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(From the Press.)
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It might be replied, in the first instance, that Mr.
Disraeli is an individual who, sixteen or seventeen years
ago, a trial of what is in a man, entered the House of
Commons, unknown, we believe, to any individual in it,
the humblest member of the Conservative party ; that
he is now the leader of the Conservative party in that
assembly ; that he has been for a time leader of the
House of Commons itself, and conducted its proceedings
with dignity, temper, and general approbation. It
might be added that, during the whole of this period, it
has never been pretended that he ever forfeited a pledge
or ever deserted his party, while, during the same inter-
val, there is not one of his rivals who has not changed
both his politics and his connections.

But then it is urged by his assailants that there is a
preceding period of his life when his conduct was not so
staid, consistent, and methodical, but much the reverse.
This period would extend, so far as we can collect, from
his twentieth to approaching his thirtieth year. The
researches of his assailants have made us fal familiar with
incidents which in oy other man's life would have been
forgotten, or have never emerged from obscurity. Every-
thing itt thi? :,4-1 up i.13.,..pen out.
ho is not acquainted with the newspapers, the novels,
the wanderings of his youth ; of his fierce struggle to
emerge from the crowd ; of his sharp correspondence and
his ready controversy ; of his fantastic politics and party
schemes ; of his feud with O'Connell and his feud
with the Whigs ; of his superfluous energy to get into
Parliament, when, probably, had he known a single
human being, he might have entered it without difficulty,
and been thanked for his pains ? All this has been de-
scribed over and over again by malignant, but superficial,
men, who fancy they are annihilating him, and is now
reproduced in the ponderous tome before us, the avowed
manifesto of the Puseyite party, as if all these wildnesses
were circumstances which affected the moral character
of the individual they assail. We confess we have long
looked upon all these strange adventures in a very dif.
ferent spirit. We feel obliged to the detractors of a
man of genius that they should have accumulated
with so much industry these records of his early years.
They might otherwise have been lost to us. With us
the contemplation of this early life amazes the spirit and
touches the heart. We perceive only the restlessness of
a creative mind, the struggles of a strong and solitary
will, the impatience of unrecognised power, the waste
of enormous energy without a guide, all that turbulence of
genius which is so strange and rare ; and we have no
doubt that the day will arrive when this period of the
life of Disraeli will be pondered over with as tender an
interest as we now muse over the fitful or fiery youth of
a Rousseau or an Alfieri.

If a fairy had accumulated upon the cradle of a child
every spell which would blast success in life, it would
seem she need only have collected the accessories of the
life of the hero of this literary and political biography.
He was the child of a recluse student without a friend
or a connection : he was barn of a race which was then
considered infamous : he had not what are esteemed the
advantages of a conventional education : he was destined
to a laborious and obscure profession. Out of this mess
he comes forth a Minister of State, a transcendent ora-
tor, a writer of unexampled grace, a varied and accom-
plished scholar, and with a greater personal following
than any man of the day.
He has achieved even a greater triumph. His writings
have absolutely changed not only the opinion of this
country, but of Europe, respecting the Jewish race.
The imputation which was considered infamous is now
held to be honourable. There is no subject in which; in
ten years, so great a revolution of sentiment has occur-
red. At the last contested election for Buckingham-
shire, Baron Rothschild voted against Mr. Disraeli.
This appears to us to be the most flagrant act of ingrati-
tude on record, and makes us individually repent the
votes which we have in our time given for Jewish eman-
cipation.
But then it is said that, in rising to this eminence,
11r. Disraeli has been an Ishmael, and that his hand
has been against every man, and especially, according
to this book, "every distinguished man." \A once
heard Mr. Disraeli say that, throughout the many com-
bats and controversies in which he had figured, he had
never been the first assailant ; and, from the remarkable
frankness which distinguishes his conversation, we be-
lieve him. For " all distinguished men," however, in
the book before us, read " Sir Robert Peel." On this
head we may perhaps have as much right to speak as
the compilers of the biOgraphy, or any other libellers of
Mr. Disraeli. The writer of the present article was a
follower of Sir Robert Peel, and one of those who did
not desert that great statesnum in his fallen fortunes.
It was unfortunate for Sir Robert Peel that Mr. Disraeli
was not included in his arrangements in 1841, for, if so,
Sir Robert would probably have died Prime Minister of
England. The omission, however, was not unfortunate
for Mr. Disraeli ; for, with that tenacity of purpose and
fidelity to his friends which distinguish him, he would
have devoted all his energies to his chief, and never,
perhaps, have been a chief himself. The common opinion
that Peel did not appreciate Disraeli is a mistake. The
present writer is aware that Sir Robert wished to offer
office to Mr. Disraeli in 1841. This was prevented
by the political parasites by whom it was the
weakness of the great minister to be surrounded, and we
owe to this circumstance those immortal sketches of
the Rigbys, the Tadpoles, and the Tapers, which Beau-
marchais never surpassed. At the same time we must
express our protest against the cant that a person who
believes his claims improperly slighted is not to make
his power felt by the leader who slights him. One thing
is quite certain, that every man under such circumstances
will do so who can ; and if few succeed it is only be-
cause their inability proves the discrimination of the
minister, Notwithstanding the fieice struggles of 1845
and 1846, Sir Robert Peel lived to appreciate Mr. Dis-
raeli, and, strange to say, his last public act was to cheer
in the House of Commons the author of his do wnfal. It
was when Mr. Disraeli closed the debate on the famous
Palmerston discussion. This is not rumour or hearsay,
for the writer of this article sat next to Sir Robt. Peel
on that occasion. A few days after, when the horrible
tragedy was over, amid a group of mourning disciples
we heard Mr. Gladstone urge as a consolation, " Peel
died at peace with all mankind. He even lived to cheer
Disraeli."

There is one great error into which public writers on
Mr. Disraeli are apt to fall. They attribute his posi-
tion solely to those qualities which are obvious to tho
multitude, and fancy they are making very shrewd ob-
servations when they inform the world " that he is used,
but not trusted ;" that he is " a necessary instru-
ment, without whom his associates would do if
they could ;" that he is tolerated by them, "and not
cherished." Now, having lived a long while in the
House of Commons with Mr. Disraeli, though latterly
in a hostile camp, and also having had many social op-
portunities of forming a just opinion on this subject, we
must express our belief that the present influence of Mr.
Disraeli is owing not so much to his public as to his pri-
vate life. If any of the mortifying vicissitudes which
have occurred of late years to Lord Palmerston were
to happen to Mr. Disraeli, we verily believe that,
were he to retire below the gangway, there would
be seventy or eighty men of the best blood and
the highest character in England who would accom-
pany him. Mr. Canning was famous for his following,
which he hardly deserved, for he once disbanded and
deserted them, but still his personal friends ultimately
carried him through. Mr. Canning never had half the
personal following of Mr. Disraeli.
Lord Lyndhurst is considered not a mean judge of
character. He was the first of our leading men who
brought forward Mr. Disraeli, and there has subsisted
between them a confidential friendship of upwards of
twenty years' duration. Lord George Bentinck was
not a man who could be practised upon by a, sycophant
or an intriguer. His manly and somewhat blunt nature
recoiled from glozing, and he detected in a moment,
and never pardoned, the man who was not straight-
forward. Yet it is well known that the feelings of
Lord George Bentinck to Mr. Disraeli were those
of entire devotion. Lord Derby is a very clever
man—perhaps the cleverest man in the country. His
quickness of perception is unrivalled, and he is not em-
barrassed with any inconvenient degree of sensibility.
He is said, too, to be very proud, and not a little pre-
judiced. He was just the sort of man who would be
prejudiced against Mr. Disraeli, who had even attacked
the Government of which he was a member. It was
notorious in the House of Commons that this prejudice
existed. Yet the moment the untimely end of Lord
George Bentinck brought Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli
together—what happened ? That which has happened
with every first-rate man who has become acquainted
with Mr. Disraeli, except, unhappily, Sir Robert Peel—
complete confidence and cordial regard. It is the same
with all his followers who are in his intimacy. They
are bound to him by a sentiment of personal devotion.
Now, this is not an effect to be produced by talents
a'one, however brilliant. Sheridan could never do this,
nor even Mr. Burke. Mr. Canning had very great ad-
vantages. He was the hero of . a then very powerful
University, and the brother-in-law of a duke ; but we
repeat, he had not the personal influence of the libelled
hero of the "Literary and Political Biography.. They
are qualities superior to talents, and even genius, that
produce such an influence : a noble disposition which
attaches men, and in which all men irresistibly confide.
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alarmed at the enthusiasm of the Oxford undergraduates
in favour of Mr. Disraeli. The cheers of Christ Church
Quad. appear to have disturbed the self-complacency of
some of their prime patrons. Now, the undergraduate
enthusiasm seems to us to be the most natural thing in the
world; nor can we be surprised that youth should sympa-
thise with one so capable of charming the imagination
of the " new generation." We were not present at the
Oxford triumph ; our fealty is pledged to another seat
of learning not less renowned ; but of this we feel per-
suaded, that Cambridge must be very much changed
since our time if the reception of Mr. Disraeli in the
Senate-house were less fervent than in the theatre, or
if St. John's and Trinity were to yield in the enthu-
siasm so much deplored in the college of which Mr.
Gladstone is a member.
If the object of the " Literary and Political, Bi-
og,rraphy," and the sermons simultaneously preached
from its texts by the various Puseyite organs, be to
detach the Conservative party from Mr. Disraeli, we
predict an overwhelming failure. There are certain
politicians who are, no doubt, in a false position, and
who would perhaps not be grieved to resume one
more natural to them ; but they will not be per-
mitted to do so by preparing the way for the sacrifice of
Mr. Disraeli by systematic libels. He will outlive their
spite, or they will only be remembered in connection
with him like the heroes of "The Dunciad." The career
of the late Chancellor of the Exchequer is not closed :
we believe its brightest portion is in the future. We
have watched its wonderful vicissitudes with a deep in-
terest since our college days, when we read for the first
time " Contarini Fleming" with a glowing heart and a
kindling cheek. Its author was described -sas- a writer,
and he is now one of the most popular;fitii he will cer-
tainly be the most enduring, author of the day : he was
coughed down in the House of Commons in his maiden
speech, and he lived to produce oratorical effects in the
same assembly which have never been equalled in our
time, and which we much doubt whether the eighteenth
century ever surpassed. He has only been driven from
power by a coalition against him of every man of talent
of every party in the Lit ;;;s own, and that
ccali.,,on already is nauseous to the nation. We have
invariably observed that, whenever Disraeli has received
a check, it has only been the herald of a great advance ;
and that, when the world has believed him beaten, he
has always been on the eve of his greatest victories.