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both in one... ße has brought comething of the glamour and
briChtnoso of the heroic ages into the dull roalitieo of
these prosaic times. "
(1)
Dr. Birkbeck Uiix2 wrotot
"Where could the like of Gordon be found, - whore in the
vagen of history
..
or romance I In Spencer's "Faerio Ctteen",
in Cromwell''s "Letters", in George 1'ox's "Journal"
g in
Dunyanfs "Pilgrim's rro ceo&', in "Robinson Cruooo" in the
story of the Icraelitao, in the Gospel story# he `nay be
found. "
(2)
Cordon, as the flow of biographies jrovod,
had found a place among national heroes.
There wac a Gordon ßirrthd y fork, in the form of a
diary, with an extract from Gordon'z3 writings under each
date, and a collection of Gordon sonra and n nnotn, written
1984+-5, and suitably entitled, "A Cry of Anguioh", "Too late"
"The noblest end" and finally "To Gordon in heaven. " (3)
(1) Eva Hope, Or oit, p. 436. Thin can be compared with W. T.
Stead's comments on the Jameson Raids see 22vinw of
Rev,, iewn, February 1896, "it transporto us at 1 iizabothan days when such
a bound to the
"daring deeds" of high enterprise,
were regarded
time. "
with more, favour than in our more tranquil
(2) Ouotod in Annie Bosant, Op cite Pr-a- 3-4.
(3) J. itutfier Gordon non n and sonn+ is
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