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ments of protest are treated by Jenkins (a smart and biased
account of the lords' resistance to reform},663 Steward (who at
last gives the Ulster crisis the comprehensive treatment long
called for),666 and Rover (a plain and not adequate treatment
of the battle for women's franchise which, as usual, over-
estimates the part played by the militants).667 Morgan shows
how strong the political influence of Welsh radicalism with its
religious overtones was from disestablishment to the fall of
Lloyd George.668 An unusual viewpoint, not altogether dis-
passionate, is provided for the understanding of those hundred
years in the anonymous history of The Times newspaper
(written by Stanley Morison).6*9

Despite all this, political biographies still appear in which
political history must be hunted down, and despite everything
the sometimes gifted amateur continues to operate. We confine
ourselves in the main to the more professional works. Rolo's
attempt to cope with the large and varied figure of Canning
has partial success only.670 Two very different radical poli-
ticians appear in New's solemn book on the lively, brilliant
and irresponsible Brougham (New died before the work was
finished) and in Driver's account of that honest and limited
man, the tory reformer Oastler.671 Much more important is
Gash's life of Peel, a work in the grand tradition of which only

retirement', JMH 35 (1963), 354-65.-Neal Blewett, Tree

Fooders, Balfourites, Whole Hoggers; factionalism within the

Unionist party, 1906 - 1910*, HJ 11 (1968), 95-124.
6i5 Roy Jenkins, Mr Balfour's Poodle. L: Heinemann; 1954. Pp. 224.
*6S A. C. Q.. Steward, The Ulster Crisis. L: Faber: 1967. Pp. 284.
€*7 Constance Rover, Women^s Suffrage and Party Politics. L:Routledge:

1967. Pp. xvi, 240. Rev: EHR 84, 427^; HJ 12, 725^
668 Kenneth O. Morgan, Wales in British Politics, 1868- igss. Cardiff:

U of Wales P: 1963. Pp. xii, 353.
««fl The History of the Tims, vob. 3 and 4: 1884 -1920. L: Times

Publishing Company: 1947* 1952. Pp, xv, 862; xvi, 534.
*70 P. J. V, Rolo, George Canning: three biographical studies. L: Mac-

millan: 1965. Pp. ix, 276. Rev: EHR 81, 6i3f.
871 Chester W. New, The life of Henry Brougham to 1830.0: Clarendon:

1961. Pp. xi, 458, Rev: EHR 78, 7398".- Cecil HL Driver, Tor?

Radical: the life of Richard Oastkr. L: OUP: 1946. Pp. ix, 597.