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The Origins of Liberal Politics, 1830–1874 - The Efficient Secret: The Cabinet and the Development of Political Parties in Victorian England. By Gary W. Cox. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xiv + 187. - Richard Cobden: A Victorian Outsider. By Wendy Hinde. New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale University Press, 1987. Pp. xii + 367. - Gladstone, 1809–1874. By H. C. G. Matthew. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. Pp. xi + 275. - Democracy and Religion: Gladstone and the Liberal Party, 1867–1875. By J. P. Parry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xiii + 506. - Liberalism and Naval Strategy: Ideology, Interest, and Sea Power during the Pax Britannica. By Bernard Semmel. Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1986. Pp. xii + 239.

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The Efficient Secret: The Cabinet and the Development of Political Parties in Victorian England. By Gary W. Cox. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xiv + 187.
Richard Cobden: A Victorian Outsider. By Wendy Hinde. New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale University Press, 1987. Pp. xii + 367.
Gladstone, 1809–1874. By H. C. G. Matthew. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. Pp. xi + 275.

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George L. Bernstein
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , January 1989 , pp. 75 - 89
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4 See Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, 3d ser., 98:859 (May 11, 1848)Google Scholar, for Cobden's assertion of his independence of all parties. See Hinde, , Richard Cobden, pp. 84–85Google Scholar, for the quote from Cobden's article in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, November 1840.

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6 On the radicalization of the Liberal party, see Heyck, T. W., The Dimensions of British Radicalism: The Case of Ireland, 1874–95 (Urbana, Ill., 1974)Google Scholar. On the continuing problems radical sectionalism caused Liberal leaders, see Hamer, D. A., Liberal Politics in the Age of Gladstone and Rosebery: A Study in Leadership and Policy (Oxford, 1972)Google Scholar.

7 Vincent (p. 33) conveys this point rather melodramatically, saying that “Cobden's pamphlets were its [the Liberal party's] Das Kapital: Cobden its Marx.”

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