... are remarkable. Seven out of his ten portraits are those of well-known politicians, and six out of the seven are or were Whigs, yet we see a careful attempt to do justice to all of them, and only two, namely Lord Grey and Lord Abinger, .seem to us to ...

... with the so-called discovery of the so-called Popish plot, and then began the period of political and religious agitation when Whig and Tory first took the field. With it began a new period for Dryden, a curious illustration of the way in which each life ...

... sentimental charm about Jacobitism as it lingers in a few old castles, and inspires still the, singers of the old sonogs, Awa', Whigs, awa' !, the Wee bit German lairdie, and so on. Bat it was a very unpleasant reality to those who were called upon to prove ...

... national: the one was exclusive and odious, and the other liberal and cosmopolitan. To cieate a party which should be at once Whig and Tory, national and cosmopolitan, religious and philosophical, feudal and democratic, was, in short, the slight task which ...

... the work remains uncompleted. In the present instalment of it the career of Lord Palmerston is followed to the fall of the Whig Administration in 184L. It comprises therefore only the subordinate portion of his public life But it carries us through the ...

... description. He divides them into Conservatives and Liberals, and subdivides each into Tories and Liberal-Conservatives, and into Whigs and Radicals. Now, if all that is meant by this is that there is a moderate and an extreme section in each party, it is of ...

... were on excellent teims. Indeed, the house in which Mr. Barham spent many years of his life was placed at his disposal by the Whig wit. Barbam seems to have been less happy in impromptu wit, epigram, and repartee than might leave been expected in one whose ...

... volume is taken up with Brougham's early tours in Scandinavia, Holland, Italy, and a mission to Portugal in iSHo, when the Whigs were in power. His journals are written with great vivacity, and show considerable power of description. Many lively sketches ...

... John Bull, we believe, has returned homne under the impression that here was a fresh instance of the ?? spirit of our veteran Whig statesman, who was to be found attacking the most forbidding Pyrenean peaks with the same boldness he would have displayed ...

... ones, with all the spirit which had made him famous in the Speedy and the linpcrievse. His ancestors had suffered both for the Whig and Jacobite causes-for the blue ribbon and for the white rose. His father, the ninth earl, had completed the ruin of the house ...

... attended the first production of Cato, for instance, when the rival parties of the State crowded l)rury Lane, and the Whigs applauded every line in which liberty was men- tioned as a satire on the Tories, and the Tories echoed every clap to show that ...

... of contemporaries, the written statements of Pepvs, Evelyn, Clarendon, and North, the opinion of a critic like Macaulay on a Whig whom he cannot whitewash, are all tossed aside as worthless: ard on what grounds we have searched the book in vain to discover ...