The ninth volume of this major scholarly achievement covers some of the most dramatic years of Gladstone's eventful life: his political retirement, his return to lead the Bulgarian and Midlothian Campaigns against Disraeli's government, his recapture of power in 1880, and the crisis-ridden
early months of his second government. Gladstone's daily diary, his personal correspondence, and the Cabinet Minutes, here published for the first time, offer...