... and fine horses, but not for riding-I love to go fast-I would cut the air. Grattan's talk was more fairly to be represented in a note-book than that of Fox. Fox, said Grattan, had no curiosa felicitas in expression, though much of it in his arrangement ...

... G. J. King, Captain Lowther, Mr. Pugh, Sir M. W. Ridley, Lord H1. Thyne, and Col. Tottenham. Sir Brook Bridges, Sir John Walsh, Sir John Trollope, and Lord Cran- borne, who then voted, are now peers. Mr Miles Gaskell, a moderate Conservative, has voted ...

... consequence of the miserable Harney affair, Mr Grattan fairly warned his countrymen that *war was immi- nent. The matter was, however, patched up; but the heart-burning did not cease. The whole tendency of Mr Grattan's elaborate explanations is to make it appear ...

... Desmond and O'Neil had passed. The age of Grattan and of O'Connell had begun. Memoirs of Grattan and O'Connell fill the greater part of Mr Lecky's volume, though he connects Swift's genera- tion with Grattan's by a short account of the work of Henry ...

... which early showed itself between Lords Cardigan and Lucan, declaring the latter, however, to be the superior officer, and attributing entirely to his caution the fact that the Light Brigade was not, by Lord Cardigan's fool-hardiness, swallowed up at the ...

... who said of his fighting wife, It pleases her, and it don't hurt me, John Bull rather enjoys the fun. He can afford to be abused; whatever he is, he has succeeded. But even John Bull prefers abusing himself. Socratic elpdtvewa is a much easier virtue ...

... nt in opinion between them, Catholic emancipation. For the Earl of Charlemont, who had previously given the same seat to Grattan, though a Liberal and patriotic Icishman and, like Plunket, strongly against the 'Union, had a strong prejudice against granting ...

... nt to me. Brave old gentleman-we hope not. Of that same agricultural protection, by the way, Sir Robert can say, as Grattan said of Irish liberty, that he stood by its cradle and followed its hearse-with the not unimportant difference that the funeral ...

... LITERA R Y. - o MR MOTLEY'S JOHbN OF BARNEVELD. The Lffe and Death of John of Barneveld. By John Lothrop Motley. In Two Volumes. London: John Murray. 1874. In these volumes Mr Motley takes up the thread of his- tory where he left it in his 'United Netherlands ...

... of the American revolt, when Grattan carried his famous resolutions in favour of Irish indepen- dence. The question after this time was frequently debated in the English Parliament, when the splendid eloquence of Grattan always secured a hearing for his ...

... throughout, the want of strength and steadfastness of purpose which he considers to have been manifested by the ministry. Sir John Burgoyne's opinion of the inability of the Turks to defend the Danube or even the line of the Balkan against Russia, caused ...

... supercilious droop of the mouth, so characteristic of John Bright, even in his anti-corn-law days ; and W. T. Roden has imparted to the elongated visage of that intellectual giant of the Church, the Very Rev. John Henry Newman, .GD., that smiling lugubriousness ...