It is only necessary to point out that the person whom Bolingbroke designates for this high function was Frederick, Prince of Wales, to us the most meagre of a meagre generation, but to Bolingbroke, by whose grace he was captivated, "the greatest and most glorious of human beings." This exaltation of the monarch came at a time when a variety of circumstances had combined to show the decrease of monarchical sentiment.

It bears upon its every page the marks of a personal antagonism.

It is too obviously the programme of a party to be capable of serious interpretation as a system.

The minister who is to be impeached, the wise servants who are to gain office, the attack on corruption, the spirited foreign policy--all these have the earmarks of a platform rather than of a philosophy.

Attacks on corruption hardly read well in the mouth of a dissolute gambler; and the one solid evidence of deep feeling is the remark on the danger of finance in politics.