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;