nationality and their country once more, and there is no power on earth that could ever take it from them.”¹ ¹ India and Palestine: or, the Restoration of the Jews, viewed in relation to The Nearest Route to India.... By Thomas Clarke, M.D.... Manchester: ... (_pp._ 12‒15). _p._ vi., Wilmslow, July, 1861. CHAPTER XXVII. EARL OF BEACONSFIELD Christianity and Judaism――Disraeli’s character――Jewish features――_Alroy_――_Tancred_――The defence of Jewish rights ――Oriental policy. THE most original combination of an Englishman and a Jew was Benjamin Disraeli (1804‒1887), Earl of Beaconsfield (1876), whom Zionists may claim as one of the greatest representatives of their movement. Was Lord Beaconsfield a Christian or a Jew? For Jews the question is satisfactorily answered by their instinct of sympathy. Lord Beaconsfield felt towards the members of his race as a Jew feels for his fellow-Jews. That being the test, Lord Beaconsfield proved himself a good Jew in that respect. In religious matters, however, Lord Beaconsfield was a Christian――and a Zionist. He was purely Jewish by descent, and was the eldest son of Isaac _D’_Israeli (1766‒1848), the author of _The Curiosities of Literature_ (1791), _The Genius of Judaism_ (1833), _etc._, by his wife Miriam (Maria), a daughter of Naphtali (_d._ 1808) _de_ Solomon Basevi of Verona, Italy. He was born in London on Friday, 21 December, 1804, and was initiated into the _Abrahamic_ covenant on the following Friday, 26 _Tebet_, 5565, by David Abarbanel Lindo (1772‒1852). Isaac _D’_Israeli severed his connection finally with the Bevis Marks synagogue in March, 1817, and on the 31 July following, at the instigation it is said of Samuel Rogers (1763‒1855), the banker poet, the future Premier was baptised at the parish church of St. Andrew, Holborn. In his public conduct and pronouncements he proved undeniably that an Englishman, by birth a Jew, can be as much an Englishman as any descendant of Saxon, Norman, or Dane living in these islands, and can share with as warm a glow the common sentiment of patriotism that unites Englishmen round their ancient throne and institutions.