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... Hartmann. (Heinemann. 21s) BETWEEN the wars there grew up in this country a school of Tory historians writing rebuttals of the Whig interpretation of English history which had been current (and almost official) until then. The seventeenth century when the ...

... not included the 19th century for he talked of the reactionary Conservatives of those days and of the great work done by the Whigs for social reform. He was still talking about Conservatism 'preserving privilege' when we left him. ...

... to her death in 1824. Now for the first time it is possible to feel that we really understand the odd life led by this great Whig family at the turn of the eighteenth century. Instead of the golden whirl of happiness that one had always imagined and cherished ...

... several others. The particular form of the English gentleman for which Sir Harold has a natural sympathy is the aristocratic Whig one, which flourished in England in the sixty years before the passing of the Reform Bills of 1830. According to this code ...

... means `adultery', thus justifying the law of divorce. Jesus College, Oxford. A. G. NEWELL What makes a Whig? Snt, At the mention of the word 'Whig' by your reviewer of Sir Harold Nicolson's new book, Good Behaviour, the late G. K. Chesterton turned in ...

... steps. Certainly the G overnment do not intend to wind up this Parliament merely in possession of most of by Edward Barry the Whigs' clothes: their working partnership with the TUC must be consolidated and stabilised. Those back-benchers not already committed ...

... EVER was there such an example of brilliance without wisdom as in Lord • Macaulay. He had all the bottomless confidence of a Whig, a brilliant memory, and a complete ignorance of the intangibles of life. Had he not gone to India at the rate of 10,000 a ...

... Whig supremacy, his twenty stone set firmly on the Treasury Bench. The blessings of constitutional government, the basis for John Morley's prim world, were provided by 'the first of the modern Prime Ministers', his thoughts , far off at Houghton. To justify ...

... WHIGS AND STORIES THE British political system is the envy of this world and, no doubt, the wonder of the next. Disraeli considered Peel to have been the greatest Member of Parliament that ever lived. Yet after the exhausting struggle with Whigs and ...

... elec- , tion'. From the beginning of the two-party system there always were 'whimsical' Tories ready to do a deal with the Whigs. The constituency deserters in self-defence can claim a valid criticism that the Government has failed to help 'their sort' ...

... raised against him. Yet he contrived to hold together a patchwork Tory Party made up of his own true-blues, the Devonshire Whigs and the Chamberlain Radicals. His brilliant and more gregarious grandson must have wrestled hard with his conscience before ...