... daughter visited him there, and later it was bought by Charles Fox, father of Charles James Fox, and became the rallying-point of Whig Society. Wanton ruin and destruction Most of the chief treasures of Holland House were removed before the war, but a number ...

... William Senior, Editor of the Field; Mr. W. J Fisher, Editor of the Daily Chronicle and Mr. J It. Fisher, Editor of the Northern Whig had good cause to be grateful to the Chairman for his just appreciation of their services to journalism and their fitness for ...

... 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 ...

... Where is the Radical who can boast that he has tasted Salisbury salt But wicked inter-marriages and base friend ships between Whig and Tory make the higher exclusiveness impossible. Even at Mr. Balfour's dance there was no real safety. Lord and Lady Salisbury ...

... 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 ...

... benches a quarter of a century ago, and he is held up as an ogre, just as Mr. Chamberlain was held up, to frighten away the Whigs. His attitude on the War was very unpopular, but the staunchness with which he held it has increased the respect of many who ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... you assure me it 's all right, I '11 see about it. Devonshire House is hardly less guarded with walls, witnesses to the old Whig exclusiveness and the enthusiast who wants to borrow a drawing from a Duke or a Duchess must turn two corners and ring the ...

... ARTICLE BY FRANCIS TOYE. MUNICH AND MUSIC. ANYBODY who has been brought up on the orthodox histories of Eng land, written by the Whig historians of the Victorian era, must have been struck by the almost complete absence of any reference to music in their works ...

... of the forehead, and those of the other on the left. Upon inquiry, I found that the body of Amazons on my right hand were Whigs, and those on my left Tories. Long before then, it is probable that the patch had been im pressed into the service of other ...

... 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 ...