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The Bystander Bookshelf: Ourselves and the Whigs

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 01 March 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1183 | Page: 29 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 08 March 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2208 | Page: 70 | Tags: Review 

WHEN BYRON WOOED MELBOURNE'S WIFE: A Tragic Episode Retold by Lord David Cecil in His Story of the Early Life ..

... 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: ...

Published: Saturday 11 February 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1741 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

LIFE IN PRE-WAR POLAND: Martin Hare's Penetrating Story of Warsaw in 1938--Charles Kaufman's First Novel, ..

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 04 November 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1675 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

Six Princes

... have proved a sore trial in an age when the man in the street was enthusiastically discover ing politics for himself, when Whig and Tory were literally at each other's throats, and the glorious fervour of Eatanswill was already casting its shadow forward ...

Published: Wednesday 10 May 1933
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 982 | Page: 35 | Tags: Review 

Filibustering in the East

... harvest of cash and jewels, and it was typical of his luck that by the time he reached home, the Stuarts had been ejected, the Whigs were in power, and the great Monopolist East India Company was under a cloud. So White got clear away. It is an amazing tale ...

Published: Wednesday 01 April 1936
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1187 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

Biography and Wit, Greater and Less

... respect. He never looked for popularity, and he was never tolerant of fools or opponents. But he won a fine epitaph from a Whig who said, He is a gentleman steady in his principles, of nice honour, with abundance of learning, brave as the sword he wears ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1935
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1253 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

Creevey the Commentator

... vast upheaval of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. He knew every member, every corner, every angle of the great Whig aristocracy which played such a dominant part in the history of the times, and he brings to life many forgotten men and records ...

Published: Tuesday 06 March 1934
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1290 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

BOOKS: Bülow Whitewashes Himself at the Expense of Everyone else: Sitwell on Mozart: Gore on Gore: Richard ..

... at any rate, the precious memory of a Victorian upbringing in the still-living traditions of the great Whig days. The private language of the Whigs was still heard on the lips of the oldest generation. Gold was goold, lilac lay lock, bracelet brasslet ...

Published: Saturday 30 April 1932
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2519 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

NEW HISTORY & STRANGE CRIMES

... William was far ahead of his time in political understanding. He wanted to abolish the two contending political parties of Whig and Tory and form a national government composed of all parties for the good of the State. Mr. Godfrey Winn has the gift, unusual ...

Published: Wednesday 03 February 1932
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1453 | Page: 46 | Tags: Review 

THE WORLD OF BOOKS

... bombast) he has every chance, but succeeds in eluding them all. Even Johnson, with his animus against those pestilential Whigs, knew when to remain silent upon so unstable a reputation. And now, lest we be surfeited with the great lives of great men ...

Published: Saturday 06 March 1937
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1892 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

AN AMAZING SEA VOYAGE: The Story of a 9,000-Mile Journey Across the Pacific in a Small Open Boat

... away. Lady Bessborough and her sister, the famous Duchess of Devonshire, were, for more than twenty years, the leaders of Whig society and the inti mates of such personalities as Charles James Fox, Canning, and Madame RScamier. Miss Ethel Colburn Mayne's ...

Published: Saturday 02 December 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1949 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review