... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Automobile Club on Thursday, the 7th inst. Mr. S. F. Edge was in the position of that celebrated Government who caught the Whigs bathing and ran away with their clothes, for of a surety, compared with that consummate tactician, the four-cylinder enthusiasts ...

... well as oi politics. They were both intimate friends of the late Mr. Gladstone, and both more or less inheritors of the old Whig traditions. There, perhaps, the resemblance ends, for Mr. Russell is distinguished as the entertaining raconteur, the urbane ...

... and one that has to be reckoned with seriously by every man who has any thing to lose, no matter whether he calls himself Whig or Tory, or what not. As might have been expected, the Chancellor of the Exchequer tried fo revenge himself for his inability ...

... dwindled by three times that sufficiently formidable figure. In other words, if the Tory has been chastised with whips, the Whig has been chastised with scorpions, and neither side has much to boast of Coming, as it has done, upon the top of the elections ...

... The quaint old dress, the grand old style, The mots, the racy stories, The wine, the dice, the wit, the bile, The hate of Whigs and Tories, as Frederick Locker sang in his London Lyrics. The St. James's, in Piccadilly, is a diplomatic club for foreign ...

... change of atmosphere. Since 1830 the Absolutism of Russia has been the pet aversion of the British people especially of the Whigs, of whom Sir Edward Grey is so eminent and characteristic a survival. 1 o change the habits of seventy-seven years is not easy ...

... He was Liberal Candidate for South Hunts, but his title now pre vented his being elected to the House of Commons. He was a Whig, and so his opinions made it fairly obvious that he would never be elected to the House of Lords as a Scottish representative ...