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LITERARY NOTICES

... The paper, however, on the Scottish Jacobites and their poetry contains some highly-absurd state- ments, such as that the Whigs in the reigns of the first and second Georges were paid for their poems by the Government, while we could well have spared ...

DOROTHY FORSTER

... have in my Lord a pillar of strength. He will be to the loyal gentlemen of the North as much as the Duketof Argyll to the Whigs of Scotland. I have it on the best authority that, although brought up in France, he is an Englishman ; though a Catholic, ...

Published: Saturday 16 February 1884
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 6779 | Page: 23 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE FEBRUARY REVIEWS

... predicts that the abolition of the Hou;se of Lords would enormously strengthen Conservatism by weakening the forces which keep Whig peers from joining the Tory ranks, and so precipitate a life-and-death struggle between predatory Radicalism strugglinig for ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... remind no forcibly send painfully that although the Tory leader, Sir R. Peel, once do. scribeed it us a war impost, neither Whig nor Conservative have accepted the tax as snob. '.There aerg some papers on Thbs Representation of the People, and other ...

LITERATURE

... Aiivd his character Jor shrewdness. Il his opinions on the American war, and ia most cases where his enthusiasm for the old Whigs did not lead him astray, XWaloole was Oi uttd critic ot Eanglish polities; but it is in his capacity as a cmronicler of manners ...

Reviews

... station, ce much less a strategical position, anywhere in these e waters. Mr. Labouchere, under the title of R Ifadicals beand Whigs, essays an answer to Mr. Marriott's to pamphlet, unfolding an extremist progriamme which would surprise us if we were not ...