... coming in for some vigorous vitu peration. The book teems with stinging sarcasms. Take the words of Sir Everard Digby, the great Whig lawyer, to the protege he is plotting to betray and throw aside, Consider that by this arrangement you escape the discredit ...

... really to consider either of them as thinker or as artist entitled to rank with the greatest names of the world In Liberals and Whigs Mr. George Brodrick utters an energetic protest against that dissolution of partnership between the two sections of the party ...

... a great man in the world of London. A leader of fashion amongst the beaux, an oracle at the St. James's and the Smyrna, the Whig coffee houses, a star at Ranelagh and the New Spring Gardens, an authority at Hrury Lane and the little theatre in the Haymarket ...