Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE. BY ISAAC DISRAELI. A New Edition, EDITED, WITH MEMOIR AND NOTES, BY HIS SON, THE EARL OF BEACONSFIELD. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: FREDERICK WARNE AND CO., BEDFORD STREET, STRAND. LONDON: BRADBURY, AGNEW, & CO., PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS. +--------------------------------------------------------------+ |Transcriber's Note: In this text the macron is represented as | | | |[=u] and [=o] | | | |[R 'c'] represents a reverse 'c' | +--------------------------------------------------------------+ ADVERTISEMENT. This is the first collected edition of a series of works which have separately attained to a great popularity: volumes that have been always delightful to the young and ardent inquirer after knowledge. They offer as a whole a diversified miscellany of literary, artistic, and political history, of critical disquisition and biographic anecdote, such as it is believed cannot be elsewhere found gathered together in a form so agreeable and so attainable. To this edition is appended a Life of the Author by his son, also original notes, which serve to illustrate or to correct the text, where more recent discoveries have brought to light facts unknown when these volumes were originally published. LONDON, 1881. * * * * * ON THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF MR. DISRAELI. BY HIS SON.