... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... many books and pamphlets on the lestions of the day, which won the favour of industrial- s and were filed for reference by the Whig Govern- t. His reward came with a grant of 200,000 acres land in North Carolina when he was forty-three, and the age of sixty-six ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... tawdry-- no, they give instance of social genius, gaiety, elegance, wit or grace. One such group is that brilliant coterie, the Whig aristocracy of the late eighteenth century, which had as its centre Devonshire House, and as its magnet the woman who there ...

... up life at Balgowan. Political ambition remained unstirred; however, he did the orthodox thing in standing for Perth, in the Whig interest. He was defeated by six votes. In 1774, when Thomas was thirty-one, he met Mary, one of the four enchanting daughters ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...