Disraeli: A Study in Personality and Ideas - Walter Sichel

[188] At Berlin Bismarck said of him, “Disraeli is England.” His translated works were, and I believe are, read widely abroad.

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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