...he styles him, and the words that follow this expression: "See whether I do not dust that varlet's jacket for him in the next number of the Blue and Yellow" — that is, the Edinburgh Review for September, 1831. Macaulay's review of Croker's edition of Boswell...

...had given of my readiness. He hoped they would hear me often. See whether I do not dust that varlet's jacket for him in the next number of the ' Blue and...Yellow.' I detest him more than cold boiled veal." It was at this time that Croker was getting out his edition of" Boswell's Life of Johnson," a work...

...people remember his controversy with Macaulay, and how the latter kept his vow that he would " dust his jacket for him in the next number of the Blue and Yellow" — for one who realizes that Croker was an able and energetic secretary of the Admiralty for thirty...

...distinguished as among the most "judicial" of judges. Andin'"See whether I do not dust that varlet's jacket for him in the next number of the Blue and...ed.), New York: Harper & Bros.. 1875, v. 1, p. 218.) '"I shall embowel James Anthony Froude." These are the words in which Mr. Freeman gleefully notes down...

...famous article which he himself claimed had "smashed" the book. "See whether I do not dust this varlet's jacket for him in the next number of the ' Blue and...Yellow ' ; I detest him more than cold boiled veal," so he wrote to Lady Trevelyan in July 1831. As for the review itself, we agree with Lord Macaulay's...

...made himself obnoxious to Macaulay in the House of Commons. "See whether I do not dust that varlet's jacket for him in the next number of the Blue and Yellow," wrote Macaulay to his sister Hannah. He kept his word. The next Edinburgh Review contained the now...

...the opposing party. He must have felt towards Southey something of that desire to 'dust the varlet's jacket for him in the next number of the Blue and Yellow ', which, a year later, animated his notorious attack upon John Wilson Croker. And in his review of...

...The his88 See Croker Correspondence, ii, 24-29, Macaulay writes, " I am going to dust the varlet's jacket for him in the next number of the " Blue and Yellow." (Life, NY, 1877, i, 218). torian, himself, asserted that Croker did him a real service, causing his...

...article which he himself claimed had ' smashed ' the book. ' See whether I do not dust this ' varlet's jacket for him in the next number of the " Blue *...Yellow ; " I detest him more than cold boiled veal,' so he wrote to Lady Trevelyan in July 1831. The inference which Mr. Jennings draws from this passage,...

...that he was about to review ' Croker's edition of Bozzy.' " See whether I do not dust that varlet's jacket for him in the next number of the ' Blue and...Yellow.' I detest him more than cold boiled veal." Macaulay did dust the varlet's jacket, and by his review overthrew Croker's reputation for scholarship...