... agreeable tipple would interest and surprise George IV., who won the battle of Waterloo on it, or thought he did. Official or Whig English history is such a mass of technicoloured folklore that we never understand why the historians dis miss George- IV. ...

... innocent, which can't be said for everything dons do in their spare time, such as intriguing, knifing each other, writing Whig history, secret drinking, and so forth. Naturally this observation doesn't apply to the Public Orator or his deputy, who has ...

... travesties with grave verve and soundness the other day. Our own feeling is that, even if a lot of our official history is Whig folklore, that 's no reason why the film boys should make it twice as cockeyed by introducing fluffy blondes, spicing it up ...

... as a Jacobite rebel after the '15, Wogan escaped from Newgate to be sent to Silesia by James III the Old Pretender to you Whigs) to sue in James's behalf for the hand of lovely Princess Clementina Sobieski. To checkmate this the Emperor placed Clemen ...

... cultivation at all he knows how much of the history (for example) he has to read over again is objective truth, and how much of it Whig flubdub. He can pat or stroke tobacconists' blonde daughters, according to academic custom, without causing his kind relations ...

... actors in the House of Commons, although there are one or two who have been previously on the stage. A hundred years ago a Whig statesman, afterwards Prime Minister, refused to join Canning's Government 011 the ground that he regarded the son of an actress ...

... ite ensemble, when sell ing programmes at the Vacani matinee. This was just be fore the second dance which Mrs. George Hay Whig- ham has given for her daughter, the lovely party at Queen's Hill, Ascot. The specially built- out marquee ball room was gay ...

... and Lord and Lady Allendale's big recep tion in the evening. This took place at 144, Picca dilly, the fine mansion where Whigs have gathered to gether for many years, for, of course, the Dowager Lady Allendale was one of the great Liberal hostesses of ...

... with all the largenes- and confidence of that day. A hundred ears ago the Whitbreads were as famoi for their devotion to the Whig party for their beer, and from father to son hey have assumed the burdens and res] nsi- bilities of great landowners. Nor i ...

... scoundrels that ever existed. To Macaulav he is a hero with a little tin halo. The Doctor was a Tory. Macaulav was a bitter Whig. Macaulav wrote a llistorv of England, and Johnson did not, and that is how history gets itself written. Apropos William of ...

... for a mere bun these days O'IIIIIHI 1 1 11 1 iii wi 1 1 1 1 1| fn rinuiwe fj'itiKHun- The Ravages of Time Continued -popular Whig history, seemed to be intoxi cating the citizenry slightly more than the sentimental, which charms us more and you That habit ...

... there was no shortage of food. The break with France, for ever the source of fashions, left fashionable England a little dull. Whig elegants went dashing over to Paris, as soon as the Peace of Amiens was declared, to admire the Empire modes which, in their ...