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... member of the Cheshire Militia, and his wife followed the drum with him to the North. I-le was also (it would appear) a1 Whig of Whigs; his wife's \Vhiggery was temnered by humour and good sense, but was pretty strong, too and she found many a bitter thing ...

HISTORY, ARCHÆOLOGY, AND BIOGRAPHY

... obvious neglect of that statesman's achievements in the reform of the I tariff, that all reforms stopped in 1841 when Ithe-Whigs lost the sngermacy. Alike in his i chapters on British and on American progress, he gives considerable attention to liberalism ...

CREAM OF CURRENT LITERATURE

... oppenents issued a flamingmcartoon- showing him in a barber's .shop, touching up a wig, and underneath the incrip- tion, 'Whigs dressed here. It is. a, very interesting fact that in the same street in Skipton where young Sngden lathered, shaved, and ...

AN OLD HARROVIAN'S MEMORIES

... (London: John Murray.) had led to the abandonment by the old Harrow families of a school no longer so much frequented by the Whig aristocracy, who thronged its ranks after 'the Reforml Bill of 1832, while the governing body had not realized the popular ...

BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED

... have been agained peaceably and gradually, i' if there . rd been more philanthropy among tho clergy, more principle among the Whigs, and more wisdom I armong the Abolitionists. His own position appears to be strongly, but nob not extremely, individualist: ...

THE FITTING OF THE PEATS

... asking his l-eave. Is not this somewhat nkce in a man who by his own account came over to take a King's crown ? ''You little Whig, he cried admiringly. is I knew not that you had been so well trained in your father's opinions. Nay, she answered, ...

Published: Saturday 03 February 1900
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4410 | Page: 20 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

RECENT FICTION

... successive lovers-the treacherous and vindictive Scrope; George Kelly, a non-jnring parson and Jaco- bite conspirator; the Whig Coloael -Montague, and Lord Sydney Beanclerk. The movement of the plot in the early chapters is waver- ing and unsatisfactory ...

NOVELS AND STORIES

... weakness for check- ing the flow of his story by heaving huge blocks of history into it. Pages are filled with the squabbles of Whigs and Tories, and whole chap- ters are devoted to the intrigues of the French Court The Duke of Marlborough figures pro- minently ...

BOOKS OF THE DAY

... Rev. J. it. BACON. Lld TlR ART AND THE COVUiTRY: TUSCAN NOTES. rig By VatssoN LaE. [r. PUBLIC HOUSE3S, r. By Nasa Buros[. ta WHIG IMPERIALISM. ByIoLBON, 1.B BBoL50?f KXNG. he MODERN GERMAN LYRIC POETRY. ;O, By fte COURT DE So0SoS. ] Ve MONASTIC ORDERS UP ...

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... teaching, by the Rev J. H. a! Bacon; The art and the country; Tu'cran, r, 2notes. by Vernon Lee; Poblic-houses, ?? 51 Buxton; Whig Imperialism, by Balton King; 81 Mrodern German lyric poetry, by the Countess hi de Soissons; Monastic orders up to date (the ...

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... Higgins, QC., writes on s the Australian Federation Act; Dr. Sigmund M huenz has an interesting paper on The Next Pope; 'Whig Imperialisma is a chapter of 3 history presented in an admirable way by Bolton King; the Rev. J. MI. Bacon, a student of s ...

HISTORY OF PORTSMOUTH

... ideal; their ideal was walking over or red hot ploughtsharez lie has scrong political views:..- A Radical bE comes to mean - Whig, and then a Roundkead. re and ej ic merns literally rtilla. Household suffrage Was a kind of disease. at one time, in all ...