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CURRENT LITERATURE

... appointed a r canon of St. Paul's, he expressed himself doubtful I %s to the result of associating on familiar terms I with a Whig clergyman. Another instance of this E party spirit is still more curious. Referring to Oliver Twist, which was then being ...

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

... magazines or reviews, of which 338 appear monthly, and 76 quarterly. We notice that in it the ?? is described as an advocate of Whig principles. That statement we beg to contradict. Valentines are hardly to be classed with books; and those which Mr Rimmel ...

LITERATURE

... as he asserts, furnish in efflciest and numerous militia reserve. We Ihave also received:- eA Parallel Case By a Penitent Whig.-J. Davey and Sons. 'A Treatise on theleesorrces of Iowa.'-Mill and Co. The Diplomatic Service. By G. R. Watson.-J. Cam- ...

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 ...

LITERARY

... folly, and attempting to perform his duty as a biographer by simply making the best of each hero in turn. Lord Macaulay's Whig bias and Lord Stanhope's Tory bias are both better than that. It is Mr Earle's misfortune that he has to tell in brief what ...

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... inrcenient: and Germany may one day be both united and free. It is refreshing to meet with such honest Republican- ism in the old Whig organ; though that pleasure is soon alloyed by reading the rampant Toryism of its later article on Irish Federalism. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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... sisters. His metaphors were some- what more chastened, and his opinion of Dryden was considerably altered, when he wrote his Whig ' History of England;' but the tirade on Shaftesbury had been made the gem of the essay, and he would not have chosen to contradict ...

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 ...