... The Bystander Bookshelf Ourselves and the Whigs By V. S. Pritchett IF history does not repeat itself, there is pleasure in thinking that it does, and that, no doubt, is why the maxim was invented. The story of William Lamb, second Lord Melbourne, his ...

... influences of the Whig form of Liberalism, which was hereditary in his family. His father, of whom he was the third son, became sixth Duke of Bedford soon after Lord John's birth, and was one of the little band of aristocratic Whigs whom the French Revolution ...

... 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 ...

... than in the annals of Whig society, the most decorative, and from some points of view, the most civilised community that England has seen And where, the reader may ask, after finishing Lord David's chapter on the beau monde, could Whig society have found ...

... all the world knows, Mr. Russell went from Harrow to Oxford, and served under Mr. Gladstone. He belongs to one of the great Whig families, is a clubbable man, m Dr. Johnson s sense of the word, and is an ardent worker in the cause of the Church of England ...

... caubeen. O'Connell, when reproached for the support of the base, brutal, and bloody Whigs, as he ,.„iwi llclV-l V_.CHIV^VJ. infill, 1 V, 111 his defence, I keep the Whigs upon their legs for the same reason that the Kerry omedhawn stuck his caubeen into ...

... 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 ...

... Napoleon away from Madrid and got more criticism than encouragement from home. John Moore, and his sailor brother, Graham, were Whigs in that circle which revolved round Dr. Curry of Liverpool (Burns' first editor) and included Romilly, Creevey and his friend ...

... relies too much on Piickler- Muskau, that Prince of half-truths; perhaps he concentrates too much on Emily Eden's range of Whig country houses. And, to redress the balance, he might have relied a good deal more on J. L. Hammond. But he has stuck to a ...

... 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 ...

... reviewer would prefer to congratulate Mr. Sackville-West on his solu tion of the problem of what a bedside book should be. A WHIG STATESMAN FALLS FROM HIS PINNACLE Mr. Roger Hedley, a New castle sculptor, putting the finishing touches to his new head for ...