... us. Macaulay whipped up a little coterie of enthusiasts, and together they packed a stage-coach, inside and out, with young Whig Masters of Arts from the Inns of Court, and sailed gaily down to Cambridge. They bowled up King's Parade just in time to turn ...

... Peer a dis tinctly piquant combination. F. C. G. will receive warm congratulations on his knight hood, and that both from Whigs and Tories, for his pencil is ever free from the gall of bitter ness. The fact that an M.D. becomes a P.C. should gratify^ ...

... Automobile Club on Thursday, the 7th inst. Mr. S. F. Edge was in the position of that celebrated Government who caught the Whigs bathing and ran away with their clothes, for of a surety, compared with that consummate tactician, the four-cylinder enthusiasts ...

... best for his books, which, brilliant as they are, are yet inferior to his conversa tion. A Londoner of Londoners and a Whig of the Whigs, Mr. Russell is, of course, a scion of the ducal house of Bedford. The days are gone by when he held office in every ...

... AMERICA? THE WORLD-FAMOUS GIANT'S CAUSEWAY, WHICH, IT IS SAID, IS TO BE REMOVED TO THE UNITED STATES. The Belfast Northern Whig gives currency to an extraordinary story that the Giant's Causeway, or at least a part of it, is to be shipped to the United ...

... the field and capturing each other's treasured guests, just as the Tories used to pass Reform measures in order to dish the Whigs. This may be malicious gossip, but the fact remains that the prudent party- giver has already begun to exercise her smile ...

... old Holland House you can see through the gates if you walk up Holland Lane from Kensington High Street was the centre of the Whig party in the early days of the nineteenth century, and generally entertained the wit and talents of London. She herself is ...

... hopes the Prime Minister has felt and flourished upon the breezes of North Berwick, now en joyed vicariously by his wife. A Whig statesman of an other generation, Lord Holland, experienced a rather reversed order of things. He was expected by her Lady ...

... Coke in his youth was the lover, or at least the emphatic admirer, of the wife of Charles Edward, inaccurately known in our Whig-written histories as the Young Pretender. That must indeed have been an odd reflection for Lord Leicester, that his own father ...

... month follows hard on the entertainment given by her brother in an exactly opposite political interest. The Guests, whether Whig or Tory and it is not always easy to keep track of the interest they favour make admirable hosts and hostesses. But nevertheless ...

... peritonitis. In the case of Charles, apoplexy and fever were rather vaguely and hedgingly alleged by the physicians, and the Whigs said later that he had been poisoned by James not that they believed the quite preposterous lie, but because they hoped it ...

... are liberally decorated with Unionist literature. A radical change has come since the days when the House was conservatively Whig, and the protection from free trade which the Stock Exchange afforded its own members last year has notoryously given more ...