... all the world knows, Mr. Russell went from Harrow to Oxford, and served under Mr. Gladstone. He belongs to one of the great Whig families, is a clubbable man, m Dr. Johnson s sense of the word, and is an ardent worker in the cause of the Church of England ...

... will be The Life of Sir Charles Dilke, by Miss Gertrude Tuckwell. We are also to have in the region of politics Disraeli on Whigs and Whiggism, which will be a collection of the lesser-known writings of Lord Beaconsfield, such as The Runnymede Letters, ...

... been able to do. He had his limita tions undoubtedly. He wrote, someone said, to prove that Providence was on the side of the Whigs. Yet what a thrilling narrative it is. Charles II. and his brother James, William III. and his ministers all are presented ...

... to understand what those now nearly extinct beings, the old-fashioned High-and- 4 Dry Church dignitary and the old-fashioned Whig of the middle of the last century, were really like. J The same volume contains a quite worthless article on Emily Bronte by ...

... Blenheim they said that the enemy's losses meant no mora to Louis than a bucket of water out of a nver. The Duchess exuded Whig- gery, and was always aggressively active. Marl borough loved her but his friends were among the Tories. Mr. Thomas neatly ...

... Blenheim they said that the enemy's losses meant no mora to Louis than a bucket of water out of a nver. The Duchess exuded Whig- gery, and was always aggressively active. Marl borough loved her but his friends were among the Tories. Mr. Thomas neatly ...

... with a true instinct, felt that George III. through his servile parlia ment was attempting to recover from the Whigs the power the Whigs had wrested from the Stuarts, and to govern as well as reign as Bolinbroke's Patriotic King. Wilkes that devil, ...

... 1 Have Painted. By J. McLure Hamilton With a Foreword by Mrs. Drew With Forty-eight Portraits 30s net. T Fisher Unwin.) In Whig Society. 1775-1818. Compiled from the Hitherto Unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth. Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb ...

... that he can do better work than Heartbeat. J t is interesting to consider that while for fifty years of Victoria's reign the Whigs or the Liberals what are considered the progressive forces had all the finest writers in our maga zines and newspapers, or ...

... our historians have been partisans. Macauliy, it was said, wrote his history to prove that Providence was on the side of the Whigs. Froude certainly wrote his to prove that force was the only remedy for social disorder. Some historians have been writing ...

... do. It interested me in the family of Fox, and I have collected and read every book upon the subject. I have Memoirs of the Whig Party, by Henry Richard Lord Holland, edited by his son, Henry Edward (1852-54), who also earlier edited his father's Foreign ...

... hugely, perhaps as a contrast to their own diffuseness. But it is as a politician that Raleigh interests me. He thought he was a Whig never a Liberal. To-day you cannot, if you are an outsider, find the differ ence between a Liberal and a Conservative. Raleigh ...