A STUDY IN
PERSONALITY AND IDEAS
BY
WALTER SICHEL
AUTHOR OF “BOLINGBROKE AND HIS TIMES”
WITH THREE ILLUSTRATIONS
NEW YORK
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
LONDON: METHUEN & CO.
1904
ERRATUM
Page 22, line 2 note, for “called to the bar” read “entered at Lincoln’s Inn”
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| INTRODUCTION. ON THE IMAGINATIVE QUALITY | [1] |
| CHAPTER I | |
| DISRAELI’S PERSONALITY | [21] |
| CHAPTER II | |
| DEMOCRACY AND REPRESENTATION | [53] |
| CHAPTER III | |
| LABOUR—“YOUNG ENGLAND”—“FREE TRADE” | [112] |
| CHAPTER IV | |
| CHURCH AND THEOCRACY | [145] |
| CHAPTER V | |
| MONARCHY | [180] |
| CHAPTER VI | |
| COLONIES—EMPIRE—FOREIGN POLICY | [199] |
| CHAPTER VII | |
| AMERICA—IRELAND | [246] |
| CHAPTER VIII | |
| SOCIETY | [268] |
| CHAPTER IX | |
| LITERATURE: WIT, HUMOUR, ROMANCE | [289] |
| CHAPTER X | |
| CAREER | [316] |
| INDEX | [327] |