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MINOR BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... titles thrown in frntn thime to time, suChI as Viscount Blazonlberie, t ?? &c. Pulshing, intrinuinig, clever, this typical Whig of the time thoroughly enjoyed 9 life, and survivcd till 1724, when he dlied of a fever in his 84th year. WVe welcome Miss ...

LITERARY EDINBURGH TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO

... was still regarded as one of the fine arts. Advocates, merchants, Lords of Session- most of them belonging to the dominant Whig cliques of the time-were in the habit of dining together at various houses and corns- cating afterwards. When such a man ...

LITERATURE

... author has set himself the task of an, showing hrow a lad, born somewhere in the se thirties of the present century, heir to a Whig we baronet to whom Anglican and Constitutional w1 principles are as the breath of life, may be led thi by his introduction ...

CENTENARY OF GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY

... (Renewed laughtar.) Hle reme.-uhered lung ago that Tuilochgorau c was prescribed as a oure for the bitterness between t Whig and Tory, and his brother Norosan named e curlimig for the same thing. It might be scorth n-bile to trv the cure of such a ...

LITERATURE

... he turned aConservative,(I because his father had broken from the Whigs ti and had become the Conservative leader, but it l is hard to say that he was ever anychin else tC than a Whig whatever party name he bore (and l he bore them all in turn, save ...

LITERATURE

... e-ot~ioineof CanadaeandflsscaL ByWN. DL Tomrqn, 03 .I Alt= S Cs, tLimitedi. Xll these thousand pages. For the illustration wf Whig party politics under Walpole and the ePelharns, ho. ever, Mr M;Cullagh Torrens has drawn largely from manuscript sources, and ...

LITERATURE

... novel. His Irishiumo. are of all sorts- vivacious, melancholy, jolly, and quarrelsome. The period of the story is that when the Whig Liberalism of Ireland was almost dying out, and the Home Rule party had scarcely attained the courage of their opinions. Where ...

THE OLD GLASGOW EXHIBITION

... of the Fe 0e' iestpromoters of stealli naviainontet ligb seas ;Aloxaulder OGal ad, of Shicidhall, oh ,a leader or tlhe old Wh'igs, a wcarin friend to the lai educational andl clinitahic' instienerons of the ho I city, and uric of the founders of the Royal ...

LITERATURE

... read that masterly work will refuse to recog- I nise the claim which he sets up for it of being, t in its freedom from either Whig or Tory sym- / pathies, one tc the most unbissed records of ° that momentous period. In respect.of literary ,~form and excellence- ...

LITERATURE

... is re- sponsible for the oppressionc of Ireland, the responsibilty, when we go to the romt of things, rests mainly with the Whig or Liberal party. In another he indicates as one of the faults of Grattan's Parliament the fact that that body, so much lauded ...