[250] J. Morley, Life of W. E. Gladstone, vol. iv. pp. 552, 558.
[251] E.g. Sir J. G. T. Sinclair, A Defence of Russia (1877); T. P. O’Connor, Lord Beaconsfield: a Biography (1878); etc.
[252] In justice to the writer it must be added that this ungenerous and untrue caricature was the common estimate of Disraeli entertained by all his political opponents. Except Lord Acton, they all agreed with the Duke of Argyll in holding that Disraeli was a “fantastic adventurer”—a man who, having no opinions of his own and no traditions with which to break, “was free to play with prejudices in which he did not share, and to express passions which were not his own, except in so far as they were tinged with personal resentment.” See Duke of Argyll: Autobiography and Memoirs, Vol. i. p. 280.
[253] Malcolm MacColl, “Lord Beaconsfield,” The Contemporary Review, June, 1881.
[254] Goldwin Smith, “The Jews,” The Nineteenth Century, Nov., 1882. The writer repeats all these views, in almost identical terms, in The Independent, June 21, 1906.
[255] Israel Abrahams, Jewish Life in the Middle Ages, Introd.
[256] Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe, vol. ii. p. 281.
[257] Goldwin Smith, ubi supra.
[258] S. Singer, “The Russo-Jewish Immigrant,” in The English Illustrated Magazine, Sept. 1891.
[259] David Baron, The Ancient Scriptures and the Modern Jew, p. 179, 1900.