... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...