... letters, memoirs, essays, poetry, drama, diaries and State papers innumerable. Here are mighty battles being fought abroad; Whigs, Tories, Jacobites intriguing at home. The personal jealousies and rivalry of statesmen, the quarrels of various ladies round ...

... seem to be a Jacobite Tory, not only at odds with the Whigs and moderate T ories of the eighteenth century, but tracing all the troubles that have ever happened to us since, to those dogs of Whigs; a Johnsonian attitude, not easy without a good deal of ...

... Bagge of Slate Composed Almost Entirely of Coale. Thousands of leaflets under such cum brous, if explanatory names, against Whigs or Dissenters, against Tories and Highflyers, were issued from the zealous pens of scribblers two centuries ago, and it is ...

... laughter- maker in his own age, and so notable a figure in society, or at any rate, the society of Holland House, where the Whigs were gathered together. For his fun and ridicule were rhetorical and cumu lative, stroke following- stroke to a pinnacle of ...

... which merit atten tion, David Emerson's Dark Bright Rose (Hurst and Blackett, 9s. 6d.) presents vividly that high-spirited Whig beauty, the Hon. Mrs. Caroline Norton, Sheridan's grand daughter, her unhappy marriage to a Tory bully, and the loss of her ...

... is not trying to resuscitate the dis credited poet, but the friend and patron of genius, the cultivated eighteenth-century Whig and the eccentric character. He has written a long and very interesting book about this queer man, but I do not feel certain ...

... Queen. No two men could have been more different. Sir Robert was a hard-drinking, sporting squire, well trusted by most of the Whigs, a man who had suffered already many reversals of political fortune, and was to suffer more. He combined a genius for control ...

... the po t of impossibility, except perhaps the pursuit of Byron by Carol Lamb, and the Prince Regent was the patron of the Whigs. k bout this great upsurge of almost militantly intellectual a d political femininity, the Dowager Marchioness of Londonde ...

... Monmouth rising he (eagerly anti- Jacobite) acclaimed that second revolution which was to instate William III. and Mary. His Whig views, his political acumen and the favour he found with the King himself, gave Defoe position during that dual reign. But ...

... which Ralph Lynn wraps Robertson Hare into a bulky parcel, ties him with red tape, and leaves him upon the table of the Free Whigs' office at the House of Commons. Much has happened to Mr. Hare in his tormented past but I don't think he has ever been wrapped ...

... going, work well together, and the comedians are both in splendid form. Mr. Hare, an earnest crank, is the leader of the Free Whigs, a party of two pledged to set the people free from all the repressions of postwar legislation. Mr. Lynn, who has unexpectedly ...

... engaged in an association with Mrs. Norton, turning more positively to politics and becoming the gravitational centre of the Whig Party, with all its assorted collection of eighteenth-century Bourbons and earnest nineteenth- century reformers. Viewed from ...