Critical Review of a Political Biography It Examines Style and Insight
The piece critiques a set of sketches on prominent figures like Lord Granville and Mr. Gladstone, noting hurried, perfunctory analysis and poor insight into political service. It contrasts shallow “outside” portraits with a sharper Spectator-style evaluation, finding broader misses in the author’s character painting and original power.
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Macaulay
England
Mr. Gladstone
Lord Granville
Spectator
House of Lords
Gladstone
Calne
Lowe
Lord Dward Fitzmaurice
Exchequer
University
Inaugural Colonial Society Dinner at Willis's Rooms
The Coronial Society hosted its inaugural dinner with Viscount Bury in the chair. Speakers included Reverdy Johnson and prominent figures like Gladstone, Childers, Fortescue, Granville, Northcote, Monck, Cartier, and Albemarle as colonists gathered in London.
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Colonial Society
Willis
Viscount Bury
M.P
United States
Reverdy Johnson
Mr. Gladstone
Mr. Childers
Fortescue
Earl Granville
Stafford Northcote
Lord Monck
G. E. Cartier
Earl of
Convicted highwaymen flogged in Newcastle gaol
Reports note two convicts flogged in Newcastle gaol on Wednesday. The Great Western Railway division now operates on a narrow gauge. A major iron ship-builder negotiates with Government over Woolwich Dockyard. Sheffield council backs national compulsory education. No basis to fusion of two operas. A satirical quip about Jews and donkeys in Portland provokes counterplay. Iowa attorneyess-at-law advertised. New York Herald predicts a farmeress to Presidentess commission. Admiralty to invite tenders for 200000 lb Australian preserved beef.
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Selwin-Ibbetson
Akroyd
Headlam
Ireland
Captain Mackay
the Donoghue
Irish Times
Major Knox
Sligo
Gladstone
England
Daniel O'Connell
Parison Phriantropist
Mercier
Albertgate
Thomas Wright
Earl of Shaftesbury
London
Cosmo Gordon
Marruano Park
London Tavern
Sheriff Hutton
Admiralty
Gambier
Rumble
Bow-street
Nicholas Mahon Maxwell
Bristow
Peter
Robert Dundas
Spencer Robinson
Baxter
M.P
Maxwell
Newcastle-on-Tyne
Great Western Railway
Woolwich Dockyard
Sheffield
Portland
Solomon
Iowa County
New York
British Medical Journal
Deptford
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Atlis
Her Majesty’s
Thomas Henry
Aborigines Protection Society
Karl Granville
Colonies
William Monsell
R. N. Fowler
Lord
Hudson's Bay
Queensland
Polynesia
Foreign Office
Fiji Islands
Transvaal
Orange Free State
Mr. Mansell
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