree, Harry Lauder without kilts." Elinor Wylie remarks of George Eliot: "her dark brown binding got into her style." H. L. Mencken, voting for Eden Phillpotts, says candidly: "Phillpotts seems to me . . . the worst novelist now in practice in England; certainly no small eminence," while Christopher Morley explains his only putting down nine items instead of ten thus : " I thought it best to leave one place open in case Burton Rascoe (a fellow-nominator) should publish a book...