Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-20
Bentamfn DisroeIt,s C.raar

l II. 1 leo4: His father, Isaac DisraeG, was the.au- ! thor of 1.-The Curiosities of Literature" and l other works. His mother was Maria Basevi.
 Hebrew lady of great beauty and remark ] able accomplishments, whom his father mar
 ried in 1902. While Benjamin was vet a 1 child the family withdrew from the syna- | gogue With which they had been connected l and ln 1Sl1 he received Christian baptism Of his boyhood and early education little is
 known. In 1920 he entered law office bnt 1 soon finding he had no taste for the law he l gave up his place to his brother Ralph Af-
 ter brief interval of foreign travel he pub lished his famous novel 'vivian Grey." the l chief characters in which were faithful pie lures of himself and of persons we'll known ! in society. The originality, vivacity and wit of this book gave it great celebrity and it was translated into the principal languages of I Europe. In 1928 he published in one vol tune ''The Voyage of Captain Popanilla." a gay and good -humored, but 1insy, satire which met with little success The next year he began an extended tour in Italy, Greece. Albania, Syria, Egypt and Nubie, and re turned in 1881. Shortly afterward he pub Eshed his second fashionable novel, s'The Young Duke," and in the following year an other novel, ''Contarini Fleming, a Psycho- logical Autobiography
 At this time D1sraeli made his first attempt to enter Parliament and was defeated. In 1884 and in 1885 he tried again and was de- feated again. In the meantime he wrote and published several books. "The Wondrous Tale of Alroy," an Oriental romance of ex- traordinary eloquence and power, depicting the adventures of @ prince of the house of David, who in the twelfth century proclaimed himself the Messiah and called the Jews of De- E.
 jed by 1.-The Rise of Islander" a tale founded on the revolt of the famous Sean derberg against the Turks in the 18th cen tury political pamphlet entitled ''What is He ?" in 1884, in which he tried to explain bis political views; "The Revolutionary Epic" and ''The Crisis Examined" in the same year, and "A Vindication of the Eng fish Constitution in 1885. In 1886 he pub lished series of letters to the London 7fm1es under the signature of ''Runnymede," which were read with great interest on &C., count of their remarkable wit and sarcasm. Toward the close of the same year he pub lished a love story, Henrietta Temple"; and in the spring of 1887 appeared 'Vene- tia." novel, in which he portrayed the characters and appearance of Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
 At last, in 1887, D1sraeli got into Parlia- ment. His maiden speech was failure. When he began to speak O'Connel and his
 
 not be heard but as he took his seat he said, II have begun several things many times. and have often succeeded at last. I
 will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me" In July, 1899, this prediction began to be fulfilled. He then made speech which was listened to with
 attention and praised for it's ability. In that
 year he published his five. act tragedy, Count
 Alarcos," founded on an old Spanish ballad
 ana in the same year contracted most for
 tunate marriage with the wealthy widow of
 Windham Lewis, his friend and colleague in
 the representation of Maidstone. The happy
 influence of this union he has himself
 acknowledged in the graceful dedication of
 one of his novels to a perfect wife,
 In 1541 Disraeli was elected from the bor
 ough of Shrewsbury. and in 1S44 published
 "Coningsby, or the New Generation, ' which
 achieved In 1847 he was returned as a
 member from Buckinghamshire, and in the
 same year he published 'Ixion in Heaven"
 He now began to be conspicuous in the t' ouse
 of Commons He greatly distinguished him
 self by a remarkable speech in which he at
 tackled Sir Robert Peel for alleged treachery
 to his party in the adoption of the free trade
 theory. There were several of these attacks
 and they established Disraeli's reputation as
 one of the most powerful debaters and most
 keen and polished satirists in the House. In
 1S49 he became the leader of the Conserva-
 tives in Parliament. In 1852, England rubbed
 her eyes at seeing the audacious Disrael
 Chancellor of the Exchequer, member of the
 Privy Council and leader of the ministerial
 party in the House of Commons. The Der by administration went out of office the same
 year and Disraei went with it. It came
 back again in 1858 and again Disraeli was made Chancellor of the Exchequer. In 1859 he brought forward his electoral reform measure, which included the extension of the suffrage to the whole of the educated class, without regard to property holdings. March 31 of the same year this bill was defeated. The Derby ad- ministration again snuffed out, and in
 1860 it was succeeded by. the Palmerston-
 Russell Cabinet, and on the death of Palmer
 ston, Oct. IS, 1865, by the Russell Gladstone
 ministry, which in turn was disrupted in
 1866 and succeeded by Derby again Prime
 Minister, and Disraeli at his old post of
 Chancellor. Disraei continued to be the
 acknowledged leader in the House, and he
 WAS the chief supporter of the bill which
 tended the right ot suffrage to all household
 CTS in borough, and to every person in a
 county who had a forty shilling freehold. In
 February, 1868, Earl Derby resigned and
 Disraei reached the goal of his ambition-he
 became Prime Minister of England ma
 jority of the members were, however, op-
 posed to the course of the ministry on the
 question of disestablishing the Church Of
 Ireland, and Parliament was dissolved. The
 feeling of the people manifested itself in the
 election of Liberal administration, Glad stone becoming Prime Minister. Disraeli
 now gave more of time to literary pursuits and in 1870 published "Lothair,' D his politi-
 co-religious novel, which so enraged the
 Fenians, Communists and Jesuits. and which
 had an enormous circulation, 8O,O0O in the
 United States alone. In 1868 Victoria offered
 Disraeli peerage which he declined, but ac- cepted for his wife who was made Visoount-
 ess Beaconsfield on Nov. 28, 1868. She died
 Dec. B, 1872, and Disraeli assumed the title of Lord Beaconsfeld. In February, 1874,
 came another Conservative triumph. Glad
 stones party was swept from power, and Disraei once more became the head of the administration. He held the office until the
 Liberal victory of 1879, wh n Gladstone
 again assumed the reins. It has been said of
 Disraeli by one of his admiring fellow coun-
 trymen: His career is romance, but 1t is
 8 romance that teaches thousand useful and
 noble lessons, that will have power in times
 when the party passions of today shall be
 cold to fire many young soul with the
 highest ambition, and to fill many a tender
 heart with sympathy for him whose story it
 records" And so it was; for by genius and
 energy, unaided by wealth or family connec
 tions, moreover of Jewish descent, he made
 himself leader of the House of Commons
 Minister of Finance in the most commercial
 of countries, and twice Prime Minister of one
 of the mightiest of empires.