Melpomene mb-code LW001710 Mr Gladstone announced his withdrawal

Mr Gladstone announced his withdrawal from the leadership of the Liberal Party

It was to be followed before the end of the year by a strike amongst the Metropolitan police and the capital's gas-workers

in a bath chair

grasping a branch in leaf with fore-claws and tail

View of St Paul's School

Melpomene mb-code LW001710 Mr Gladstone announced his withdrawal'Melpomene', 1784. Melpomene, meaning to sing or the one that is melodious, was the Muse of tragedy in Greek mythology. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905).