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PORTRAIT OF THE YOUNG DISRAELI. FROM THE MINIATURE BY
KENNETH MACLEAY IN THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
_Frontispiece_

PORTRAIT OF DISRAELI THE YOUNGER. AFTER A WATER COLOUR
BY A. E. CHALON 23

PORTRAIT OF DISRAELI IN 1852. AFTER A PAINTING BY SIR
FRANCIS GRANT, P.R.A. 289

“TIME IS REPRESENTED WITH A SCYTHE AS WELL AS WITH AN
HOUR-GLASS. WITH THE ONE HE MOWS DOWN, WITH THE OTHER HE
RECONSTRUCTS.”--DISRAELI, _in The Press_, 1853.

“GREAT MINDS MUST TRUST TO GREAT TRUTHS AND GREAT TALENTS FOR THEIR
RISE, AND NOTHING ELSE.”

“TRUE WISDOM LIES IN THE POLICY THAT WOULD EFFECT ITS AIMS BY THE
INFLUENCE OF OPINION, AND YET BY THE MEANS OF EXISTING FORMS.”

“... THE PAST IS ONE OF THE ELEMENTS OF OUR POWER.”--_Speech on Mr.
Cobden’s death, April 3, 1865._

DISRAELI