Disraeli; a picture of the Victorian age

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CONTENTS

Mr. GLADSTONE’s CruEL Duty SHADOWS Ear) et THe Top oF THE GREASY POLE

Part III The Queen . The Chief

ACTION ATROCITIES War? . ee aes THE Concress OF BERLIN .

AFGHANS, ZULUS, FLOops .

.. THE Outer Worip .

“His FAvouRITE FLOWER” .

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NOTE

It did not seem advisable in this volume to indicate my references in footnotes on every page; but I give below a list of the principal works which I have made use of. I would emphasize my great debt to Mr. Buckle, whose Life contains most of the documents cited; to M. Elie Halévy, whose Histoire du peuple anglais au XIX° siécle provides so admirable an introduction to the study of English political life; to M. Gabriel Hanotaux, who helped me greatly in grasping the difficulties of the Congress of Berlin; and to Mr. Desmond MacCarthy, who put me on the track of valuable and revealing anecdotes.

I allowed myself, following the example of English historians, to regard as autobiographical the story of the schoolboy battle which figures both in Vivian Grey and in Contarini Fleming.

I have made every effort to be fair to Peel and to Gladstone, but I should advise any reader who may want a picture of the latter undistorted by the Disraelian lens to read Morley’s Life of Gladstone, and the admirable portrait sketched by Lytton Strachey in his essay on General Gordon. He will find that critics and admirers alike, if their intentions are sincere, are at one in discovering the same traits in their subject.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

BacEHot (W.): Essays on Parliamentary Reform. 1883.

BERKELEY (Hon. G. C. Grantley F.): My Life and Recollections.

BranpbeEs (Georg): Beaconsfield.

Bryce (Rt. Hon. James): Studies in Contemporary Biography (Macmillan).

Buck.Le (Peter): The Eglinton Tournament.

Buckte (G, E.): and Monyrenny (W. F.): Life of Disraeli. 6 vols.

BuLwer (R.): Unpublished Letters.

CazAMIAN: Le Roman social en Angleterre. 1903.

Crarke (Sir Edward): Benjamin Disraeli (John Murray).

Ciaypen (P. W.): England under Lord Beaconsfield. 1890.

Contapes (G. de): 'Le Comte D’Orsay. 1802.

Croker Papers. 1884.

CucHEVAL-CLariGNy: Lord Beaconsfield et son temps. 1879.

Devey (L.): Life of Lady Lytton. 1887.

Dictionary of National Biography.

D’Isragti (Isaac): The Works, with a Memoir by His Son. 1858.

D'IsraELi (Isaac): Commentaries. 1851.

Drew: Catherine Gladstone (Nisbet).

Eglinton Castle (Tournament at). 1839.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Escort (T. H.S.): Edward Buller.

Escotr (T. H.S.): Great Victorians. 1916.

FiTzGERALD (Percy H.): Lives of the Sheridans.

Francis (C. H.): The Late Sir Robert Peel. 1852.

FroupE (A.): Life of Lord Beaconsfield.

GarneTT (R.): Shelley and Lord Beaconsfield.

GREVILLE (C. C. F.): Journals.

Hanotaux (Gabriel): Histoire de la France Contemporaine (Le Congrés de Berlin).

Hector (A. F.): Mrs. Norton. 1897.

Hyamson (A. M.): History of the Jews in England. 1908.

HynpMan (H. M.): The Record of an Adventurous Life. 1911.

JeRRoLD (Walter B.): A Day with Disraeli. 1872.

Keppet (T. E.): Speeches of Lord Beaconsfield. 1881.

Kessex (T. E.): ‘Life of Lord Beaconsfield. 1888.

Kent (John): Racing Life of Lord George Bentinck (Blackwood).

Laxe (Henry): Personal Reminiscences of Lord Beaconsfield. 1891.

Lee (E.): Wives of Prime Ministers. 1918.

Lecouis (E.) and CazamiaNn (L.): Histoire de la littérature anglaise.

LockuarT (J.G.): Theodore Hook, a Sketch. 1875.

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Lytton (The Earl of): The Life of E. Edward Bulwer, 1st ‘Lord Lytton.

MacCartny (J. H.): Sir Robert Peel (Prime Ministers of Queen Victoria). 1906.

Mappben (R.R.): Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess Blessington. 1855.

Martin (Sir Theodore): Life of H. R. H. the Prince Consort. 1880.

Martin (Sir Theodore): A Life of Lord Lyndburst. 1883.

MEYNELL (W.): Benjamin Disraeli. 1903.

MonTEFIoRE (Judith): Dzaries of Sir Moses Montefiore and Lady Montefiore. 1800.

Morey (Lord): Life of W. E. Gladstone (Macmillan).

Nevitt (Lady Dorothy): Reminiscences (Arnold).

Nevi_t (Lady Dorothy): ‘Life and Letters.

NeviLt (R. H.): The World of Fashion.

O’Connor (T. P.): Life of Lord Beaconsfield.

PEEL (George): Private Letters of Sir Robert Peel (Murray).

PERKINS (JaneG.): The Life of Mrs Norton. 1909.

QUEEN Victoria: Letters. .

ReyMmonp (E. T.): The Alien Patriot.

Rumeoip (Sir Horace): Recollections of a Diplomatist.

SICHEL (Walter): Disraeli (Methuen).

SOMERVELL: Disraeli and Gladstone.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

STRACHEY (Lytton): Queen Victoria.

STRACHEY (Lytton): Eminent Victorians.

TOLLEMACHE (Hon. Lionel): Talks with Gladstone (Arnold).

TREVELYAN (Sir George): Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay.

West: A History of the Chartist Movement.

WuHiBLEY (Charles): Political Portraits (Macmillan).

Wuis.ey (Charles): Life of John Manners. 1925.

ZANGWILL (Israel): Children of the Ghetto.

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PUBLISHERS NOTE

Tue three verses from Humbert Wolfe’s “Humoresque” printed on the half-titlepage to Part III of this book appear by kind permission of the author and of Messrs. Ernest Benn, Ltd.