Chapter XVII (1)

Retirement from office--Dignity in retreat--Hughenden--Lord
Beaconsfield as a landlord--Fondness for country
life--'Endymion'--Illness and death--Attempted estimate of Lord
Beaconsfield--A great man? or not a great man?--Those only great who
can forget themselves--Never completely an Englishman--Relatively
great, not absolutely--Gulliver among Lilliputians--Signs in 'Sybil'
of a higher purpose, but a purpose incapable of
realisation--Simplicity and blamelessness in private
life--Indifference to fortune--Integrity as a statesman and
administrator.

'Was man in der Jugend wünscht, davon hat man im Alter die Fülle' (What one desires in one's youth one has enough of in one's age).

Disraeli had won it all, all that to his young ambition had seemed the only object for which it was worth while to live. Yet he had gained the slippery height only, perhaps, to form a truer estimate of the value of a personal triumph. It was his to hold but for a moment, and then he fell, too late in life to retrieve another defeat. When the shadows lengthen and the sun is going down, earthly greatness fades to tinsel, and nothing is any longer beautiful to look back upon but the disinterested actions, many or few, which are scattered over the chequered career. Disraeli, like many other distinguished men, had to pay the penalty of his character. A fool may have his vanity satisfied with garters and peerages; Disraeli must have been conscious of their emptiness.

[Sidenote: FATE OF THE CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT]

When the result of the elections of 1880 was known he again accepted his fate, as Mr. Gladstone had done six years before, without waiting for the meeting of Parliament. He submitted with dignity, though with the fatal consciousness that at his age he could not hope to witness a reversal of the judgment upon him. He did not talk petulantly of retiring from politics. He took his place again as leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords, and showed no signs of weakened power. But he had always been impatient of the details of business, and his chief pleasure was now to retire to Hughenden, with or without companions, most frequently alone. For a fortnight together he would remain there in solitude, wandering through the park or through the Bradenham woods, which in his youth had been the scene of so many ambitions or moody meditations. His trees, his peacocks, his swans, his lake and chalk stream were sadly associated with the memories of his married life. He was so fond of his trees that he directed in his will that none of them should be cut down. He was on pleasant terms with his tenants and labourers; he visited them in their cottages, and was specially kind to old people and to little children. The 'policy of sewage,' with which he had been taunted as a Minister, was his practice as a landlord. No dust-heaps, or cesspools, or choked drains, or damp floors were to be seen among the Hughenden tenements. To such things he looked with his own eyes, and he said he never was so happy as when left to himself in these occupations.

Of his reflections at this period some may be found hereafter in the papers which he bequeathed to Lord Rowton. No particular traces appear in the last literary work which in his final leisure he contrived to accomplish. He had left 'Endymion' half finished when he took office in 1874; he went on with it when office had left him, perhaps because he had thought himself obliged to buy a house in London on retiring from Downing Street and wanted money.

There is nothing remarkable in 'Endymion' except the intellectual vivacity, which shows no abatement. It is in the style of his earlier novels, and has little of the serious thought which is so striking in 'Sybil' and 'Lothair.' There are the same pictures of London fashionable life and fashionable people, in the midst of them a struggling youth pushing his way in the great world, and lifted out of his difficulties, as he himself had been, by a marriage with a wealthy widow. As before many of the figures are portraits. Myra, the heroine, impatient, restless, ambitious, resolute to raise herself and her brother above the injuries of fortune, is perhaps a likeness of himself in a woman's dress. But the calm mastery of modern life, the survey, wide as the world, of the forces working in English society, the mellow and impartial wisdom which raises 'Lothair' from an ephemeral novel into a work of enduring value, all this is absent. It is as if disappointment had again clouded his superior qualities and had brought back something of his original deficiencies. The most interesting feature in 'Endymion' is the exact photograph of the old manor house at Bradenham, and the description of the feelings with which a fallen and neglected statesman of once brilliant promise retired there into unwelcome poverty. Except for this the book might have been unwritten and nothing would have been lost of Disraeli's fame. It throws no fresh light upon his own character. He wanted money and it brought him ten thousand pounds.

[Sidenote: ILLNESS AND DEATH]

The sand ran rapidly out. Lord Beaconsfield was in his place at the opening of the session of 1881. The effects of the return of the Liberal party were already visible in all parts of the Empire. He spoke with something of his old force on the state of things which was to be expected in Ireland. He spoke on India and foreign politics. He could not foresee the bombardment of the Alexandrian forts, the conquest of Egypt, to be followed by the disgrace of Khartoum. He escaped the mortification of the surrender to Russia on the Afghan frontier. But he lived to hear of the conclusion of the annexation of the Transvaal. He saw the enemies of England again at their work across St. George's Channel, and a Government again in power whose rule was to purchase peace by concession. His own part was played out. He had not succeeded, and it was time for him to be gone. In the middle of March he had an attack of gout, which was aggravated by a cold. At first no danger was anticipated, but he grew worse day after day, and on the 19th of April Benjamin Disraeli had taken his last leave of a scene in which he had so long been so brilliant an actor. When an English statesman dies, complimentary funeral orations are spoken over him in Parliament as part of the ordinary course; but Disraeli had been so uncommon a man that the displays on this occasion had more in them than they often have of genuine sincerity. He had been so long among us that his name had become a household word. The whole nation, of all shades of politics, felt that a man was gone whose place could not be filled, who in a long and chequered career had not only won his honours fairly but deserved affectionate remembrance.

He was infinitely clever. In public or private he had never done a dishonourable action; he had disarmed hatred and never lost a personal friend. The greatest of his antagonists admitted that when he struck hardest he had not struck in malice. A still higher praise belongs to himself alone that he never struck a small man.

The Abbey was offered, and a public funeral; and if honour there be in such interments he had an ample right to it. By his own desire he was buried at Hughenden, by the side of his wife and the romantic friend who had conceived so singular an attachment to him. There those three rest side by side, Disraeli and his faithful companion disguised as Earl and Viscountess, but thought of only by the present generation under their own familiar name, and the eccentric and passionate widow who had devoted her fortune to him. In life there had been a peculiar bond between these three. Disraeli had innumerable admirers, but there were not many to whom he trusted his inmost confidence. Gratitude was stronger in him even than ambition, and as to his wife and to Mrs. Willyams he owed the most, to them, perhaps, he was most completely attached. It was a strange union, but they had strange natures, and they lie fitly and well together--far away from the world, for which neither of them cared, in a quiet parish church in Buckinghamshire.

[Sidenote: CONDITIONS OF HUMAN GREATNESS]

A biography, however brief, must close with a general estimate. What estimate is to be formed of Disraeli? We have a standard by which to measure the bodily stature of a man; we have none by which to measure his character; neither need we at any time ask how great any man is, or whether great at all, but rather what he is. Those whom the world agrees to call great are those who have done or produced something of permanent value to humanity. We call Hipparchus great, or Newton, or Kepler, because we owe to them our knowledge of the motion of the earth and the stars. Poets and artists have been great men; philosophers have been great men. The mind of Socrates governs our minds at the present day. Founders of religion have been great men; reformers have been great men: we measure their worth by the work which they achieved. So in society and politics we call those great who have devoted their energies to some noble cause, or have influenced the course of things in some extraordinary way. But in every instance, whether in art, science, religion, or public life, there is an universal condition, that a man shall have forgotten himself in his work. If any fraction of his attention is given to the honours or rewards which success will bring him there will be a taint of weakness in what he does. He cannot produce a great poem, he cannot paint a great picture, he cannot discover secrets of science, because these achievements require a whole mind and not a divided mind. The prophet will be a prophet of half-truths, because the whole truth will not be popular. The statesman who has not purified himself of personal motives will never purify a disordered Constitution. Even kings and conquerors who are credited with nothing but ambition--the Alexanders and the Cæsars, the Cromwells and Napoleons--have been a cause in themselves, have been the representatives of some principle or idea. Their force, when they have succeeded, has been an impulse from within. They have aimed at power to impress their own personality outside them, but their operations are like the operations of the forces of nature, working from within outwards rather than towards an end of which they have been conscious. A man whose object is to gain something for himself often attains it, but when his personal life is over his work and his reputation perish along with him.

In this high sense of the word Lord Beaconsfield cannot be called great, either as a man of letters or as a statesman. 'Vivian Grey' is nothing but a loud demand on his contemporaries to recognise how clever a man has appeared among them. In every one of his writings there is the same defect, except in 'Sybil' and in 'Lothair.' It is absent in 'Sybil' because he had been deeply and sincerely affected by what he had witnessed in the great towns in the North of England; it is absent in 'Lothair' because when he wrote that book his personal ambition had for the time been satisfied, and he could look round him with the _siccum lumen_ of his intellect. He had then reached the highest point of his political aspiration, and money he did not care for unless required for pressing necessities. It is clear from 'Sybil' that there had been a time when he could have taken up as a statesman, with all his heart, the cause of labour. He had suffered himself in the suffering and demoralisation which he had witnessed, and if the 'young generation' to whom he appealed would have gone along with him he might have led a nobler crusade than Cœur de Lion. But it was not in him to tread a thorny road with insufficient companionship. He had wished, but had not wished sufficiently, to undertake a doubtful enterprise. He was contented to leave things as he found them, instead of reconstructing society to make himself Prime Minister.

[Sidenote: PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS]

Thus it was that perhaps no public man in England ever rose so high and acquired power so great, so little of whose work has survived him. Not one of the great measures which he once insisted on did he carry or attempt to carry. The great industrial problems are still left to be solved by the workmen in their own unions. Ireland is still in the throes of disintegration. If the colonies have refused to be cast loose from us their continued allegiance is not due to any effort of his. From Berlin he brought back peace with honour, but if peace remains the honour was soon clouded. The concessions which he prided himself on having extorted are evaded or ignored, and the imperial spirit which he imagined that he had awakened sleeps in indifference. The voices which then shouted so loudly for him shout now for another, and of all those great achievements there remain only to the nation the Suez Canal shares and the possession of Cyprus, and to his Queen the gaudy title of Empress of India. What is there besides? Yet there is a relative greatness as well as an absolute greatness, and Lemuel Gulliver was a giant among the Lilliputians. Disraeli said of Peel that he was the greatest member of Parliament that there had ever been. He was himself the _strongest_ member of Parliament in his own day, and it was Parliament which took him as its foremost man and made him what he was. No one fought more stoutly when there was fighting to be done; no one knew better when to yield, or how to encourage his followers. He was a master of debate. He had perfect command of his temper, and while he ran an adversary through the body he charmed even his enemies by the skill with which he did it. He made no lofty pretensions, and his aims were always perhaps something higher than he professed. If to raise himself to the summit of the eminence was what he most cared for, he had a genuine anxiety to serve his party, and in serving his party to serve his country; and possibly if among his other gifts he had inherited an English character he might have devoted himself more completely to great national questions; he might have even inscribed his name in the great roll of English worthies. But he was English only by adoption, and he never completely identified himself with the country which he ruled. At heart he was a Hebrew to the end, and of all his triumphs perhaps the most satisfying was the sense that a member of that despised race had made himself the master of the fleets and armies of the proudest of Christian nations.

But though Lord Beaconsfield was not all which he might have been he will be honourably and affectionately remembered. If he was ambitious his ambition was a noble one. It was for fame and not for fortune. To money he was always indifferent. He was even ostentatious in his neglect of his own interests. Though he left no debts behind him, in his life he was always embarrassed. He had no vices, and his habits were simple; but he was generous and careless, and his mind was occupied with other things. He had opportunities of enriching himself if he had been unprincipled enough to use them. There were times when he could set all the stock exchanges of Europe vibrating like electric wires in a thunderstorm. A secret word from him would have enabled speculating capitalists to realise millions, with no trace left how those millions were acquired or how disposed of. It is said that something of the kind was once hinted to him--once, but never again. Disraeli's worst enemy never suspected him of avarice or dishonour. As a statesman there was none like him before, and will be none hereafter. His career was the result of a combination of a peculiar character with peculiar circumstances, which is not likely to recur. The aim with which he started in life was to distinguish himself above all his contemporaries, and wild as such an ambition must have appeared, he at least won the stake for which he played so bravely.

INDEX

Adventures in Spain, 30-35

Afghanistan, war with, 251

'Alabama' claims, the, 201

Albania, 36-40

'Alroy,' an Eastern story, 45, 49

Alvanley, Lord, fight with O'Connell, 62

American Civil War, 158, 159, 163, 183, 194, 201

Anecdote of the Prince of Wales's wedding, 184, 185

Angels, on the side of, at Oxford, 17

Annexations, 244

'Arabian Nights,' offer to edit, 64

Aristocracy of England, the, 86, 107, 109, 112, 113, 187, 192-194, 217

Arms, 186, 187

Arta, 37

Arundel, Miss, in 'Lothair,' 226-230

Athens, 40, 42

Austen family, the, 20-24, 28, 48

Baillie Cochrane, 102

Banditti in Spain, 30-34

Bar, Disraeli and the, 22, 24, 27

Baring, Sir Thomas, 54-56

Batoum, 249

Beaconsfield, Lord (see Benjamin Disraeli)

Beckford and 'Alroy,' 49, 53

Bentinck, Lord George, 140;
and Peel, 142-146;
death of, 147 (see also 'Life of Lord Bentinck')

Berlin Conference, 249, 250, 252, 261

Billault, death of, 185, 186

Birth and early days, 12-14, 69

Bismarck, Prince, and Russia, 233, 243;
and Berlin Conference, 249, 250

Blessington, Lady, 50, 52, 54, 108, 156

Bolingbroke, Lord, 97, 98

Bradenham, 24, 25, 28, 34, 44, 58, 255, 256

Briggs, Mr., 43

British Empire, the, 238-241, 244, 245, 250

Buckle, 203

Buller (Yarde), 68

Bulwer, Lytton, 40, 49, 51, 55;
and Disraeli's speeches, 65, 108

Burdett, Sir F., 55;
and O'Connell, 70

Burghley, Lord, 237

Burke, 69

Burns, Robert, 187

Byron 21, 23, 36, 65

Cadiz, 32

Campbell, Sir J., and D.'s maiden speech, 72, 73

Canning, death of, 132;
lines on 'A Candid Friend,' 134;
Peel and, 143-146

Carlton Club, 60;
elected at, 64;
dinner at the, 68, 69

Carlyle on Lord Beaconsfield, 1-3, 130;
'Shooting Niagara,' 1-3, 195;
and Reform, 55;
and the 'Disraeli' science, 79;
and the Corn Laws, 80;
and Jews, 84;
'Past and Present,' 92, 93;
and Puseyism, 95;
and Free Trade, 151;
on Parliamentary Reform, 160;
and 'Lothair,' 218;
honours for, 252, 253

Carnarvon, Lord, 195, 249

Carriage incident, the, 89

Carringtons, the, 54-56

Carthage, the Jews in, 4

Catholic emancipation, Peel and, 131, 143-146, 203

Catholic question, the, 22

Chandos, Lord, 57, 72

Charles I. and Ireland, 60, 98, 102, 103

Chartists and Chartism, 59;
petition of 1839, 85, 86, 93, 94, 101

Chatham, Lord, 243

'Childe Harold' compared to 'Contarini,' 46, 49

Christianity, 169-172

Church of England, revival of, 94-99, 102;
and State, 170-177, 200, 204, 206, 245-247

Church of Ireland, the, 204-211

Civil War in America, 158, 159, 163, 183, 194, 201

Clay, James, 35, 36

Cobden, Mr., 81, 82;
and Free Trade, 136, 150;
and the Crimean War, 157

Coercion Bills, 102, 142-146, 209

Cogan's school, Dr., 15-17

Colenso, Bishop, 170, 173, 175

'Coningsby; or, the New Generation'--Sidonia, 88;
married life in, 89;
Dr. Newman and, 108;
outline of, 108-119, 127, 128, 215;
the Reformation in, 226

Conservative constitution, in 'Coningsby,' 110-112, 117;
35 years out of office, 192, 251, 252

Constantinople, 40

'Contarini Fleming,' school-days pictured in, 15-19, 28;
passages from 45-48, 49, 215

Copyright Bill, 73, 74

Corfu, 36

Cornish, Dr., 29

Corn Laws, 79-82, 93, 94, 130;
Peel and, 137-143;
Bill for repeal of, 140, 141;
league, 150

Crimean War, 157, 242, 243, 247

Croker, Wilson, 22

Cuddesden, B. D. at, 173

'Curiosities of Literature,' by Isaac D., 10

Cyprus, 41, 250, 261

Darwin, followers of, 172, 173;
'Origin of Species,' 173

Death, 257

Democracy, 192

Derby, Lord, 149, 157, 188, 191, 193, 196, 249

Devilsdust in 'Sybil,' 121-123

Dickens and 'Pickwick,' 23

D'Israeli, Isaac, and the Jewish people, 5, 6;
boyhood of, 8-11;
family of, 12, 13;
abandons Judaism for the Church of England, 13, 14;
pictured in 'Vivian Grey,' 18;
and High Wycombe election, 55;
death of, 179

Disraeli, Benjamin, the elder, 7-11

-- James, son of Isaac D., 13

-- Ralph, son of --, 13, 36

-- Sarah, daughter --, 12, 13;
and Wm. Meredith, 44

Disraeli, Benjamin, birth and education, 12-16;
baptism of, 14;
school days, 16-19;
and London society, 19, 50, 58;
enters a solicitor's office, 22;
first novel, 23-25;
travels abroad, 24-44, 99;
Bradenham, 24-25;
satires of, 25-27;
dress and manners, 29, 39, 53, 55;
improved health, 34, 35;
the poetical life, 45-49;
prose writings, 49;
political ambition, 50, 51;
portraits of, 52-54;
financial embarrassments, 52, 64, 65, 69, 178, 179;
a Radical, 54;
High Wycombe election, 55-57;
on marriage, 58;
takes seat in H. of C., 68, 119;
maiden speech in the House, 70-73;
outset of Parliamentary career, 74;
a Conservative, 94, 95;
political and religious belief, 83, 84;
Carlyle and, 84, 92, 93, 130, 252, 253;
and dinner at Whitehall Gardens, 85;
marriage of, 88-90;
Church views of, 94-99;
creed, 108;
as Sidonia in 'Coningsby,' 113;
and Sir. R. Peel, 131-137, 144-147;
and Tory party, 139, 140;
leader of Opposition, 149-156;
remarkable speeches of, 160-164;
literary work, 165-168;
religious views, 168-172;
at Oxford, 173-177;
and Mrs. Willyams, 179-187;
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 188;
arms and motto, 186, 187;
and Parliamentary Reform, 199, 202;
Prime Minister, 196-198, 235-242;
wife, 211;
and Ireland, 211;
writings, 216;
return to power, 235;
on the abolition of slavery, 236;
and Russia, 248, 249;
retirement from office, 254, 255;
illness and death, 257;
general estimate of, 258-262.
See also _Novels_, _Speeches_, _Satires_ and _Elections_

D'Orsay, Count, 50, 58, 62, 92, 108

Dress, 29, 39, 53, 55, 70, 92, 173

Ducrow speech, 65

Dufferin, Lady, and D.'s dress, 53

Duncombe, Tom, 86, 108

Durham, Lord, 57

Early ambition, 18, 21

Eastern Question of 1843, the, 103, 104;
of 1877, 244-250

Education, 13-19

Effects of Mr. Gladstone's policy, 213, 214

'Egremont,' 88

Egypt, 43

Eldon, Lord, and Toryism, 68

Elections, see High Wycombe, Taunton, Maidstone, Shrewsbury

Eliot, Lord, 50

'Endymion,' Ferrars in, 24, 25, 88, 178, 255, 256

England, the Jews in, 5, 7;
past and present, 74-82;
trade, 76;
Christianity, 81;
progress in, 91, 92;
and economists, 93, 94;
revival of Church of, 94-99, 102;
feudal system of, 97;
the aristocracy of, 86, 107, 109, 112, 113, 187, 192-194, 217;
Constitution in 'Coningsby,' 114-119, 127, 128;
working of English Government, 125, 126;
party government in, 153-156;
wealth of, 161;
warning against playing with the Constitution, 162-164, 188;
and Protestantism, 203

English Constitution, a satire on, 26, 27

Evangelicals, the, 204

Exhibition of 1851, Mrs. Willyams and, 180;
of 1862, 183

Family history, 6-11

Fenian Rebellion of 1867, 201, 202

Feudal system in England, 97

Financial embarrassments, 64, 65, 69, 178, 179

Fleuriz, governor of Cadiz, 32

France, and L. Napoleon, 156, 157;
revolution in, 163;
and Germany, 232

Franchise Bill, a, 195

Free Trade, 78-82, 92, 100, 125, 131;
and Progress, 149-152;
effects of, 160, 161, 193, 238

Frere, Sir Bartle, 251

'Genius of Judaism,' by Isaac Disraeli 5-6, 13, 14

Germany and Carlyle, 25

Gibraltar, 29-31;
Government House at, 29, 30

Gladstone, Mr. W. E., speech on Ireland, 202;
Irish policy, 204-214, 235;
and Turkey, 247

'Globe' and O'Connell, 64, 70

Gore, Mrs., 50

Gospel, the new, 129, 130

Granada, 33, 34

Grandison, Cardinal in 'Lothair,' 220-230

Grant, Chas., 50

Greece, 36, 39;
and Lord Stanley, 184

Greville, Chas., 57

Grey, Lord, 54, 59, 162;
Reform Cabinet, 191;
----'s son, 55, 56

Hanover, King of, 101

Hartington, Lord, 212, 235

'Henrietta Temple,' 65, 109, 215

Herbert (Sidney), 135, 136

High Wycombe election, 54-58, 60, 65

Holland, the Jews in, 7;
Isaac Disraeli sent to, 9

Holy Land, the, 28

Hope, H., 102, 108

House of Commons, first visit to, 50, 51, 65, 69;
maiden speech in, 70, 71;
power in the, 100, 101;
and Ireland, 104-106;
and Disraeli, 139, 140

Hughenden Manor, 179;
life at, 182, 183, 255;
buried at, 258

Human greatness, condition of, 258-260

Hume, 55, 56

Hunting, 58

India, 234, 238-240, 261

Indian Mutiny, the, 158, 183

'Infernal Marriage,' 26, 27, 217

Inquisition, the, and the Jews, 6

Ireland, 59;
in 'Popanilla,' 60, 65, 70, 71, 98, 102-106, 136;
famine in, 138, 142;
Fenianism in, 200-203;
Church of, 204-211, 233, 237, 238, 242, 260

Irish Education Bill, 235

Irving's (Washington) story of the Inn at Terracina, 33

'Ixion in Heaven,' 26, 27

Jaffa, 41

Jerusalem, visit to, 41-43, 230

Jews, the, 4;
of Spain, 5, 6;
in Venice, 6, 7;
in Holland, 7;
Carlyle and, 84;
in Parliament, 155;
Europe and the, 166;
Judaism, 169, 170;
and decoration, 216;
in Parliament, 234;
see also 'Genius of Judaism'

Kaffir War, 251

Knatchbull, Sir E., 145

Labouchere, Mr., 60

Landowners of Ireland, 202, 203

-- Act of 1870, 237

Lara, the house of, 6

Leech, J., and _Punch_, 252

Lemprière's dictionary, 26

Lennox, Lord William, 50

Letters, 84;
on his travels abroad, 24-44;
to 'The Times' _re_ O'Connell, 62, 63;
Runnymede, 64;
to sister about maiden speech, 71-73;
to Mrs. Brydges Willyams, 182-187

Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Wyndham, 51, 67;
death of Mr., 88

'Life of Lord George Bentinck,' 108;
Sir R. Peel in, 131, 145, 146, 165, 168, 179, 226

London, society in, 19;
of to-day, 151

'Lothair,' Preface to, 98, 99;
outline of, 215-231, 256, 260

Lyle, Mr., in 'Coningsby', 111

Lyndhurst, Lord, 57-59, 64, 147

Macaulay, 50, 203

Madden's memoirs of Lady Blessington, 54

Maidstone, returned for, 67, 100

Majuba Hill, 251

Malaga, adventure at, 33

Malta, 35, 36

Manners, Lord John, 102

Maples, Mr. and 'Ben,' 22

Marney, Lord, in 'Sybil,' 120, 121, 130

Marriage of B. D., 88-90

Maule, Fox, 86

Maurice, Fred, 176

Maynooth grant, the, 136

Melbourne, Lord, 59, 67, 68, 71, 87, 91, 196

Mentana, battle of, in 'Lothair,' 226-228

Meredith, William, 28-44

Miles, Mr., and agriculture, 135

Millbank and English aristocracy, 112;
state of parties in England, 117-119, 130

Milman, and 'Contarini,' 46, 49

Monmouth, Lord, in 'Coningsby,' 110

Moore, Tom, 50

Morgan, Lady, 50

Motley, Mr., 53

Motto, 186, 187

Mount of Olives, the, 42

Mowbray, Lord, in 'Sybil,' 120, 121, 130

Mulgrave, Lord, 50

Murray, John, 22, 23

Myra, in 'Endymion,' 256

Napoleon, Louis, 156, 157, 159, 185, 226, 243

Norton, Mrs., 50

Newman, Dr., secession from the Church, 98, 99;
and 'Coningsby,' 108

Novels. See 'Contarini Fleming,' 'Vivian Grey,' 'Endymion,'
'Tancred,' 'Alroy,' 'Coningsby'--Sidonia, 'Sybil,' 'Lothair,' &c.
-- heroes of his political, 87, 88

O'Connell (Morgan), and Disraeli, 55, 58-65;
and Sir F. Burdett, 70;
and Ireland in 1843, 102, 104, 136

O'Connor, T. P., 'Life of Lord Beaconsfield,' Ireland in, 105, 106

Oxford, Church at, 84;
Tractarian movement at, 107, 108, 203;
High Churchmen at, 172;
B. D. at, 173-177

Palmerston, Lord, 100, 101, 103, 159, 242, 243

Paris, Isaac Disraeli in, 10, 12;
dinner, with Louis Philippe, 101

Parliament and Disraeli, 3, 4;
in 'Coningsby,' 117-119;
Jews in, 234

Parliamentary government, Carlyle and, 1

Penal laws, 205, 208, 209

Personal characteristics, 260-262

Philippe, Louis, 101, 185

Philpotts, Bishop, 68

Peel, Sir Robert, first meeting with, 50, 59;
and O'Connell, 63, 104, 68, 69, 71, 72, 74, 84-87, 94, 99;
in 1841, 100-102;
and Eastern Question, 103;
in 'Coningsby,' 110, 111, 119, 129;
and Disraeli, 131-137;
and Canning, 134, 143;
and Free Trade, 135, 136, 192, 193;
challenge to D., 136, 137;
and the Corn Laws, 138-143;
and Lord Bentinck, 144-146, 168;
fall of, 146, 147, 212;
Disraeli and, 261

Pitt, 21;
the younger, 69, 98;
the elder, 146;
and Warren, 187;
the two, 242

Plato and Greece, 132;
and religion, 171, 172

Poems, Isaac D.'s, 10, 11

Poet, a, or not a poet? 47-49

Poland, 185, 186

Political economy, 78, 93, 94, 129, 130

'Popanilla,' 26, 27, 60

Poticary's school, Mr., 13, 14

Press representation in 'Coningsby,' 118, 119

Prince Imperial, the, 213

Progress, 147, 148

Protection, 78-82, 193

Protestantism, 77, 203;
in Ireland, 202, 203

Public schools, 15

Public Worship Bill, 172, 246, 247

Puseyism at Oxford, 94-96

'Quarterly Review,' January 1889, 20, 49

Radicals in Parliament, 59, 70, 74, 246

Ramle, plain of, 42

Rathcormack massacre, the, 59

Rationalism, 172, 173, 204

Redshid Pasha, 36-40

Reformation, the, 207

Reform Bill of 1867, Carlyle and, 1-3, 59, 68, 85, 94;
effects of, 96-98, 125;
a new, 188-192, 198, 199, 202, 234

'Revolutionary Epic,' a poem, 45, 48, 108

Rogers, Samuel, 22

Rose, Dr., of Wycombe, 64

Rothschild, 186

Rowton, Lord, 255

Runnymede letters in 'The Times,' 64

Russell, Lord John, 74;
and the Chartist riots, 86;
and Ireland, 105, 106;
and Corn Law, 132, 137-139, 145, 162;
and Reform Bill, 188;
and the Polish Question, 185, 246

Russia and the Black Sea Treaty, 232, 243-245;
in Asia, 244;
and Turkey, 247-250

Salisbury, Lord, 195

Satires. See 'Ixion in Heaven,' 'Popanilla,' 'The Infernal Marriage,'
&c.

School life, 14-19

Scott, Sir W., and Isaac D.'s poems, 10, 11

Self-defence, the art of, 17

Servia, 247

Seville, 33

Seymour, Sir H., 157

Shiel (Irish leader), 50, 73

'Shooting Niagara,' by T. Carlyle, 1-3, 195

Shrewsbury election, 100

Sidonia in 'Coningsby,' 113-116, 127

Slavery, abolition of, 236

Smyth, George, 102

Smythe, Sir H., hunting with, 58

Spain, the Jews of, 5, 6;
visit to, 28, 29;
adventures in, 30-35

Spanish families and crests, 187

Speeches, at the 'Red Lion,' High Wycombe, 55, 56;
at Taunton, 61, 62;
at Wycombe, 65;
Ducrow, 65;
maiden--in House of Commons, 70-73;
on Copyright Bill, 73, 74;
during Peel's Ministry, 133-138;
on Free Trade, 135, 136, 140;
on the Corn Laws, 137-138, 140-142;
on the effects of Free Trade, 160, 161;
on playing with the Constitution, 160-164;
at Oxford, on the Church, 173-177;
on tricks with British Constitution, 188;
on secret committees, 212, 213;
at Manchester, 214;
at the Crystal Palace, 1872, 239;
at Berlin Conference, 249

Stanley, Dean, 175

-- Lord, 139;
and Greece, 184

Strafford and Ireland, 60

Strangford, Lord, 63

Strauss, followers of, 172, 173

Suez Canal, 43;
shares, 261

Swift, the satire of, 26

'Sybil, or, the Two Nations,' dedicated to his wife, 88, 89, 92;
Reform Act in, 96-98;
extracts from, &c., 119-129, 215;
the Reformation in, 226, 256, 260

Tadpole and Taper in 'Sybil,' 125, 126

'Tancred; or, the New Crusade,' impressions of the Holy Land in, 41-43;
sketch of, 165-168, 215

Tariff of 1842, the, 101

Taunton election, 60, 64

Theodora, in 'Lothair,' 221-226

Theories of life, 169, 170

'Times,' letter to, about O'Connell, 62, 63;
Runnymede letters in, 64

Tractarians at Oxford, 107, 108, 204;
Mr. Gladstone a, 207, 246

Trafford, 130

Transvaal, 251

Travels abroad, 24-44

Troy, the plain of, 41

Turkey in 1843, 103, 104, 157, 243, 244;
and Russia, 247-350;
treaty with, 250

Turks, the, 36-38

Turner, Mr. Sharon, 14

Tyre, the Jews and, 4

Under-Secretaries of State, 86

'Venetia,' 65, 109, 215

Venice, the Jew in, 6, 7

'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation,' 166-168

'Vindication of the British Constitution,' 59, 64

'Vivian Grey,' school-days pictured in, 15-19;
and the Bar, 21;
and the Church, 21;
a successful novel, 23-25;
the 'Young Duke' in, 25, 28, 29, 46, 49, 215, 260

Voltaire on Ireland, 208, 242

Wales's wedding, the Prince of, 184, 185

Wellington, the Duke of, 57, 63, 64, 99

'What is he?' a political pamphlet, 57, 58

Whigs, and Ireland, 59-61, 67, 70;
ministry in 1865, 188

Wife, his, 88-90, 211

Wilberforce, Bishop, 173

William IV., death of, 67

Willis, N. P., sketch of Benjamin Disraeli, 52, 53

Willyams, Mrs. Brydges, of Torquay, 179-187, 258

Wiseman, Cardinal, in 'Lothair,' 220

Yanina, visit to, 36-40

Young Englanders, the, 102, 107, 109

Zulus, the, 213;
war with, 251

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] _Quarterly Review_, January 1889, p. 30.

[2] May 24, 1832.

[3] This is authentic, though I cannot give my authority.--J. A. F.

[4] April 27, 1835.

[5] Father of Sir Philip Rose, who was afterwards Disraeli's executor.

[6] _Sybil._

[7] Preface to _Lothair_.

[8] February 2, 1842.

[9] I do not mention this story without careful enquiry.

[10] Lady Beaconsfield enjoyed her honours only for four years. She died December 15, 1872.

[11] It should be said that the Bill, though supported by Disraeli, was introduced by the Primate, and was not a Cabinet measure.

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