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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 ...

Advertisements & Notices

... ng thts result of taking advantage of market fluctuations.-DUNDEE COURIER. Written with an expert knolvledve.'-NORTHERN WHIG. To be obtained of all Booksellers, from the Publisher, EFFINGHAM WILSON, Royal Echange. London. E.C., or of the Authors, M' ...

CORK PARK HORSE FAIR

... apparently in his usual health, and attended the Recorder's Court last Satuday, was over seventy. He was chairman of the yartheru Whig directorae and other com- pnies WE SHALL GET TO PRETOJRIA. and de Flag that has braved a thowiand years will be ran up in ...

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: ...

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 ...

SOME CHINESE POEMS

... where they may, h But still their forms in dreams asrise to fair ones far away. l Chen Tao, 9th and 10tlh Centu'ies AD. a WHIGS AND TORIES. V Thickly o'er the jasper terrace flower Shadows play; In vain I call my garden boy to sweep them all away. They ...

REVIEWS

... 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 ...

LITERATURE

... a silver to a g'old producing district. The change is indeed I marvellous and suggestive. A further instal- r ment of H. J. Whig-b-ham's narrative of the 1' Boer war is given, in which he criticises the want of strategy and tactics amongst our generals ...

THE STORY OF A GREAT BANKING HOUSE.*

... of the hlst century, ',heu James, one of t.he Lord Provost's four sons. left the Edinburgh bank and set up with the leadiug Whig banlher in London, Mr. George Ctamipbell, under the tirm of C(ampbell and Caout-ts. in their historical house in the Strand ...

CHANGES OF THE CENTURY

... that the public standard of morality amnong tho uipper ter. has been raisefd ditring the ce;ntury. It was 1he fashion of the Whigs and Fox to sn-eer at Pitt ewcause lie did lot ran after his neighbour's wife nor away with his neighbour's daughter. Ylet even ...

UP TO DATE

... to have nothing to do with the wealthy official so-called Liberal gang. The proper tactics are the annihilation of the old Whig party who had been posing as Liberals; the return of some sixty stalwarts; and an overwhelming Tory majority. The company promoters ...

ABERDEEN.*

... rising of 1719, th aud was the agent of Prince Charles at, the th French Couart in 1745. In that year, while S I Huatly was Whig, his brother, Lord Lewis hi Gordont, Lord Pi~telgo, and others;, fought for le the lad we daurna name, but had no great ...