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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