The Earl of Beaconsfield

Family of Isaac Disraeli--Life in London--Birth of his children--Abandons Judaism and joins the Church of England--Education of Benjamin Disraeli--School days--Picture of them i...

The Austen family--Choice of a profession--Restlessness--Enters a solicitor's office--'Vivian Grey'--Illness--Travels abroad--Migration of the Disraelis to Bradenham--Literary s...

'Contarini Fleming'--The poetical life--Paternal advice--A poet, or not a poet?--'Revolutionary Epic'--Disraeli submits to an unfavourable verdict--Success of the novels--Disrae...

Returned to Parliament for Maidstone--Takes his place behind Sir R. Peel--Maiden speech--Silenced by violence--Peel's opinion of it--Advice of Shiel--Second speech on Copyright...

Disraeli's beliefs, political and religious--Sympathy with the people--Defends the Chartists--The people, the middle-classes, and the aristocracy--Chartist Riots--Smart passage...

The enthusiasm of progress--Carlyle and Disraeli--Protection and Free Trade--Sir Robert Peel the Protectionist champion--High Church movement at Oxford--The Church as a Conserva...

Young England and the Oxford Tractarians--Disraeli a Hebrew at heart--'Coningsby'--Sidonia--'Sybil; or the Two Nations'--The great towns under the new creed--Lords of the soil,...

The New Gospel--Effect on English character--The Manchester School--Tendencies of Sir Robert Peel--The Corn Laws--Peel brought into office as a Protectionist--Disraeli and Peel-...

Disraeli as Leader of the Opposition--Effects of Free Trade--Scientific discoveries--Steam--Railroads--Commercial revolution--Unexampled prosperity--Twenty-five years of Liberal...

Literary work--'Tancred; or, the New Crusade'--Modern philosophy--The 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation'--'Life of Lord George Bentinck'--Disraeli's religious views--...

Indifference to money--Death of Isaac Disraeli--Purchase of Hughenden--Mrs. Brydges Willyams of Torquay--An assignation with unexpected results--Intimate acquaintance with Mrs....

Fall of the Whigs in 1867--Disraeli as Chancellor of the Exchequer--Reform Bill, why undertaken--Necessities, real or fancied, of a Party Leader--Alternatives--Split in the Cabi...

Reply of the Liberals to the Tory Reform Bill--State of Ireland--The Protestant Establishment--Resolutions proposed by Mr. Gladstone--Decay of Protestant feeling in England--Pro...

The calm of satisfied ambition--A new novel--'Lothair'--Survey of English society--The modern aristocracy--Forces working on the surface and below it--Worship of rank--Cardinal...

The exhausted volcanoes--Mr. Gladstone's failure and unpopularity--Ireland worse than before--Loss of influence in Europe--The Election of 1874--Great Conservative majority--Dis...

Retirement from office--Dignity in retreat--Hughenden--Lord Beaconsfield as a landlord--Fondness for country life--'Endymion'--Illness and death--Attempted estimate of Lord Beac...

Carlyle, speaking to me many years ago of parliamentary government as he had observed the working of it in this country, said that under this system not the fittest men were cho...

Family of Isaac Disraeli--Life in London--Birth of his Children--Abandons Judaism and joins the Church of England--Education of Benjamin Disraeli--School Days--Picture of them i...

The Austen Family--Choice of a Profession--Restlessness--Enters a Solicitor's Office--'Vivian Grey'--Illness--Travels Abroad--Migration of the Disraelis to Bradenham--Literary S...

'Contarini Fleming'--The Poetical Life--Paternal advice--A Poet, or not a Poet?--'Revolutionary Epic'--Unfavourable verdict--Success of the Novels--Disraeli a new Star--London S...

Returned to Parliament for Maidstone--Takes his place behind Sir R. Peel--Maiden speech--Silenced by violence--Peel's opinion of it--Advice of Shiel--Second speech on Copyright...

Disraeli's belief, political and religious--Sympathy with the people--Defends the Chartists--The people, the middle classes, and the aristocracy--Chartist riots--Smart passage a...

The enthusiasm of progress--Carlyle and Disraeli--Protection and Free Trade--Sir Robert Peel the Protectionist Champion--High Church movement at Oxford--The Church as a Conserva...

Young England and the Oxford Tractarians--Disraeli a Hebrew at heart--'Coningsby'--Sidonia--'Sybil; or, the Two Nations'--The great towns under the new creed--Lords of the soil...

The New Gospel--Effect on English character--The Manchester School--Tendencies of Sir Robert Peel--The Corn Laws--Peel brought into office as a Protectionist--Disraeli and Peel-...

Disraeli as Leader of the Opposition--Effects of Free Trade--Scientific discoveries--Steam--Railroads--Commercial revolution--Unexampled prosperity--Twenty-five years of Liberal...

Literary work--'Tancred; or, the New Crusade'--Modern philosophy--The 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation'--'Life of Lord George Bentinck'--Disraeli's religious views--...

Indifference to money--Death of Isaac Disraeli--Purchase of Hughenden--Mrs. Brydges Willyams of Torquay--An assignation with unexpected results--Intimate acquaintance with Mrs....

Fall of the Whigs in 1867--Disraeli as Chancellor of the Exchequer--Reform Bill, why undertaken--Necessities real or fancied of a Party Leader--Alternatives--Split in the Cabine...

Reply of the Liberals to the Tory Reform Bill--State of Ireland--The Protestant Establishment--Resolution proposed by Mr. Gladstone--Decay of Protestant feeling in England--Prot...

The calm of satisfied ambition--A new novel--'Lothair'--Survey of English society--The modern aristocracy--Forces working on the surface and below it--Worship of rank--Cardinal...

The exhausted volcanoes--Mr. Gladstone's failure and unpopularity--Ireland worse than before--Loss of influence in Europe--The Election of 1874--Great Conservative majority--Dis...

Retirement from office--Dignity in retreat--Hughenden--Lord Beaconsfield as a landlord--Fondness for country life--'Endymion'--Illness and death--Attempted estimate of Lord Beac...