The Political and the Davenport Brothers
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Politics, Spiritualism, Language |
Following remarks in The Times about William E Gladstone and John Bright having 'allowed themselves to be tied up', suggests that there are similarities between the liberal statesmen and the mediums William H H Davenport and Ira E Davenport (celebrated for producing spiritualistic phenomena while being tied up within a wooden box). |
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