... did a quarter of a century ago Almost equally grotesque is the im passioned defence of the Corsican by our own philosophic Whigs like Lord Rosebery though the funniest thing of all has been the physical imitation of the Emperor by some individuals, even ...

... Past About you We'll miss your guarded garden nook For how will Piccadilly look Without you Caoendo tutus safe retreat For Whigs, and May fair's most elite Sultana. You greatly roused the TTory gorge, For, long be ore Lloyd George, came Georg- iana. You ...

... pleasure-hunting people were beginning to suspect that England was not quite healthy. Now 1 am afraid these old- time Liberal and Whig valua tions have disappeared. The old men have made fortunes and the young men have dreamt night mares. The soldiers believed ...

... reference without which no gentleman's library is complete. When old John Debrett, the Piccadilly bookseller, favoured by the Whigs, started his famous peerage in 1784, it needed but three small volumes of 400 pages each to-day it has blossomed into a teeming ...

... which fascinated Burns, was published in 1776, but its spirit is extraordinarily modern. Like some modern politicians, he bids Whig and Tory all agree and he bars dull Italian lays just as some of us denounce jazz: which only proves that the spinr oi irue ...

... long ago could be just as modern. Anyhow there is a letter which would suggest as much in Mabell, Countess of Airlie's, In Whig Society.. The letter was written by ill-starred Lady Caroline Lamb, who became Lady Melbourne, and who figures in the many-sided ...

... followed up by the War Office librarian, Mr. Hudleston, in his recent volume of sparkling essays. Mr. Fortescue whips the Whigs, yet, though the Whiggish Macaulay was a very great offender in biased judgments, critical libels are not the monopoly of any ...

... scoundrels that ever existed. To Macaulav he is a hero with a little tin halo. The Doctor was a Tory. Macaulav was a bitter Whig. Macaulav wrote a llistorv of England, and Johnson did not, and that is how history gets itself written. Apropos William of ...

... left, were safe. The landowning classes, through the Houses of Parliament, secured and main tained control of the realm. The Whig oligarchy, under Walpole, was succeeded by the Tory oligarchy under Pitt. Both upheld the existing system against all comers ...

... 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 ...

... actors in the House of Commons, although there are one or two who have been previously on the stage. A hundred years ago a Whig statesman, afterwards Prime Minister, refused to join Canning's Government 011 the ground that he regarded the son of an actress ...

... similar situation did arise in the eighteenth century over the Reo-ency Bill during George Ill's first attack of insanity. The Whigs were the party who had always opposed the prerogative of the Crown, their object being to keep the govern ment of the country ...