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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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er, whether Lord Spencer be premier orSir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Mr. Bryce willbe a prominent member of the cabinet, and Mr.Bryce is as sympathetic an American as if he hadbeen born in New England. WINSTON CHURCHILL IN THE COMMONS. After the premier, Mr. Winston Churchill will,perhaps, be the leader inthe Commons. Whilethe matrimonial alliances between Americanwomen and British politicians have not often re-sulted in large or brilliant families, there is onebrilliant exception. Miss Jerome, who marriedRandolph Churchill, has not a large family, buther son, AVinston, has done mfich to gratifyBritish-American intermarriages. For WinstonChurchill, who is an American on his mothersside, is the most conspicuous and most promisingof the younger politicians in Great Britain.Whether he will ever lead the House of Commonsis an open question. But if he does, he will oweit quite as much to his Ameiican mother as to hisaristocrat father. THREE OF THE LEADERS OF THE NEXT BRITISH PARLIAMENT. 583
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EARL SPENCER. Miss Jennie Jeronae, who became Lady Ran-dolph Churchill, and who is now Mrs. Cornwallis-West, is by universal admission one of thecleverest and most influential women in Britain.She is credited with having suggested to herhusband the formation of the Primrose League,the most successful of all modern political or-ganizations in England. She is only one of itsvice-presidents, but she was its inspiring voice.Many of its most successful features were Yan-kee dodges which proved mightily successfulwhen transplanted to British soil. She was apower in English society during her husbands lifetime. She has been still more conspicuousand influential since his deMli. She can organ-ize, intrigue, edit, and train. She nc longeredits the sumptuous Anglo-Saxon Revieiv, but shecontributes to periodical literature and devotesherself to the task of promoting the fortunes ofher son. Winston, an irate Tory recentlyremarked,—theres nothing in Winston. Buthes got some of the cleverest wome

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