... the Napoleon of Conser vatism, Mr. Herbert Rathbone, more than another the true type of semi-philanthropic, semi -aesthetic Whig; Mr. Max Muspratt. These as men mean more, perhaps, to the city than the things for which they stand or fight. The public life ...

... the Whigs in the great era when the Whig aristocracy was a mighty political force the most bigoted and exclusive aristocracy that ever waved the flag of democracy. Later, the house was a noble centre of taste and culture which carried on the Whig traditions ...

... the most leaden hours. Glasgow Evening T imes. The literary and artistic features are, as usual, admirably combined. Northern Whig. The fiction is igood, and the number altogether bright and attractive.- Halifax Daily Guardian. Originality is the keynote ...

... week in the family burial-ground at Kilmun, was, like his grandfather, the eighth Duke (who was a great character among the Whig statesmen of the Victorian era), a strong personality who defended his beliefs with passionate intensity. He was a devoted ...

... 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 ...

... these be pronouncedly Whig or Tory, compared with whose settled and unquestioning one-sidedness twentieth-century partisanship seems frothy and tame. On the whole, largely owing to the Holland House tradition and its literature, the Whig dogs have the best ...

... ISif^lonoda ttpmu/njfe vi V ON VARIOUS TOPICS OF THE WEEK Dishing the Whigs The inquiry addressed by Lord Beaconsfield in our last issue as to what was being done for his principles has not been left long unanswered. On Thursday the papers printed the ...

... Old Whigs. He believed in the benevolent despot, and when he failed to find him he had no other resource. The great reformers of the last, decade or so, Chang-Chih-Tung, Yuan- Shi- Kai, and even Kang-Yu-Wei, have all been of this essentiall}' Whig school ...

... Conservative out and to return a Whig, he will not have them called Liberals he proposes to launch on a golf tour of the British Isles, Ireland excluded politically and golfingly. As a matter of fact, his horrible Whig will not be at the top of the poll ...

... Contrary to all expecta tions, the men who enjoy the most general popularity are the Radical black sheep not the snow- white Whigs from the Rosebery fold. C.-B., Mr. Morley, Mr. Lloyd- George, Mr. Burns, are certainly in better odour with the man in the ...

... so long as they could exercise a general control over him, rather than encourage Disraeli's plans for getting rid of the Whigs. As for the reluctant submission of the Tory aristocracy to his authority, it is truly represented in the character of the ...

... military services, and he was one of the instigators of Warren Hastings's impeachment in 1787. He became Prime Minister of the Whig administration in 1831, and retired in 1834 in consequence of a disagreement in the Cabinet on the Irish Coercion Act THE DAILY ...