The Earl of Beaconsfield

CHAPTER I

Carlyle on Lord Beaconsfield--Judgment of the House of Commons--Family History--The Jews in Spain--Migration to Venice--Benjamin D'Israeli the Elder--Boyhood of Isaac Disraeli.

[Sidenote: CARLYLE'S OPINION OF HIM]

Carlyle, speaking to me many years ago of parliamentary government as he had observed the working of it in this country, said that under th...