... real and fictitious, belong to the period of the story the reign of William the Third in something more than in name. His Whigs and Jacobites are men of the time, with all the prejudices, political and social, of that troubled- period, and lastly his ...

... complicated campaigns of Marlborough, or Peterborough's eccentric flashes of genius at home the struggles for power between Whig and Tory in Parliament and country, the secret influences at work at the Court, the dominant figures of statesman, wits, and ...

... forgotten. The volume devoted to Lord Beaconsfield is decidedly the most attractive, and we feel that Mr. Punch who, as a mild Whig, rarely altogether approves of his hero's doings, cannot nevertheless help sympathising with his indomitable pluck and fertility ...

... with the three concluding essays on Agricultural and Communal France, and on France in 1870. Mr. Reeve writes from the old Whig stand-point, and his views have naturally been disapproved by those who hold that France, in spite of revolutions and disaster ...