... are the one man for it. Lecky precedes you with the Canning chapter and Spencer Walpole follows (in the next volume) with the Whig reforms. This is the one case in which I can give a central piece of Irish history to a genuine Irishman. Our pages are 550 ...

... the better. T am aware that the whole basis of political opinion has so changed that it is not possible to expect that the Whig of one age should be the Liberal of the other, that the Tory of one age' should be the Conservative of the other. All 1 would ...

... monarch in a constitutional system may be permitted to govern as well as reign. One thing is absolutely clear, that the old Whig theory that the British Monarch reigns but does not govern was absolutely stultified under the rule of the last Sovereign, ...

... story told him by Harness j by which Lydia White will always live. She had given a dinner party at which all the guests were Whigs, while she herself was famous for the opposite politics. The company were discussing in rather a querulous strain the desperate ...

... very strong element in the publications of the Murray firm. TYf such a character is the volume called Further Memoirs of the Whig Party, by the third Lord Holland, edited by the new Earl of Ilchester. Lord Holland fills so large a space in the life of his ...

... write history to prove that Providence was 011 the side of the Whigs so it is Mr. Whibley 's ambition to prove that it is on the side of the Tories. The historical spirit knows neither Whig nor Tory. It Weighs carefully the multitude of documents and strives ...

... reading than the stuff that the same class is reading now. NT ow that he has eliminated himself from party warfare we all -Whig and Tory, Liberal and Conservative alike love Lord Rosebery. His literary tastes are so good. He is interested in the right ...

... working woman was quite memorable. 1\J ot, however, since Johnson took care in his impartial parliamentary reports that the Whig dogs should get the worst of it have the opponents of woman's suffrage received so clever a castigation. Perhaps someone else ...

... parson, and above all the inn, which had its definite Whig or Tory complexion. Very excellent is Mr. Kebbel's account of the Crowns at Leicester, the old Tory or blue inn, the Bell, being green or Whig in complexion. Dickens's Eatanswill was no exaggeration ...

... wonderful story. HT he heroine who stoops is an Irish girl of good family, a granddaughter of Lady Morfa, the great lady of the Whig party in 1809. Lady Morfa's daughter, Lady Hermione, had made a runaway marriage with Colonel Chambre. The first eighteen years ...

... he really achieved in Europe. Curiously enough in his own day his partisans in this country were confined to a handful of Whigs and a still larger section of political extremists. It was fore seen that had he been allowed to land after Waterloo he would ...

... little to existing knowledge, but they do add very considerably to our pleasure. Hobhouse, as all the world knows, was a leading Whig statesman of his day. He was in Lord Russell's Cabinet he was made Lord Broughton although the barony became extinct with him; ...