... 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 ...

... maTnorX r;and collectively they make a 'esautda It t W.cart piece., By the fine way in hc h idvarious movements were played it whigs herieo -9t that the orchestra were in thel- best forni. Tbe h-delightful performance of Haydn's seniphse or wa ork inspiring ...

... 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 ...