Chapter X: Career (2)

[125] Of the many passages that may be read in this connection, including that fine ironical one of the Feast of Tabernacles in _Tancred_, paralleled by that about “Moses Lump” in Heine, and the telling chapter in the _Life of Lord George Bentinck_, I will only cite one less familiar from _Alroy_: “... All was silent: alone the Hebrew prince stood, amid the regal creation of the Macedonian captains. Empires and dynasties flourish and pass away; the proud metropolis becomes a solitude, the conquering kingdom even a desert; but Israel still remains, still a descendant of the most ancient kings breathed amid these royal ruins, and still the eternal sun could never arise without gilding the towers of living Jerusalem.” This (with its after-irony of “Alroy’s” seizure by the Kourdish bandits) may be compared with the satire in which Disraeli encountered Mr. Newdegate’s appeals to “prophecy:” “... They have survived the Pharaohs, they have survived the Cæsars, they have survived the Antonines and the Seleucidæ, and I think they will survive the arguments of the right honourable member....” Mr. Morley tells that Mr. Gladstone said that Disraeli asserted that only those nations that behaved well to the Jews prospered. Disraeli, in saying so, however, only repeated a _dictum_ of Frederick the Great.

[126] “Say what they like,” so “Herbert” in _Venetia_, “there is a spell in the shores of the Mediterranean Sea which no others can rival. Never was such a union of natural loveliness and magical associations! On these shores have risen all that interests us in the past--Egypt and Palestine, Greece, Rome, and Carthage, Moorish Spain and feudal Italy. These shores have yielded us our religion, our arts, our literature, and our laws. If all that we have gained from the shores of the Mediterranean was erased from the memory of man, we should be savages.”

[127] It was translated into Greek, as _Alroy_ was into Hebrew.

[128] He mentions it both in his _Home Letters_ and in _Tancred_ as to be acquired by England.

[129] In 1878, Disraeli, after emphasising the Sultan’s friendliness to Greece and the value of a Græco-Turk _entente_ as a bar to “Pan-Slavic monopoly,” said: “... No prince, probably, that has ever lived has gone through such a series of catastrophes. One of his predecessors commits suicide; his immediate predecessor is subject to a visitation even more awful. The moment he ascends the throne, his ministers are assassinated. A conspiracy breaks out in his own palace, and then he learns that his kingdom is invaded, ... and that his enemy is at his gates; yet with all these trials, ... he has never swerved in ... the feeling of a desire to deal with Greece in a spirit of friendship.... He is apparently a man whose ... impulses are good, ... and where impulses are good, there is always hope.”

[130] _Cf._ his _Life of Lord George Bentinck_, p. 170.

[131] This was the speech in which Disraeli styled himself as not only a devoted parliamentarian, but “a gentleman of the Press.”

[132] Disraeli always maintained that the expulsion of Louis Philippe was the act of the secret societies, and not that of the French nation. He had reason to know. His letters in 1848 are full of gloom regarding the outlook in Europe. So were Carlyle’s.

[133] _Life of Lord George Bentinck_ (1852).

[134] “... The end of their system ... is the glory of the empire and the prosperity of the people.”

[135] Disraeli was always careful to distinguish between “revolution”--a permanent upheaval, and “insurrection”--a transitory outburst. Thus he expressly terms the continental movements of 1848, “insurrections.”

[136] Though published in 1836, it was written considerably earlier.

[137] Explaining, in 1835, his phrase that “the Whigs had grasped the bloody hand of O’Connell,” Disraeli said: “I mean that they had formed an alliance with one whose policy was hostile to the preservation of the country, who threatens us with a dismemberment of the empire, which cannot take place without a civil war.”

[138] _Cf._ the “passionate carelessness” in “the old state of affairs” of “this experimental chapter in our history” in the speech of March, 1869. On the “Maynooth Grant” question, also, he observed, in 1846, that the boons offered to the Roman Catholics were, that “two should sleep in a bed instead of three.”

[139] Eight years before, Disraeli had written in the trenchant slap-dash of his _Runnymede Letters_: “... Then, Ireland must be tranquillised. So I think. Feed the poor and hang the agitators. That will do it. But that’s not your way. It is the _destruction_ of the English and Protestant interest that is the Whig specific for Irish tranquillity.”

[140] He was alluding to Lord Derby’s earlier efforts. And again, in another speech: “... The principles of our policy were, first, to create and not destroy; and, secondly, to acknowledge that you could not in any more effectual way strengthen the Protestant interest than by doing justice to the Roman Catholics.”

[141] He pointed out that England experienced both Norman and Dutch conquests; and that if Cromwell conquered Ireland, he conquered England too.

[142] “... Fenianism now is not rampant; we think we have gauged its lowest depths, and we are not afraid of it” (Speech, April 3, 1868). As regards coercion, he always maintained that proved sedition alone justified it.

[143] He wrote that the question of the Church in Ireland was one totally without the pale of modern politics. His programme also at the dissolution breathed not a word on the subject.

[144] Rogers is mentioned in the very young Disraeli’s _Infernal Marriage--“The Pleasures of Oblivion_. The poet, apparently, is fond of his subject.”

[145] He lost his life in restoring Ely Cathedral. He designed a portion of Belgrave Square. When Disraeli was at last returned to Parliament, he wrote to his sister, “So much for Uncle G. and his ‘maddest of mad acts.’”

[146] He mentions several less familiar among the ancients. For instance, John of Padua in _Endymion_.

[147] In a letter of the late ’forties to his sister, he says with surprise that Croker (who disclaimed having read it) should have greeted him with effusion. In the same correspondence he repeats a _mot_ that the two most disgusting things in life--because you cannot deny them--are Warrender’s wealth, and Croker’s talents.

[148] When they met, Sir Walter treated him with cordiality; nevertheless, in one of his late letters he styles him “_un vieux crapaud_.”

[149] In 1761 he was even bankrupt. _Cf._ British Museum. Add. MS. 36,191, f. 8.

[150] Theodore Hook is the original of “Lucian Gay” in _Coningsby_.

[151] His acquaintance seems to have been made through “Platonist Taylor,” who gave literary symposia.

[152] In Spain he rescued a lady from robbers. On the Ægean he armed and drilled the crew against pirates. In Palestine, with difficulty and courage, he forced his way into the Mosque of Omar. In Egypt a pacha asked him to draft a constitution.

[153] _Cf._ British Museum Add. MS. 34,616, f. 45. I have referred to this in Chapter I.

[154] “Sure you were to find yourself surrounded by celebrities, and men were welcomed there if they were clever, before they were famous, which showed it was a house that regarded intellect, and did not seek merely to gratify its vanity by being surrounded by the distinguished.”--_Coningsby._

[155] _Vivian Grey._

[156] He liked to descant on the fast-fading and now vanished political Salon. That of “Lady St. Julians,” who “was not likely to forget her friends,” will be recalled by perusers of _Sybil_. In a Glasgow speech--recently revived by an evening journal--he praised, with admiration, Lady Palmerston’s, where diplomatists, at loggerheads with the minister, could meet him in the neutral zone of his gifted wife’s catholic hospitality.

[157] “Great as might have been the original errors of Herbert ... they might, in the first instance, be traced rather to a perverted view of society than of himself.”

[158] Byron also figures in _Ixion_. “All is mystery, and all is gloom, and ever and anon, from out the clouds a star breaks forth and glitters, and that star is Poetry.”

[159] This recalls us to the ’thirties. In a letter to his sister he mentions the wineglass shape as a new receptacle for champagne.

[160] It may, however, refer to a certain Lady Sykes.

[161] There is another similar passage so early as in _Popanilla_, which says that “... there were those who paradoxically held all this Elysian morality was one of great delusion, and that this scrupulous anxiety about the conduct of others arose from a principle, not of _Purity_, but _Corruption_. The woman who is “talked about,” these sages would affirm, is generally virtuous....” But the allusion may here be to Queen Caroline.

[162] _Coningsby._

[163] _Venetia_; _The Young Duke_.

[164] _Ibid._

[165] _Ibid._

[166] The brilliant Mr. T. P. O’Connor, in the first edition of a “Biography” (which, perhaps, now he regrets), troubled himself to search out and enumerate the writs out against Disraeli in the early ’thirties. Most of his debts were for elections and “backing” his friends’ bills. From friends he never borrowed; always from “Levison’s.” _Vivian Grey_ was originally written to defray a debt.

[167] Levison offers the required advance, £700 in cash, £800 in coals. The captain expostulates, and is answered: “Lord! my dear Captin, £800 worth of coals is a mere nothink. With your connection you will get rid of them in a morning. All you have got to do ... is to give your friends an order on us, and we will let you have cash at a little discount.... Three or four friends would do the thing.... Why, ’tayn’t four hundred chaldron, Captin.... Baron Squash takes ten thousand of us every year; but he has such a knack; _he gits the clubs to take them_.”

[168] It was written 1830-31.

[169] This quality is noticeable in his descriptions: Jerusalem at noon--“A city of stone in a land of iron with a sky of brass.” Seville--“Figaro in every street, Rosina on every balcony.” _Cf._ p. 304.

[170] It will be recalled that in opposing the Burials Bill, which he treated with respect, Disraeli, after expounding the parish rights in the churchyard, said, “I must confess that, were I a Dissenter contemplating burial, I should do so with feelings of the utmost satisfaction.”

[171] _Cf._ _The Infernal Marriage_--“Are there any critics in Hell?” “Myriads,” rejoined the ex-King of Lydia. There is a kindred remark in one of Landor’s Dialogues.

[172] From Swift, however.

[173] See his “Literary Character; or, The History of Men of Genius.”

[174] One of the best is the invective against the collapse of Peel’s “sliding scale:”--“... Of course the Whigs will be the chief mourners; they cannot but weep for their innocent, though it was an abortion. But ours was a fine child. Who can forget how its nurse dandled and fondled it? ‘What a charming babe! Delicious little thing! So thriving! Did you ever see such a beauty for its years?’ And then the nurse, in a fit of patriotic frenzy, dashes its brains out, and comes down to give master and mistress an account of this terrible murder. The nurse too, a person of a very orderly demeanour, not given to drink, and never showing any emotion, except of late when kicking against protection.”

[175] The late Duke of Abercorn.

[176] Of his verse I have not treated. No reader, however, of his fine sonnet on the Duke of Wellington, inscribed in the Stowe album, or of the wistful lyric addressed from the Ægean to his family in the _Home Letters_, or of the “Bignetta” rondel in the _Young Duke_, with its Heinesque close, or even of “Spring in the Apennines” from _Venetia_, can doubt his genuine gift for poetry and metre.

[177] “The art of poetry was to express natural feelings in unnatural language.”--_Contarini._

[178] In five volumes. Its original dedication ran:--

“To the Best and Greatest of Men.
He for whom it is intended will accept and appreciate the compliment,
Those for whom it is not intended will do the same.”

[179] _Vivian Grey._

[180] _Contarini Fleming._

[181] _Venetia._

[182] _Cf._ Bolingbroke’s “Compare the situations without comparing the characters.”

[183] This idea was emphasised by Bolingbroke.

[184] Hume’s election support, the challenge of O’Connell, the cultivation of Chandos, the “Canning” episode, the surrender of “protection,” and the delay in producing the Indian despatches, respectively.

[185] Notably in 1855.

[186] This is told in one of Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff’s “Diaries.”

[187] It is noticeable, as regards the habitual recurrence of his phrases, that in his early letters he always nicknames this first illness “the enemy,” the same as he used to his physicians in his last. His early ill health quickened his continual sympathy with suffering. No better instance could be read than his speech at the opening of the Hospital for Consumption, with his beautiful references to Jenny Lind, as song ministering to sorrow.

[188] At Berlin Bismarck said of him, “Disraeli _is_ England.” His translated works were, and I believe are, read widely abroad.

INDEX

Addington, 82

Addison, 286

Afghanistan, 215 _et seq._ and _n._ 1

Ali Pacha, 271

America, on primitive and Puritans, 250;
“landed” democracy, 67, 91, _n._ 1, 246, 251;
Canadian “retaliation” on, 136, _n._ 1;
Church, 148-152, 204, 244;
Disraeli’s discernment regarding, 48, 234, 246-247;
civil war would transform colonial into imperial spirit, 247-250;
Anglophobia, his wise distinctions as to, 250-253;
Fenianism, insight regarding, 253-256;
the negro difficulty, 251;
manners, 283;
Disraeli on marriage in, 287;
manners, 283

Antonelli, 175

Austen, Jane, 302, 305

Austin, Mrs., 10, 23, 31, 270

Austria, 208, 226, 240;
Disraeli’s attitude towards, 241, 291

Baring, Thomas, 269

Basevi, George, 269

----, Nathaniel (alluded to), 269

Baumer (valet), (alluded to), 26

Beaumarchais, 309

Bentinck, Lord G., 41, _n._ 1, 42, _n._ 1, 304

Berlin Congress, 45, 217, 227, 231, 235, 239;
Disraeli at, 326, _n._ 1

Bismarck, Prince, 45, 241, 326, _n._ 1

Blessington, Lady, 47, 271, _n._ 2;
Disraeli on, 277 and notes

Bliss, Dr. (antiquarian), 269

Bolingbroke, Lord, 3;
Disraeli’s clue, 11, 24, 25, _n._ 1, 46, 51, _n._ 2, 72, 83,
_n._ 2;
Utrecht Treaty, 129, 130, 172, _n._ 2;
ideas of monarchy--their influence on Disraeli, 194-198, 203,
_n._ 2, 206, 234, 259

Borthwick, 125

Bowring, Sir J., 221

Brandes, 9

Bright, John, 98, 109, (1879) 206;
and Gladstone, 207-208;
his tribute to Disraeli, 247

British Columbia (1858), 200

Brontës, the, 301

Brooks, Shirley, 25, _n._ 1

Brougham, Lord, 51

Browning, R., 313

Bryce, Rt. Hon. J., 9, 247

Buckingham, Duke of, 271

Bulgaria and Eastern Roumelia, 225, 226 _et seq._;
the two portions only repieced through the “autonomy” implanted by
Disraeli in one of them, 227

Bulwer, Sir H., 43, _n._

Burke, Edmund, 3, 25, 44, _n._, 46, 55, 67, 72, 83, _n._ 2, 194,
198, 203, _n._ 2, 280

Burney, Frances, 268

Byron, Lord, 47, 183, 270, 275;
Disraeli on, 276;
in _Ixion_, 276, _n._ 1;
“Cadurcis,” 293, 321;
quoted, 15

Canada, 136, _n._ 1, 137, 200 and _n._ 2, 206, _n._ 1, 247, 250

Canning, 3, 25;
dedication to, 48, 55, 195, 198

Cape, the, 201, 213

Carlyle, Thomas, 34, 35, 58, 125, 126;
identity of ideas with Disraeli’s, 62, 77, 85-92, 119,
238, _n._ 1;
picturesque, 303;
style, 313

Carnarvon, Lord, 213

Caroline, Queen, 24, _n._ 4, 277, _n._ 2

Castlereagh, Lord, “solidarity of Europe,” 209

Cervantes, 293

Chartism, 11, 61, 87, 106;
Disraeli’s sympathy with Chartists in 1840, 113;
in 1852 ... 26, _n._ 1

Chatham, Lord, 3;
Disraeli on, 24, 74, 195, 200;
empire, 208

China, 221, 234

Church, 69, 70, 90;
one of the problems, 1830-40 ... 113, 125;
and “Labour,” 126, 127, 129;
Disraeli’s historical and social ideas on Church and Theocracy,
145-156;
Anglicanism and Puritanism, 149, 152-155;
undoing of national Church a disaster for Nonconformists, 153-154;
attitude to latter, 163-165;
science, materialism, indifferentism, “higher” criticism,
rationalism, 156-158, 165-166;
Ritualism, 170;
education (_q.v._), 167-169;
discipline, 169-170;
Romanism, 171-178;
“The great house of Israel,” 179;
“Corybantic Christianity,” 174;
Radicalism, Liberalism, and Romanism, 175, (1836) 184;
Irish, 262-266

Churchill, Lord Randolph, 286

Clanricarde, Lady, 295

Clay, J., 270

Cobbett, 105

Cobden, R., 34;
and Gladstone, 40, _n._ 2, 86, 238

Coleridge, S. T., 125

Colonies, 32, 49, 51;
Disraeli’s early interest in, 199;
federations and constitutions, 201;
critical state of home feeling regarding, 1839-53, 201;
effect of democracy on, 202;
Disraeli’s important pronouncements regarding, 203-206;
Gladstone’s and Bright’s policy contrasted, 207 _et seq._;
self-government, 207-214;
and America, 250-252

Copley, Sarah, 22, 270

Cowper, W. (poet), quoted, 13;
empire, 208, 245

Croker, 269 and _n._ 4

Cromwell, Oliver, 3;
republican theocracy, 149, 180;
Ireland, 261

Currie, Lady, 29

Dante, theocracy, 147

Davison, Mr., letter to (quoted), 272

Denmark, 213, _n._ 1, 235, 239

Derby, Lord, 14, (1852) 25, _n._ 1, 39, 41, _n._ 2, 136-138, (1852
and 1855) 191, _n._ 1;
on Russian methods, 226;
Ireland, 260, _n._ 1

Dickens, Charles, 289;
romance, 302

Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield [and _see_ Carlyle,
Colonies, Empire, Reform Bill, America, Ireland, and Foreign
Policy], his idea of Conservatism, 5-8, 39, 204;
a poet and artist, 11, 36;
his early surroundings, 16-18, 268-272;
unique phases of earliest youth, 16, 18, 275, 309-312, 321-325;
distinction between wish for influence and for position, 12;
his mission, 5-7, 12, 49-52, 56, 111, 119, 210;
regrets Lord Derby’s temerity then, as much as his timidity in the
_gran’ rifuto_ of 1855 ... 191, _n._, 213, _n._;
indisposition to take office, 1852 ... 14;
never opportunist: courted unpopularity, _ib._;
“national” attitude, 19, 47, 48, 49, 55, 56, 66, 68, 84,
191, _n._, 210;
responsibility and privilege, 7, 13, 95, 98, 107, 144, 210;
utterances to be viewed successively, 20;
described in youth, 22-25;
described in age, 25-27;
debt, 24, 281-282;
gambling, 282;
contradictions in, 46, 47;
reconciliation of, 43, 293;
illness, 23, 311, 324, 325;
love of flowers and forestry, 26;
light and books, _ib._;
influence with Queen, 29;
and art, 19, 30;
manners, 31;
love of London, 31, 307-308;
vigilance, 32, 246;
generosity, 34, 35;
contrasted with Gladstone, 35-42;
scholarship, 36;
love of beauty, 17;
his longsighted plan, 39;
land, labour, democracy, and empire, _ib._;
principles and measures, _ib._;
duties of opposition, 40;
wish for strong government, _ib._, 42, 50, 210, 252;
dislike of bores, 40, 44, 224;
“nationality and race,” 45, 225;
“detachment,” 46;
influence of eighteenth century on, _ib._;
“predisposition,” _ib._;
religious ideas, _ib._;
“feudal and federal principles,” 51, 63;
change and “obsolete opinions,” 51, 81;
French Revolution theories, 58-68, 83, 85, 97, 145;
historical outlook, 73-77, 81-83;
revolutions, 47, 72;
republican plots, 77;
dread of plutocracy, 6, _n._ 3, 77, 111, 115, 129, 202;
universal suffrage, 77-80, 98-104;
gentlemen should prove leaders, 80;
conduct in 1852 ... 39, 40;
store set by landed interest, 68, 71, 86, 95, 114, 135;
languages, 241;
classics, 249;
middle classes, 83, 105, 123-124, 134-135, 251;
efficacy of Parliament (1848), 87;
his principles of representation, 94;
taxation and, 94;
income-tax and middle class, 96;
views prophecies as to social effects of Peel’s changes, 97;
uniform wish throughout for industrial franchise, 98 _et seq._;
“free aristocracy,” 49, 98, 118, 119;
adopted rating principle of Russell in 1854 ... 100;
the consistent train which led to his measure of 1867, 99-101;
counties and boroughs, 100, 104;
wanted democracy as an element, not a class, 101;
“population” and property standards, 101-104;
wish for variety in representation, 98, 104;
discontent and disaffection, 106;
summary of his ideal for making Toryism “national,” 107;
“household democracy,” 109;
Disraeli’s long consistency, 108-110;
lifelong attitude to Labour, 112-129;
problems of 1830-40 ... 113;
Disraeli’s social outlook on “condition of England” and economical
problems, 114 _et seq._;
upshot of his sympathy with labour (_q.v._), 116 _et seq._, 118,
119;
vision of a vanishing industrialism, 119;
the spirit of chivalry applicable to labour, 122;
“saviours of society,” 122;
and “Anglicanism,” 126;
he breaks up “Young England” (1845) by pressing home their Church
convictions, 128;
parochial life more important even than political, 127;
his views of “Free Trade” (_q.v._), 131-142;
influence on prices and wages of precious metals, 131,
_n._ 1, 133, 140;
“Reciprocity,” 129, 131, 138, 140;
attitude on Corn Laws, 131-135;
distribution of labour and purchasing power, 113, 131;
Disraeli’s probable attitude towards Mr. Chamberlain’s present
fiscal scheme adumbrated: wholesale plans, retail
applications, 135-141;
consumer and producer, 136;
social, political, spiritual aspects of _Church_ (_q.v._) viewed
from Disraeli’s theocratic bias, 145-179;
Puritanism and Theocracy, 149, 151;
and Ireland, 200;
Aryan and Semitic conceptions, 145 _et seq._;
Anglican Church “part of England,” “one of the few great
things left,” 153;
society, inconceivable without religion, 155;
part played by this attitude in his novels, 155-156;
and science, 156-159;
and revelation by races, 157, _n._ 1;
materialism, 158;
Disraeli’s beliefs, _ib._, 155;
State would lose by severance, 159-163;
“Atheism in domino,” 166;
“Man in masquerade,” 170;
not a “mystic,” 156;
attitude on education (_q.v._), 167-169;
discipline, 169, 170;
universities, 169;
his bias for _Monarchy_, 180-184;
and royal prerogative, 184, 189-192, and fully the whole of Ch. V.;
Royal Titles Bill, 193-194;
cheapness of monarchy, 192;
debt to Bolingbroke’s ideas, 195-198
_Colonies_ (_q.v._), Disraeli’s zeal and plans for, 198;
Disraeli’s attitude to “millstone” view investigated, 200-203;
“Peace at any price,” 207;
“timidity of capital,” 202;
power of instancing political precedent, 213, _n._ 1;
origin of his title, 44, _n._
_Empire_ (_q.v._ and _Foreign Policy_), temper of his imperialism,
209 _et seq._, 245;
principles of his policy illustrated, 210-214, 217-221;
Eastern policy considered, discussed, and illustrated, 222-236;
“the just influence of England,” 235;
diplomacy, 221-222;
Cyprus, 230;
his attitude to France (_q.v._), 235-239;
Germany (_q.v._), 240;
Austria and Italy (_q.v._), 241-243;
Poland, Greece (_q.v._), 243;
pronouncement on militarism with constitutional _forms_, 244;
his farewell to constituents sums up his lifelong aims, and
repeats the phrase, twice used, of his youth, 244-245;
England restored to her due European position, 227, 332;
European concert, 209, 230;
lasting results, 216, 227, 229, 230;
Bulgaria (_q.v._), Eastern Roumelia, and autonomy, 227
_America_ (_q.v._), early predictions, 48, 246-250;
“revolution” distinguished from “insurrection,” 247, _n._ 1;
must be treated as an imperial power affecting Europe, 234, 248;
the changes produced by her civil war, 248-249;
Disraeli alone recognised the significance of the war, 247;
his discerning treatment of Anglophobia, 250-253;
negro problem, 251;
Fenianism, its true character, 253-256, 261
_Ireland_ (_q.v._), Disraeli’s early sympathy, and great insight
into true difficulties of, 256, 261;
distinguishes discontent from rebellion, 261;
disestablishment and disendowment, 262-265
_Society_, attitude to, 31, 44;
early society around Disraeli, 268-272;
his idea of real, 273-277, 284-285;
love of purpose, 276;
social charity, 277;
love of contrasts, 277-278;
foibles, 278-279;
against social melancholy, 279;
conversation, 279-281;
debt, 281-282;
friendship and ailments, 281;
and trial, 288;
“Levison and the coals,” 282, _n._ 2;
the “Swells,” 283;
political society, 283;
salons, 274 and _n._ 1;
club loungers, 284;
domesticity, 284-285;
women, love, and marriage, 285-287;
dream-pictures, 287-288
_Wit and humour_ distinguished, 289;
nature of Disraeli’s--“a master of sentences,” 290;
retorts, _ib._;
aphorisms, 291-293;
phrases, 293;
similes, 292;
political pictures, 292, 294-295;
sense of ludicrous, 295-300;
pathetic irony illustrated, 300-301
_Romance and picturesqueness_, 301-308;
Disraeli’s romanticism, 302-304;
associative feeling and description, 290, _n._ 1, 304;
scenery and light, 305-307;
forms and sounds of trees, 306;
the marvellous, 307;
_love of and intimacy with London_, 307-308;
blemishes of style considered and explained, 309-331;
pathos, 309, 310;
mode of preparation, 313;
influence of the arts, 313-314;
critics, 291, 315;
_par excellence_ an imaginative fantastic, 313, 315;
character of his fancy, 290;
poetry, 304, 311, 323
_Ideas on career_, 316;
preparation and education (_q.v. sub-title_), 317;
second-hand adaptation, 318;
_action_, _ib._;
life true piety, not brooding on death, _ib._;
maxims, 319;
“aloofness,” 320;
“audacity,” 321;
sensitiveness and courage, 321;
idealism, 322;
reverie, _ib._;
industry, 326
_His own career_ (and see above);
earliest phases of, 322-325;
dividing lines and moot points of, adverted to, 319;
posthumous treatment by party, 325;
tributes to, by Gladstone, Salisbury, and Granville, 326;
character, 326
_Fiction_--earliest works, 23, and _n._ 1;
American pamphlet quoted, 48;
his _verse_, 340, _n._;
_his books quoted_, 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14;
on leisure, 32;
enthusiasm, 15;
characters in, _ib._, 17, 122, _n._ 1, 125, 129, 141,
274 and _n._ 1;
habit of transference, 16, 175, 210, 275, 277;
in _Alarcos_, 16, 17;
“predisposition” (real Toryism) and “education” (poets), 18, 19,
31;
_Vivian Grey_, 17, 32, 33, 44, 112, 117, 181, 270, 273, 275;
its effects, 275;
circumstances under which written, 309-310, 311, 323-324;
its original dedication, 312, _n._ 1, 315
Change and national character, 55, 56;
physical wants, 60;
man’s destiny, 59;
true aristocracy, 62;
“Equality” and Labour, 63, 64;
institutions and nationalism, 65, 68;
modern unoriginality, 69;
“Estates” of realm, 68 (_cf._ 72, 82, 93, 95, 97, 226);
“Marney” and dukeism, 75;
old Whigs and Tories, 81-82;
taxation, 82, _n._ 1;
Burke, _ib._, _n._ 2;
monopoly of power, _ib._, _n._ 3;
bigotry of philosophy, 83;
Reform Bill, 84, 91, 93, 94;
utilitarianism (_q.v._), 87, 88, 123;
towns, 115;
labour and leadership, _ib._;
House of Commons, 116;
labour, 118;
industry and industrialism, 119;
a “dawn” for the People, 120;
_laissez-faire_ (_Popanilla_), 123;
Milnes (_q.v._), 125;
Radicals for capital, 129;
_Young England_ (_q.v._), 130;
“Free exchange,” 142;
Theocracy, 145;
Church, 155;
and science, 156-163;
races instruments for special revelations, 157, _n._ 1;
scepticism, 160;
Ritualism, 170;
Catholicism, 171-178;
_Lothair_ analysed, 172-178;
monarchy, 180-185;
political change _per se_, evil, 183;
colonies, 199;
“un-English,” 203;
militarism, 244;
sympathy and empire, 217;
Semitism, 222, _n._ 1;
civilisation of Mediterranean, 223, _n._ 1;
Alfieri, 241;
Italy, 241-242;
Ireland, 258;
Fenianism, 255;
Rogers (_Infernal Marriage_), 269, _n._ 1;
architects, _ib._, _n._ 3;
Gore House, 271, _n._ 2;
society (_Infernal Marriage_), 273;
breeding (_Lothair_), (_Coningsby_), (_Sybil_), 274;
(_Venetia_), (_Vivian Grey_), (_Contarini Fleming_), 275;
Luttrell (_q.v._), 276;
D’Orsay (_q.v._), _ib._;
Byron (_q.v._), 276-277;
_Ixion_, _ib._;
Lady Blessington (_q.v._), (_Young Duke_), (_Popanilla_), 277;
(_Sybil_), _ib._;
(_Infernal Marriage_), _ib._;
startling contrasts, 278;
(_Popanilla_, _Ixion_, _Sybil_), _ib._;
foibles (_Popanilla_), _ib._;
(_Coningsby_, _Young Duke_, _Venetia_), 279;
(_Lothair_), 279;
conversation (_Young Duke_), 280;
(_Lothair_), 281;
debt (_Henrietta Temple_), 282;
gambling (_Vivian Grey_, _Young Duke_), _ib._;
“Swells,” (_Lothair_), 283;
political society (_Sybil_, _Endymion_, _Young Duke_), 283-284;
club loungers, civic dinners, 284;
home life (_Lothair_, _Venetia_), 284-285;
women (_Lothair_, _Coningsby_, _Henrietta Temple_, _Vivian
Grey_, _Contarini Fleming_), 285-287;
and marriage, friendship, 287-288;
_Wit, Humour, and Romance_, many passages, Ch. IX., _passim_;
impartiality (_Alroy_), 321;
_Correspondence and Letters_, 23, _n._ 4, 32, 131, _n._ 1, 271,
272, 324, _n._ 1, 325
_Pamphlets_ (and see “_Press_,” _The_)--_What is he?_ 1, 21, 33, 50;
and _Spirit of Whiggism_, _Runnymede Letters_, 50, 66, 95, 149,
_n._ 1, 197, 198;
_Crisis Examined_, 21, _n._ 1, 51;
_Letter to Lord Lyndhurst_, 51, 72, _n._ 2;
Whiggism, Republicanism, Jacobinism, 74, 75-77;
centralisation, _ib._, 93, 104;
reform, 92;
civil equality, 94;
public opinion, 106;
labour, 112;
Corn Laws, 131;
monarchy, 181, 184;
“national party,” 196
_Revolutionary Epick_ and Shelley, 47, 51, 68, 85;
labour, 112, 311
_Speeches_, 14, 38, 44, 50 (election address, 1832), 53;
Equality, 64-65;
Popular principles (1847), 69;
Social and national importance of landed interests, 71, 72, 95;
property and middle classes, 78-79;
agitators, 79, 80, 106;
importance of party system, 84, _n._ 1, 85, 86;
land, 86;
utilitarianism (_q.v._), 90 _et seq._;
triennial parliaments, 92, (1846) 97;
Reform speeches, (1848-59) 98-107, (1859) 101;
public opinion, 106;
ideal and national Toryism, 107;
“popular privileges” and “democratic rights,” 107;
Edinburgh (1867), 109;
Chartists (1840), 113;
Labour (1872-74), 116;
“Trustees of posterity,” _bis_, 123, 130;
anti-Erastianism, (1845) 128, (1848) _ib._;
labour and gold, 133;
Social ills and remedies of Free Trade, (1852) 135, (1879) 140;
reciprocity, 138-139;
social remedies (1872), 143;
Church, 149;
pledge for religious liberty, a benefit to Nonconformists, 153;
Dissenting “sacerdotalism” (1870), 154;
State would lose by severance from it of Church (1870), 159;
parish life (1860), 163;
Dissent, 164;
religious revival, 160;
rationalism (1861), 166;
education (1832, 1839, 1854, 1867, 1870, 1872), 167-169;
danger to State if the civil ecclesiastical powers, disunited,
collide, 161;
monarchy, (1872) 188-189, (1861) 194;
colonies (1848), 200, 234;
colonial empire, (1863) 204, (1872) 295;
imperialism, (1862) 210, (1855) _ib._;
“annexation,” (1879) 212-215, 216;
consideration for subject races and foreign powers, (1879)
217-221, (1856) 221, (1871) 228-229, (1860) 234-235,
(1853) 236, (1864) 237, (1858) 237-238, (1864) _ib._,
(1879) 239, (1878) 232, _n._ 1;
Burials Bill (1880), 290, _n._ 2;
diplomacy, (1860) 222, (1864) _ib._;
Russia’s lawful ambition, 229;
Berlin Treaty, 231, 235;
“Pan-Slavism,” 232;
“balance of power,” (1864) 234, (1870) 240;
interference, 210, 235, 240;
humanity (1876), 225;
actuating principles of his outlook (repeating his earliest
pamphlets), (1876) 244, (1881) 221;
foresight as to America (1863), 247-248;
speeches of discernment on America (1856), 248, 249;
American Anglophobia, (1865) 250-251, (1871) 251-253;
negroes, 251-252;
Fenianism (1872), 254;
_Ireland_, (1843) 256, (1844) 256-258;
Maynooth, (1846) 257, _n._ 1, (1858) 260, _n._ 1, (1868) 259,
261, (1869) 260;
his four great speeches, (1868-69) 264-266, (1869) 260,
(1871) 247, (1872) 254;
Peel (1846), 278;
_Wit_, (1845-49) 292, (1833, 1846, 1859, 1860, 1876) 295
“_Democracy_,” attitude to, 7, 33, 39, 45, 47, 48, 49, 53,
and Chap. II. _passim_, 58, 66, 69, 83, 88, _n._ 1, 91, 92,
and _n._ 1, 93, 95, 97, 98-111, 117, 137, 201;
in 1884 ... 100, 107-108;
a true sovereignty, 119;
America, 251
_Education_, 11, 97, 98, 100, 101-106, 154, 159, 167-169,
317, 318, 323
_Qualities_--generally, 26, 32;
ambition (its nature), 11, 12, 17, 323, and Ch. X. _passim_;
self-control, 37, 321;
aristocratic perception, popular sympathies, 49;
buoyancy, 32;
carelessness of money, 27;
chivalry, 29, 286;
courage, 25, 321;
eloquence, 36;
philippics, 41, _n._ 2;
foresight and insight, 32, 35, 54, 96, 97, 115, 117, 118,
133-135, 140, _n._ 1, 199, 207, 240, 247, 249, 266, 284,
294, 321;
friendship, 29;
genius (“auto-suggestive”), 15, 16;
gratitude, 27, 34, 325;
humour, 37, and Ch. IX. _passim_;
idealism, 16, 17, 322, and Ch. VIII., IX., and X. _passim_;
imagination, 3, 52, 209, 221, and Ch. VIII., IX., and
X. _passim_;
independence (even when unpopular), 14, and Ch. VIII. and
X. _passim_;
individuality, 13, 19, 46, 49, 275, and Ch. VIII. and
X. _passim_;
intensity, 16, 321, 322;
irony, Ch. IX. _passim_, 300-301;
loneliness, 35, 284, and Ch. X. _passim_;
loyalty and friendship, 29, 288;
magnanimity, 15;
instances of, 34, 213, _n._ 1;
mystery, 44, 238, _n._ 1, 323;
parliamentary, 32, 35, 37, 38, 39, 283, 292, 294-295;
patience, 25, 316;
reserve, 35, 226, 284;
reverie, 32, 322;
romance, 18, and Ch. IX. _passim_;
sense of destiny and a mission, 12, 18, 46, 59, 310, and Ch. IX.
and X. _passim_;
sympathy with labour, 26, 39, 48, 60, 61, 64;
his view of industrial franchise, 98-107;
capacities of working classes, 105, 111, 112-129;
fruits of, 116-117, 138;
tenacity, 35, 36;
will, 11, 14, 25, 40, 43, 47, 316; wit, 33, 43, 44;
considered fully, Ch. IX.
_Defects_, 15, 31, 35, 42, 43, 209, 240, 304, 309-313, 319, 321;
characterised, 321, 322;
style, 203, and Ch. IX. _passim_
_Anecdotes_ of, Ch. I. _passim_, 16, _n._, 135, 241, 254, 256,
268-272, 279, 281, 286, 287, 288, 290-291, 300, 319, 321,
323, 325, 326, _n._

Disraeli, Benjamin (Lord Beaconsfield’s grandfather), 16,
270, and _n._ 1

----, Mrs. (Lady Beaconsfield), 10;
Disraeli’s tributes to, 27;
stories of, 28, 29, 30, 35, 268, 286, 288

Disraeli, Isaac, 23;
letter of (alluded to), 24, _n._ 1;
influence on his son, 46, 172;
phrases, 203, _n._ 2;
his surroundings, 268-271;
advice to his son, 275;
phrases, 293, 300

----, Sarah, 10, 17, _n._, 22;
her influence, 324

D’Orsay, Count, 268;
Disraeli on, 276;
“Count Mirabel,” 277, 291

Douce, F. (antiquarian), 269

Downman, H., 269

----, J., 269

Doyle, 124

Dundas, Sir D., 44

Durham, Lord, 14, _n._ 1

Egypt, 208, 221;
Suez Canal, 222

Eldon, Lord, 5, 50, 82, 259

Eliot, George, 302

Empire, 49, 53, 54, 92, 161, 193, 205-207, 209-210, 212-245

Ewald, Mr., 9, 207

----, Professor, 146

Faber, 124;
“St. Lys,” 126

Falconieri, Tita, 24, _n._ 2, 270

Foreign Policy [and _see_ various countries, including Poland];
Disraeli’s principles of, 210-216, 217, 231, 234, 235;
temper of his imperialism, 193, 205, 207, 209, 212-245;
pacificatory, 210, 214, 216, 221, 235;
principles of diplomacy, 209, 222

Fox, Charles, 40, 213, _n._ 1

France, 45, 66, 173, _n._ 1;
Disraeli’s desire for _entente_ with, and general policy
towards, 236-239;
and Italy, 239;
and Eastern question, _ib._

Frederick the Great (quoted), 223, _n._ 1

“Free Trade,” 36, 86, _n._ 1, 96, 97, 112, 114, 131-141;
Disraeli’s probable attitude towards Mr. Chamberlain’s present
fiscal schemes, illustrated by Disraeli’s own pronouncements,
135-140;
colonies a set-off to urban effects, _cf._ 202, 213, _n._ 1;
Ireland, 260

French Revolution, theories of, 2, 46, 58-69

Frere, Sir Bartle, 212-215

Frith, Mr., R. A., 28

Froude, 9

Garnett, Dr. R., 47

George III., 74, 187, 197

---- IV., 181; society under, 272

Germany, 45;
theology, 166;
Disraeli’s attitude towards, 240;
discerns purport of the war, 1870, _ib._

Gladstone, Right Hon. W. E., 34;
compared with Disraeli, 35-42, 55, 98;
and Cobden, 40, _n._ 2;
and Oswald Millbank, 122, _n._ 1;
Catholic University Bill, 169, _n._ 1;
favours Canadian “retaliation” on America, 136, _n._ 1;
prerogative, 190-191;
and Bright, 207-208;
precedent, 213, _n._ 1;
corrected, 128, _n._ 1, 172, 184, 187, 222, _n._ 1, 258;
his praise, 256, 262, 264;
on Disraeli’s wit, 295;
alluded to, 295;
on indifference to world, 318;
tribute of, to Disraeli, 326;
inconsistencies in tactics, 36, _n._ 1

Goethe, 15, 63, 157

Gordon, General, 208

Graham, Sir J., 34, 41, 236

Graves, Mr., and Bradenham, 24, _n._ 1

Grant-Duff, Sir Mountstuart, 34

Granville, Lord, 295;
tribute of, to Disraeli, 326

Greece, 224-225, 226, 232, _n._ 1, 243

Greenwood, Mr. Frederick, 43, _n._ 1

Grey, Lord, 21, 74, 109, 110

Guthrie, Dr., 43

Hallam, A., 124

Hamid, Abdul, 227, 232, _n._ 1, 233

Hartington, Lord (Duke of Devonshire), on Disraeli, 12, 254

Hatherley, Lord, 44

Hayward, Abraham (critic), 17, _n._ 2, 38

Heine, Heinrich, 9;
on the People, 121;
humour, 296

Herbert, Sidney, 39

Hook, Theodore, 270

Hope, “Anastasius,” 124

----, Mr. Beresford, 290

Hudson, Sir J., 213

Hume (reformer), 77, 94;
refuted on taxation theory, 97, 98, 103, 105, 112, 201

India, 193, 200;
Disraeli’s policy for, 215, 216;
the Mutiny, 217-221, 225, 232;
his Eastern policy, Indian, 232, and _passim_ throughout Ch. VI.

Ireland, 33, 84, 127, 132, 133, 175;
Disraeli’s early sympathy with, 256;
follows Pitt’s policy, _ib._;
his wonderful early speeches on the real question, 256-258;
interpreted by later and much later utterances, 258-260;
and Disraeli’s view of coercion, 258, _n._ 1;
wish for strong government and an executive in touch with the
people, 258, 260;
variety of employment, 261;
“conquered people,” 261, _n._ 1;
Fenianism (_see_ America), _ib._, _n._ 2;
progress from 1844 to 1868, 260-262;
disestablishment and disendowment of Church, 262-266;
Disraeli’s warning, 1881 ... 266;
policy “to create, not to destroy,” 259, 261;
against “identity of institutions,” 257;
land question, 265, 267;
pauperism, 260

Italy, 45, 226;
Disraeli’s attitude towards, 241-243;
his private sympathy checked by public policy, 241-242

Jamaica, 201

Johnson, Dr., 280

Jowett, Benjamin, cited on Eastern question, 230;
on Disraeli, 321

Kandahar, 208, 215 _et seq._ and _n._ 1

Kebbel, Mr., 9;
quoted, 129

Kenealy, Dr., 34

Lamb, Lady Caroline, 276

Lamington, Lord (Baillie Cochrane), 27, 124, 125

Landor, W. Savage, 291, _n._ 1

Lassalle, Ferdinand, 122

Layard, Sir Henry, 23, 224, 270

Leighton, Lord, 203

Lewis, Wyndham, Mr., 28

Lind, Jenny, Disraeli’s reference to, 324, _n._ 1

Liverpool, Lord, 83, _n._ 3, 132

Lockhart, 23, _n._ 4, 271

Londonderry, Lady, 271

Louis Philippe, King, 10, 236, 237, 238, _n._ 1

Luttrell, H., Disraeli on, 276

Lyndhurst, Lord, 22, 51, 268, 270, 288

Lytton, Sir E. Bulwer, 4, 22, 203, 270;
romance, 301

Lytton, Lord, 221

Macaulay, Lord, 179, 209, 217, 256, 268

Malmesbury, Lord, 201

Manchester School, 50, _n._ 1, 200;
and _see_ Utilitarianism

Manin, Daniel, 241, 320

Manners, Janetta, Lady John, 25

----, Lord John, 124, 126, 127

Manning, Cardinal, 177

Mario (_née_ White), Madame, “Theodora,” 47, _n._ 1

Marx, Karl, 122

Mathews, C., 270

Melbourne, Lord, 14, _n._ 1, 198

Meredith, Mr. (Sarah Disraeli’s _fiancé_), 270

Metternich, 221, _n._ 1, 242

Meynell, Mr. W., 20

Midhat, Pacha, 227

Millais, Sir John, 34

Milnes, Monckton R. (Lord Houghton), 124, 125, 126

Milton, John;
political theocracy, 150-151;
“Venetian Constitution” and Dutch models, 151

Molesworth, 201

Mommsen, Professor, 66

Monarchy, 70, 84, 90, 96, 97;
Disraeli’s attitude to, 182;
prerogative, 184, 189-192;
many-sided emblem, 191;
King, the member for Empire, 192;
“Empress of India,” not bastard imperialism, 193-194;
with Church, make for civil order, 194

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 27

Montaigne, 296

Monteith, 124

Moore, T., 269

Morier, Sir R., 224

----, “Zohrab,” 270

Morley, Right Hon. J. (quoted), 31, 34, 35, 41, 52, 222, _n._ 1

Murphy, Serjeant, 125

Murray, John, 23, 268

Napier, editor, 23, _n._ 4, 270

Napoleon III., 10, 122, 236, 238, 271

Newdegate, Mr., 222, _n._ 2

Newman, Cardinal, 6, _n._ 3, 170, 172

New Zealand, constitution for, 201

Nietzsche, F., 59, 60

North, Lord, 213, _n._ 1

O’Connell, Daniel, 172, _n._ 1, 255 and _n._ 1

O’Connor, Feargus, 26, _n._ 1

----, Mr. T. P., 282, _n._ 1

Osborne, Bernal, 33

Owen, Robert, 122

Padwick, Mr., 27

Palmerston, Lord, 34, 200, 209, 210, 211, 213, _n._ 1, 222, _n._ 1,
227, 240, 242

----, Lady, 274, _n._

Peel, Sir Robert, 4, 8, 14, 25, 38;
Disraeli’s real design in his overthrow, 40, 41, 48, 50, 56, 64,
83, _n._, 96;
disjointed labour, 112-114;
his beneficial reduction of tariff, 113, 131, _n._ 1;
“compensations” to land, 136;
(1843) in favour of preference to Canada and Canadian “retaliation,”
_ib._, _n._ 1;
and Church education, 165, 167;
notes on monarchy, 185-187;
colonies, 201;
empire, 208;
his prophecy as to Disraeli, 217, 245;
alluded to, 278, 291, 293, 304

“Peelites,” 33, 35, _n._ 1, 39, 53, 295

Penn, Mr., 269

Perceval, 82

Persia, 207

Pitt, W., 5;
young Disraeli’s example, 24, 74, 129, 256, 259

Poland, Disraeli’s sympathy with, 243

Pope, A., 290, 307

Powles, Mr., 23 _n._ 2

Pozzo, 222, _n._ 1, 271

_Press, The_ (Disraeli’s organ, 1853-59), 25, _n._ 1;
quoted, 7, _n._ 3, 33, _n._ 2, 39, 40, 53, 64, 181;
detached democracy, 202, 213, _n._ 1;
Turkey, 228;
political wit, 295

Prussia, 240

Pye (Laureate), 268

Reform Bill, 1832-36 ... 3, 8, 50, 51, _n._ 73, 77, 83;
effects of, 82-85, 89, 94, 98, 110, 116, 180, 184

---- ----, 1867, principles of, illustrated by former pronouncements,
78-80, 90 _et seq._, 94 _et seq._, 96, 98;
its drift and meaning, 107-111, 138, 262

_Representative_, The, 23, and _n._ 2

“Returns to Nature,” 59

Roebuck, N., 227

Rogers, S., 269, and _n._ 1, 293

Rowton, Lord, 9

Ruskin, J., quoted, 89, 303

Russell, Lord J., 14, _n._ 1, 34, 39, 40, 41, 56, 97, 98 (reform
scheme of 1854) 100, (1860) 105, 132, 169;
colonies and democracy, 202;
empire, 208, 211, 213, _n._ 1

Russia, 204, 208;
and India, 215-216;
newness of pretensions to Constantinople, 226, 229;
the patriarchate, _ib._;
Disraeli’s distinction between her “legitimate” and “illegitimate”
ambitions, 229;
his policy towards her, early indicated and long pursued, 228-234;
Pan-Slavism, 232;
dismemberment, 241

Salisbury, Lord, 209, 232;
tribute of, to Disraeli, 326

San Stefano, Treaty of, 227, 229

Savile, George (Halifax), 209

Savonarola, Theocracy, 147

Scott, Sir Walter, 23, _n._ 4, 28, 121, 126, 268, 269, 270,
_n._ 1., 302, 303

Selwyn, 274

Shaftesbury, Lord, 115;
alluded to, 294

Sheil, 4

Shelley, P. B., 16;
influence of, on Disraeli, 47, 223, _n._ 1;
Disraeli on, 275, _n._ 1;
alluded to, 293

Sheridans, the, 10, 271, 288, 296

Siddons, Mrs., 269

Soudan, 208, 215

South Africa, 137, 212-215

Southey, R., 269

Stafford, 125

Strangford, Lord, 10, 16, _n._ 1;
quoted, 62, 124

Sunderland, Lord, 73, 152

Swift, Jonathan, 6, _n._ 2, 18, 25, _n._ 1, 281, 290, 293,
_n._ 1, 296, 300

Sykes, Lady, 277, _n._ 1

Taylor (“Platonist”), 270, _n._

Tennyson, A., 124

Thackeray, 16, _n._ 2, 279, 297, 300, 302

Tocqueville, De, 7, 39, 66, 71;
on Church, 154;
monarchy, 180

Transvaal, 208, 214

Trelawny, 47

Turkey, Disraeli’s attitude and policy towards, 222-234;
Disraeli _not_ pro-Islam, 222-223;
his policy traditional, 224;
real facts of Turkish question in Europe, 226-228;
Cyprus, 232

Urquhart, Mr., and “Sidonia,” 122, 272

Utilitarianism, 1, 12, 18, 87-89, 112, 113, 114, 115, 123, 206

Victoria, Queen, 10, 29, (1837) 185, 187;
Royal Titles Bill, 193-194;
Indian language and India, 194, 220-221, 270

Villiers, Mr. C., 112

Voltaire, quoted by Disraeli, 158, _n._ 3;
influence, 290

Waldegrave, Frances, Lady, 288

Walewski, 238

Walpole, Horace, 290

----, Mr. Spencer, 32

----, Sir R., 73, 92, _n._ 1, 95, 132, 148, 152

Wellington, Duke of, 240, _n._ 1

Westbury, Lord, 44

Wetherell, 82

Whalley, Mr., 38

Whigs, “New” and “Old,” 78-83, 90 _et seq._, 96, 99, 132, 143, 184,
213, _n._ 1, 262

White, Sir W., 226, 233

Whittlestone (valet), 24, _n._ 2

William III., 3, 148

Williams, Mrs. (of Torquay), 10, 29

Wiseman, Cardinal, 175

Wood, Sir Charles, 320

Wyndham, Sir W., 80, 82, 259

“Young England,” 14, 48, 115;
fully considered, 123-130;
and Maynooth, 128;
“Sanitas sanitatum,” 128-129;
fruits of, 130

Zulu War, 212-215

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