The index to the thirteen text volumes of The Gladstone Diaries 1825-1896 has three parts.First 'Dramatis Personae', a list of the 20,500 people mentioned by Gladstone in his diaries.Secondly 'Gladstone's Lifetime Reading', a bibliography of the 20,000 books, pamphlets, and articles, whose reading he records in his diaries, with the dates when he read them. This is a bibliography of remarkable cultural interest. It is probably the most ambitious attempt...