... The Bystander Bookshelf Ourselves and the Whigs By V. S. Pritchett IF history does not repeat itself, there is pleasure in thinking that it does, and that, no doubt, is why the maxim was invented. The story of William Lamb, second Lord Melbourne, his ...

... than in the annals of Whig society, the most decorative, and from some points of view, the most civilised community that England has seen And where, the reader may ask, after finishing Lord David's chapter on the beau monde, could Whig society have found ...

... all the world knows, Mr. Russell went from Harrow to Oxford, and served under Mr. Gladstone. He belongs to one of the great Whig families, is a clubbable man, m Dr. Johnson s sense of the word, and is an ardent worker in the cause of the Church of England ...

... caubeen. O'Connell, when reproached for the support of the base, brutal, and bloody Whigs, as he ,.„iwi llclV-l V_.CHIV^VJ. infill, 1 V, 111 his defence, I keep the Whigs upon their legs for the same reason that the Kerry omedhawn stuck his caubeen into ...

... reviewer would prefer to congratulate Mr. Sackville-West on his solu tion of the problem of what a bedside book should be. A WHIG STATESMAN FALLS FROM HIS PINNACLE Mr. Roger Hedley, a New castle sculptor, putting the finishing touches to his new head for ...

... the country. Each race had its own political convictions. There were seven main classes of opinion viz., staunch Whigs, timid Whigs, Whigs, jacks on both sides, Tories, moderate Tories, and furious Tories. The Soldier some ways Sergeant Lamb is a liability ...

... with a true instinct, felt that George III. through his servile parlia ment was attempting to recover from the Whigs the power the Whigs had wrested from the Stuarts, and to govern as well as reign as Bolinbroke's Patriotic King. Wilkes that devil, ...

... Melbourne and Queen Victoria's most respected adviser. In his youth he spent his time in brilliant and cultured company, but it was Whig company, and not renowned either for depth of feeling or soberness of opinion. His life was that of any young man of fashion: ...

... the sally has more point if it is remembered that at the time history lay under the pall of the tendentious miasma of the Whig historians. But Disraeli was right in the instance under review. What ever brand of historical scholar sets out to interpret ...

... vices were equally in the grand manner, and poetry sold better than the most sensational fiction. That was the great time of Whig power, when Fox declared that he hated war, when Sheridan proclaimed the right of America to self-determina tion, when Grey ...

... were very few. The worst of them was the Whig, Charles Fox, who had rejoiced over every disaster of his country during the war against America. A good deal of wild nonsense was also written in some of the Whig newspapers. A correspondent, who has forgotten ...

... such reticence. He was, as became a lively innkeeper, a sturdy Tory and a good High Churchman, and an attack he made on the Whigs in 1705 earned him a place in the pillory and a shower of rotten eggs. The London Spy is the essence of Hogarth. It is a succession ...