2117 The Life of John Bright, by George Macaulay Trevelyan (read 9 Jan 1988) This is a 1913 book. Bright was born Nov. 16, 1811. He was prominent, with Cobden, in the effort to repeal the Corn Laws and to extend suffrage. He went into a Government with Gladstone in 1869, and died March 27, 1889. This was a pretty good book, though it spent much space giving speeches and letters of Bright. The impressive last paragraph: "And so he lies, as he himself would have liked it, not under Gothic arches hung with conquered flags and echoing back the organ's peal, not among warriors and princes, and the statesmen who played for fame and power, but under the northern sky, in front of the humble houses of peace where he had worshipped as a child; in silence sometimes broken by the sound of workmen's footsteps up the steep flagged street, he dwells among his people." ( )