... story of that other war the American War of Independence, when the whole country was torn with dissension between the rebel Whigs and the Tories who had thrown in their lot with the British. The plot of Charleston Bound centres around the adventures of ...

... they will remark, a hundred years of liberalism lost its faculties, reverted to childhood and played once more at being the Whig aristocracy. No sooner was Devonshire House pulled down than a number of brilliant writers re-created it in the imagination ...

... the country. Each race had its own political convictions. There were seven main classes of opinion viz., staunch Whigs, timid Whigs, Whigs, jacks on both sides, Tories, moderate Tories, and furious Tories. The Soldier some ways Sergeant Lamb is a liability ...

... covered in this book being from 1886 to 1907. Sir George Leveson Gower writes of men and memories of a decade in which the old Whig families were still wielding considerable power and influence. He was a Whip in those Parliaments in which the great Liberal ...

... of a bogus romanticism, an artificial glamour and an over-emphasised sordidness. He might have added the hangover from the Whig historians omnipresent in our school curricu- lums, in which American history is consistently played down. I seriously suggest ...

... marries an English officer in the Duke of Cumberland's army.. There was nothing disloyal in that, for the Grahames were a Whig family. But Morag's eldest brother was a Jacobite, and when, clandestinely, she visits him in hiding, her spouse (was this ...

... gifts, since it is itself a book of easy charm and a kind of facile elegance which suits the period it depicts. For the great Whig families feature here, and the London of Devonshire House and Charles James Fox and the Prince Regent (who would loyally sport ...

... marriage until Mary's death, and it seemed to at least one reader to have been written with a strong Whig bias, though with a frank admission of the Whigs' inadequacy. The aim of the royal pair is shown to have been the estab lishment of a lasting European ...

... the sally has more point if it is remembered that at the time history lay under the pall of the tendentious miasma of the Whig historians. But Disraeli was right in the instance under review. What ever brand of historical scholar sets out to interpret ...

... heiress, and was created a baronet. Both Sir Bysshe and his son, Timothy (the poet's father), played a respectable part in Whig politics some advance ment may have been owed to the interest of their neighbour, the Duke of Norfolk the Duke, we learn, extended ...

... of her impending marriage to S an Irish General Mr. R. W. Ketton-Cramer achieves a broad, i S scholarly portrait of the Big Whig of Straw- berry Hill in a reprint of a 1940 biography, S Horace Walpole (Faber, 21s.), which offers 2 us an absorbing escape ...

... brought forth his learning in graceful style, but his judgments were calmer and loftier than those of the grand but prejudiced Whig. This Olympian aspect of his character is brought out very clearly in A VICTORIAN HISTORIAN PRIVATE LETTERS OF W. E. H. LECKY ...