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New Novels

... comprises a very full and vivid picture of society in the mainly Quaker, partly military, city of Philadel1.hia and of its ' Whigs and ' Tories before and during the War of Independence: a striking portrait of Washington, and a brilliant account of his ...

Published: Saturday 19 March 1898
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 774 | Page: 27 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

New Novels

... Revolution remained without reasonable suspicion. Mr. Weyman's plot turns upon a supposed intrigue to entangle the trusted Whig minister with the Jacobite party by employing a wretched creature, who tells the story, and bears sufficient resemblance to ...

Published: Saturday 12 February 1898
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 734 | Page: 24 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

HIGHLANDERS AFTER THE '45.*

... almost srints in comnitrison with those cittte-liftin- Jacobite villaims, the Alacdonlllds, %whose &layniores were red with Whig blood. In his detestation of them, he rojects their claims as Lords of the Isles, to treit, otl the footin of indepmciednt ...

THE NEW PALACE THEATRE, PLYMOUTH

... igh order. She was loudly applauded, and her performance should certainly be a big draw at the Empire this week. -Northern Whig, Tuesday, Aug. 30th, 1898. EmrIaE.-A very hearty welcome was accorded Miss Millie Hvlton at the Empire last evening, where ...

Published: Saturday 03 September 1898
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1322 | Page: 18 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

REVIEWS

... of so many and such varied- scenes of high interest; who was a grand specimen of the best type._ &f, British aristocrat, a Whig but alive to the contemporary world to the last,. a sunny, lively, charming friend, a bright writer; an able determined man ...

REVIEWS

... twenty, and Elizabeth for many years. There, in daily intercourse with Fox, Sheridan, Lord Holland, and all the leaders of the Whigs, of which party Devonshire House was the rendezvous, they had unequalled scope for their acknowledged talents. Gibbon, the ...

MR. JOHN MORLEY AT ARBROATH

... knunw such a man, and, he did not want- (rniewed laughter anf ciieera) -but he meant one whol for this ?? would be netiter Whig nor Tory, but who could simnply expiuin and elucidate from books of travel or dictionairies and encyclopedias the events of ...

THE BRAN-PIE OF CURRENT LITERATURE

... side. In the eighteenth century, therefore, when the Camp- bells, with their wonted instinct for the stronger party, became Whig and espoused the Hanoverian cause, the. majority of the clans were out for Prince Charlie. The devoted. Jacobite gentleman ...

BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

... oMir. T. Dundas Pillane for a timely selection of Forgotten 'l'ruths front the sceechis and writings of tge ereat Jrish Whig, Edmund Birke. The extrtets are made with great jndunment, arid they are pecleorly appropriate to the qiteations of to-day ...

OUR SPIRITUAL GUIDES

... of whom we have descriptions ini the Ohil Testament, would have been kluorn, at once for angels bad they been, possessed of whigs. Again and again they w ero not recognised :e spiritual boings. bit woer thought to be mnen and in support of tois I direct ...

HENRY REEVE'S MEMOIRS*

... sttetunen, es | e aly *laling vwith the Diseegtsrb.tih-nent of the Irish1 Church anld Home Rule. Reeve Waa n 5ti tr.'V ol4 Whig. ast-l hatel both those famowr ka. nfres. There is a plc-muater little note, whica we mtsy quote to-day 'tnoVziCt ant pa.r' ...

LORD SELBORNE'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY.*

... the A Autobiography Lord Seiborne writes some v, twenty rather painful pages about 'Mr. Glad- i. atone. He is the frightened Whig who thiniks 1that the deluge is coining, and that 1 Mr. -d Gladstone will have contributed to it more. than C id any other ...