Prime ministers -- Great Britain -- Biography; Russell, John Russell, Earl, 1792-1878
BY HENRY DUNCKLEY ('VERAX').
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'It is hard to imagine a better piece of work than this short study
of Lord Melbourne by Mr. Dunckley. Amongst some of the most amusing
of Mr. Dunckley's pages--and hardly a page of this little book is
dull after the preliminary matter is passed by--is his account of
Lord Melbourne's dealings with theology and Church preferments....
Of two lives of the Queen's Prime Ministers which have as yet
appeared, we certainly give the preference to Mr. Dunckley's over
Mr. Froude's. Mr. Froude had the more attractive theme, but Mr.
Dunckley has made more of the less interesting theme.'--SPECTATOR.
SIR ROBERT PEEL
BY JUSTIN McCARTHY, M.P.
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'Mr. McCarthy relates clearly and well the main incidents of Peel's
political life, and deals fairly with the great controversies which
still rage about his conduct in regard to the Roman Catholic Relief
Bill and the Repeal of the Corn Laws.'
SATURDAY REVIEW.
'Mr. McCarthy's chapters on Catholic Emancipation are written with
admirable impartiality, and he does ample justice to that
high-minded administrator, Lord Anglesey.'--ATHENAEUM.
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THE RT. HON. W. E. GLADSTONE, M.P.
BY G. W. E. RUSSELL.
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'Written in a manly and independent spirit, which we should expect
in one of his lineage ... an honest book.'--WORLD.
'One of the most complete and succinct accounts of his extraordinary
career that we have yet received.... A volume which we may specially
commend as the most attractive and authoritative history of the man
with whom it deals that has yet been given to the world.... Mr.
Russell's clear and able sketch of one whom he is justly proud to
call his friend.'--SPEAKER.
THE MARQUIS OF SALISBURY, K.G.
BY H. D. TRAILL, D.C.L.
SECOND EDITION. With Photogravure Portrait. Crown 8vo. 3_s._ 6_d._
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write it; a good thing when it is written as a scholar should write
it; a good thing when it is written as a man full of practical and
theoretical knowledge of his subject should write it. But it is a
very rare thing indeed to find, as we find here, all three merits in
combination. The result is not only a remarkable criticism on a man;
it is, in part of it at least, the best and ... the most impartial
sketch of recent political history that we have recently
seen.'--SATURDAY REVIEW.
LORD PALMERSTON
BY THE MARQUIS OF LORNE.
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