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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[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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