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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 27: the antidote to money (search)
frauds, or a woman's shame-all these being measurable in money. In the English titled classes we see a constant transfer of untitled riches, if used for the right political party, into ennobled wealth. It is largely a more gilded and veneered Tammany. Witness the mattercourse comment of the London Spectator on the honors bestowed by the British government on the last Queen's birthday. Lord Salisbury was not distributing them eccentrically, but according to the regular custom, taking wealt23, 1896. The Spectator is, on the whole, the ablest of the great English weeklies, and the fairest; it is not at present opposing Lord Salisbury, nor is it saying this by way of censure. In what respect does all this differ from the methods of Tammany? There is nothing new about it; in the Greville Journals (July 2, 1826) the writer reports: A batch of peers has been made; everybody cries out against Charles Ellis's peerage (Lord Seaford); he has no property and is of no family.... However