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THE LIFE OF LORD BROUGHAM.*

... champion, their gratitude did not stop there. At the general election of 1812 he was invited to stand for Liverpool; and the Whig party, wanting to dish Canning, as he said,, put up two candidates, and thus lost both seats. Brougham remainedc out of ...

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LORD BROUGHAM.*

... 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 ...

NEW NOVELS

... come home to Miss Turner and I, The good Tryon flumped out L of the room, Charles II. and Cromwell-is a biter pill for a Whig,-.these are but a few of the grammatical eccentricities to be found in Hetty. We would recommend Mr. Kingsley a 1primer ...

PAU AND THE PYRENEES.*

... 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 ...

MR. GLADSTONE'S TRAGEDIAN

... 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 ...

THE FIRST LORD SHAFTESBURY.*

... 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 ...

THE READER

... the Bishop of Exeter as the obscene renegade Phillpotts, and Queen Adelaide as a nasty German frow. Mr. Molesworth is a Whig, and makes no secret of it; but he does his best to write with impartiality, and we think his statements may generally be accepted ...

Published: Saturday 25 November 1871
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2026 | Page: 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THOMAS INGOLDSBY.*

... 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 ...

LITERARY MISCELLANEA

... ia town. The political clubs for Tories and Conservatives are Whito's the Carltb, Junior CarIten, and the Conservative; for Whigs and Badicals, Brooks's and the Reform. The pr &eaIonal clubs are the United Service, Junior United Sorvice, Army and -Xavy ...

THE MAGAZINES FOR JULY

... possession of the land. If in his Reform Bill Mr. Disraeli had boldly insisted on manhood suffrage, he might have dished the Whigs most thoroughly. Dr. Sandwith is very severe on Earl Russell for his strictures on the doings of the Commune. He compares ...

LITERARY

... course taken by England. Before the close of 1807 the Whigs were succeeded by a Tory Government, which about the end of that year issued other Orders in Council every whit as objectionable as the Whig Order of January. * *h * * * * The Orders, coupled with ...

LORD DUNDONALD.*

... 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 ...