... of Prince Charlie with the following words woven with the Stewart tartan into its texture Let Tories guard their king while Whigs in halters swing. There is also a tin will-case dated 1610 which was found in a chimney. Another item of great- interest is ...

... help from his Ministers, gratified Lord Morley by describing him as the only representative left in the Cabinet of the old Whigs. Lord Morley, it should be said, was always particularly scrupulous in consulting the King's personal feelings so as to avoid ...

... 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 ...

... tactical point of view, he deserves to do. But Lord Grey's support will hardly help him. No one associates that most retiring of Whigs with the dynamic qualities which the young voters look for in the leaders of their choice. The White Man's Burden. I AM interested ...

... Townley's, and now the Dowager Lady Airlie's Lady Palmerston and Her Times, which has followed so closely on the heels of In Whig Society. Till one reads Lady Battersea's book, one has no idea, I think, of the extraordinary amount of inter-marrying there ...

... blessed with hereditary riches, is in large measure defined by lack of tradition. It is a standard which the last of the great Whigs, such as Lord Lans- downe, viewed with shame and despair. We have in this country immensely exaggerated views of the income ...

... list (and i& it is an ideal book to buy or to p., a present). It draws a photograpinol accurate picture of the life of a p Whig family in the middle of lasfctta and gives you the feeling thatyoula been reading a not very inferior Ja Austen novel. There ...

... Feather. And then politics began to take every man by the throat, and it was no longer possible without blood-letting that Whig could associate with Tory. The Taverns j perforce must choose their colour and i tr* if Thp Whiu was 'efnsed 1 admission (for ...

... watching ants near an ant heap, except that I don't suppose we are half as efficient 1 1-- T ave you read Lady Airlie's book, In Whig Society So interesting it is with its first-hand information about all the great people, political and social, of the time ...

... Ludovici regards as the present deplorable condition of public life. It is no comfort to be assured that nothing that the Puritan-Whig-Liberal fraternity ever proposed no element in their fantastic ideology could ever have prevented the state of England from ...

... MEMBER FOR HONITON Sir Clive Morrison Bell, who has held his consti tuency since 1910. He is a financier THE GREATEST OF THE WHIGS: Sir John Simon, the mem ber for Spen Valley. Sir John is admired even by the Tories THE MASTER MARINERS: Sir Burton Chadwick ...

... 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 ...