Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 53917-h.htm or 53917-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/53917/53917-h/53917-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/53917/53917-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/disraelistudyinp00sichrich [Illustration: _Kenneth Macleay_ _The Young Disraeli._] DISRAELI 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 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS TO FACE PAGE PORTRAIT OF THE YOUNG DISRAELI. FROM THE MINIATURE BY KENNETH MACLEAY IN THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY _Frontispiece_ PORTRAIT OF DISRAELI THE YOUNGER. AFTER A WATER COLOUR BY A. E. CHALON 23 PORTRAIT OF DISRAELI IN 1852. AFTER A PAINTING BY SIR FRANCIS GRANT, P.R.A. 289 “TIME IS REPRESENTED WITH A SCYTHE AS WELL AS WITH AN HOUR-GLASS. WITH THE ONE HE MOWS DOWN, WITH THE OTHER HE RECONSTRUCTS.”--DISRAELI, _in The Press_, 1853.