... Charles Dilke, as representing the Home Rule Radicals in the Cabinet of 1880, on the one hand, and Mr. Gladstone held back by the Whig section on the other. The crisis was averted by the sudden defeat of the Government and the accession to power of Lord Salisbury ...

... harvest of cash and jewels, and it was typical of his luck that by the time he reached home, the Stuarts had been ejected, the Whigs were in power, and the great Monopolist East India Company was under a cloud. So White got clear away. It is an amazing tale ...

... old Holland House you can see through the gates if you walk up Holland Lane from Kensington High Street was the centre of the Whig party in the early days of the nineteenth century, and generally entertained the wit and talents of London. She herself is ...

... respect. He never looked for popularity, and he was never tolerant of fools or opponents. But he won a fine epitaph from a Whig who said, He is a gentleman steady in his principles, of nice honour, with abundance of learning, brave as the sword he wears ...

... vast upheaval of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. He knew every member, every corner, every angle of the great Whig aristocracy which played such a dominant part in the history of the times, and he brings to life many forgotten men and records ...

... 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 ...

... to understand what those now nearly extinct beings, the old-fashioned High-and- 4 Dry Church dignitary and the old-fashioned Whig of the middle of the last century, were really like. J The same volume contains a quite worthless article on Emily Bronte by ...

... 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 ...

... at any rate, the precious memory of a Victorian upbringing in the still-living traditions of the great Whig days. The private language of the Whigs was still heard on the lips of the oldest generation. Gold was goold, lilac lay lock, bracelet brasslet ...

... essential w that he should introduce any politics. The politics 8 of the first number of Everyman, by the way, are w simply Whig. This is probably the smallest f'j portion of the community that is interested in politics. Everyman has a friendly pat for ...

... 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 ...

... replied to Radicals who called him a Tory in disguise. 'A Tory in disguise I will tell you who is a Tory in disguise it is a Whig in place. But To-day Things are Very Different What Lady Dorothy thought, and thinks, about Society is revealed in one or ...