... dwindled by three times that sufficiently formidable figure. In other words, if the Tory has been chastised with whips, the Whig has been chastised with scorpions, and neither side has much to boast of Coming, as it has done, upon the top of the elections ...

... The quaint old dress, the grand old style, The mots, the racy stories, The wine, the dice, the wit, the bile, The hate of Whigs and Tories, as Frederick Locker sang in his London Lyrics. The St. James's, in Piccadilly, is a diplomatic club for foreign ...

... long ago could be just as modern. Anyhow there is a letter which would suggest as much in Mabell, Countess of Airlie's, In Whig Society.. The letter was written by ill-starred Lady Caroline Lamb, who became Lady Melbourne, and who figures in the many-sided ...

... Grenadier Guards, and M iss Margaret Whigham took plac at Assouan, where they were both members of a party touring Egypt. Miss Whig ham, who is one of last year s debutantes, is the daughter of Mr and Mrs. George Whigham, of Ascot The Earl oj Warwick, who ...

... National Govern ment. THE LATE LORD FITZ- MAURICE The Whig tradition, of which Bowood and Lansdowne House were famous cradles, died hard. Both the late Lord Lansdowne and his brother, Lord Edmond, were Whigs at heart. They were liberal-minded and had the courtesy ...

... have produced a masterly adaptation of the German method to Isuit our national require ments. But Tullochgorum's desire that Whig and Tory a' agree is not yet fulfilled, for Lord Lansdowne's measure, like Mr. Asquith's speech at Manchester on Saturday, ...

... a shell the other day, was more than 300 years old and was in 1800 in the occupation of Charles Western, M.P. for Maldon, a Whig stalwart who knew a lot about agri culture, was known as stiff-rump and died Lord Western of Rivenhall in 1844. He was educated ...

... still play bridge and exchange modest wagers there. In old days, nothing was too trivial for a wager vide the old books. No Whig, of course, would have shown his face there in the days when polities were carried bitterly into home life. Charles 'Fox dis ...

... did a quarter of a century ago Almost equally grotesque is the im passioned defence of the Corsican by our own philosophic Whigs like Lord Rosebery though the funniest thing of all has been the physical imitation of the Emperor by some individuals, even ...

... with which they are almost exclusively concerned compete in point of general interest with the previous volumes. The steady Whig statesman is not so interesting as the friend of Byron: the early Victorian period is not redeemed by Holland House from being ...

... We saw a trained army make its general more powerful than a king and keep even him in awe. It was ground into the minds of Whig and Torv alike that a standing army was a hateful thing, and the feeling remains to this day. Just so when the worthy Labour ...

... expressed, considered politically, it dis plays not only the Tory party in the realm of art, but the Liberal Unionists and the Whigs and although the Socialist school may be sought in vain, the Radicals now and again, if but in very small numbers, make a chance ...