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... unnecessary pain. We should have liked Whig Reviewers, as Painted by Them- selves, in B'lackwood better, but for a certain self-righteousness of tone that pervades the article. See, it seems to say, how these Whig-Radicals of the Edinbiaghz hated each ...

Published: Saturday 15 November 1879
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1212 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LAST NIGHT'S AMUSEMENTS

... standard on the braes o' Mar, which the audience would have liked to have heard again; Signor Ghilberti's singing of Awa', Whigs, awe', a duet on Scottish airs for pianoforte and organ, executed by Mr. W. Carter and Mr. Edwin Bending; land the performance ...

NEW BOOKS

... depicting typical sceneo of English life and character. Lord Vowleigh is the first characterintroducod, a raan who is neither a Whig nor a Tory, but who votes ' fairly straight with his party, anld who keeps sousthinai like open house at ]lowleigh Towera ...

LITERATURE

... will have no difficulty in learning that it has a great deal to do with the mystery which at present surrounds the heroine. Whig Reviewers, as painted by themselves, is a piquant and entertaining notice of the recently published Selections from the ...

Art and Literature

... England. NOVEMBER MAGAZINE LITERATURME HOW TO HMAK AN AFGHAN SAtNT. Btaxkwood's Magrne is strongly political this month. in Whig Reviewers, as painted by Themselves, and The Recess. An American Princess is n review of Mr Didier's book on Madame Bonaparto ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... being a history of Mme. Bonaparte-Patterson, and the other a lively one suggested by Mr. Macvey Napier's Correspondence, Whig Reviewers as Painted by Themselves, in which there is some of the old Christopher North spirit-the prettiest quarrel in the ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... Gardiner, has taken what is certainly the right view of the ridiculous charge of apostasy brought against the great Earl by Whig historians. Even here, however, some inaccuracy may be found. Mr. Gardiner certainly would not endorse the statement that Charles ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... would, without it, be inexplicable. It is his intense -we were almost going to say narrow-Christianity. As long as Liberals or Whigs were considered to be working for the subversion of the Church, as long as Conser- vatives were identified in England and abroad ...