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The Earl of Beaconsfield
Uniform with this volume, 3s. 6d. each, with Portrait.
THE QUEEN’S PRIME MINISTERS,
A SERIES OF POLITICAL BIOGRAPHIES
EDITED BY
STUART J. REID,
AUTHOR OF ‘THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SYDNEY SMITH.’
The Volumes will contain Portraits, and will be published at periodical intervals.
- THE EARL OF BEACONSFIELD, K.G. By J. A. Froude, D.C.L.
- VISCOUNT MELBOURNE. By Henry Dunckley, LL.D. (‘Verax.’)
- SIR ROBERT PEEL. By Justin McCarthy, M.P.
- VISCOUNT PALMERSTON. By the Marquis of Lorne, K.T.
- EARL RUSSELL. By Stuart J. Reid.
- THE RIGHT HON. W. E. GLADSTONE, M.P. By G. W. E. Russell.
- THE EARL OF ABERDEEN. By Sir Arthur Gordon, G.C.M.G. &c.
- THE MARQUIS OF SALISBURY. By H. D. Traill, D.C.L.
- THE EARL OF DERBY. By George Saintsbury.
London:
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE & RIVINGTON, Limited,
St. Dunstan’s House, Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, E.C.
The Prime Ministers of
Queen Victoria
EDITED BY
STUART J. REID
LORD BEACONSFIELD
PRINTED BY
SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE
LONDON
LORD BEACONSFIELD
BY J. A. FROUDE
We shall not look upon his like again
SECOND EDITION
LONDON
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE & RIVINGTON
LIMITED
St. Dunstan’s House
FETTER LANE, FLEET STREET, E.C.
1890
[All rights reserved]
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I |
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| Carlyle on Lord Beaconsfield—Judgment of the House of Commons—Family history—The Jews in Spain—Migration to Venice—Benjamin D’Israeli the elder—Boyhood of Isaac Disraeli | 1 |
CHAPTER II |
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| 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 in ‘Vivian Grey’ and ‘Contarini Fleming’—Self-education at home—Early ambition | 12 |
CHAPTER III |
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| 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 satires—‘Popanilla’—Tours in the East—Gibraltar—Cadiz—Seville—Mountain adventures—Improved health—Malta—James Clay—Greece—Yanina—Redshid Pasha—Athens—Constantinople—Plains of Troy and Revolutionary epic—Jaffa—Jerusalem—Egypt—Home letters—Death of William Meredith—Return to England | 20 |
CHAPTER IV |
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| ‘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—Disraeli a new star—London society—Political ambition—Mrs. Wyndham Lewis—Financial embarrassments—Portraits of Disraeli by N. P. Willis—Lady Dufferin and others—Stands for High Wycombe—Speech at the Red Lion—Tory Radicalism—Friendship with Lord Lyndhurst—Self-confidence—Vindication of the British Constitution—Conservative reaction—Taunton election—Crosses swords with O’Connell—The Runnymede Letters—Admitted into the Carlton Club—‘Henrietta Temple’ and ‘Venetia’ | 45 |
CHAPTER V |
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| 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 completely successful—State of politics—England in a state of change—Break-up of ancient institutions—Land and its duties—Political economy and Free Trade—Struggle on the Corn Laws | 67 |
CHAPTER VI |
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| 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 at arms in the House of Commons—Marriage—Mrs. Wyndham Lewis—Disraeli as a husband | 83 |
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