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,, 81 LORD BEACONsFIELD.
LONDON, April 10, $50 a. m.-Lord
Beacenstield Is dead.
'4 The grandfather of Benjamin Dis
raeli came to England from Venice in
l747. Up to the geud of the, fifteenth
century MS family had lived in Spain,
where, as we learn from "Conings-
by, the 'Jewsib"were treated with
tenderness and consideratisn'' until
.the LnQuisition sppeared.''' Among
those VINO were, driven from Spain
were the ancestors OF the present
Lord Beecohs6eld. They settled in
Venice, aud und derlthe mild aud ,tol-
Grant rule Of that republic for m ore
than two hundred years they traded
in peace. Toward the middle Of the
eighteenth century the altered cir
|cumstances9iiof England stattracted
many Hebrews, to. England, among
whom was Benjamin Disraeli. He
was naturalised soon after the failure
OF the second Stuart rebellion, and
swas nthenAl8h years of agesy When,
EseyentselAd dyaa.ss laterr-lps 1765-he
married. he Was already 3 man of
fortune. LIS ssbn Isaac .isisfaeh, au- au-
Ettor Of the 'CGriosities Of Eiteraturc,'
married, in 1909, assistersQf george
(Joshussl Basevi,. the wellaknewn He
Z iSds5ssd III Il ths e FiH~i1iasse GhGfnss
tmuSeImo She lived 10 the age of,
o2, dying dh i847,oueyear' l,sfore her
hasband: eEp sahema were! bornE four
Children; the, eldest. Sarah, on the
Och Of December, 1902; Benjamin, the
a LATE EARL OF BEAcoNsFIELD. 'e
on: the '21st Of DecembSesrr,,n % 1soi2not
1906; as usually gwen = Rsiph in 1909.
PSnd James tn 1873. . AS Oecame the
eonlof s1Hebrew.s Benjsmins was re-
sceived into the coveuapt, of Abraham
by Daniel Absrbanel Limdo. rela-,
tive Of his family, and aaPortUguese
|tnerehanti Hof bighu II staadiDg .s with
that event, however, qhis, PRACTICAL
cennsction with Judaism comes to
an end. Isaac Disraeli. had returned
from the CONTINENT saturated with
fthe stfeories of Rousseau and AVel-
Itsi sess aud Mr., Piecistto tells fus. that
his attention to his religious duties
was always extremely. lax. ss
Under the" care Of some Si mis-
|smothef' g seomiections;t anu at the in
stigatiOnyit isi said, OF Samuel Rogers,
the sbanker-poef,uBsn amin Disraeli
was baptized at the, parish church Of
| st. Aiidrew, Hoiborh, On the 31st Of
July y,H1sI7:' The register records that
he wassthen 'ssaid to be abou tt12years
As regards e,dydIssiM NJ. oDi,iarsei oDiasrsseeis educa.
tioi, the particulars accessible are
siHgularly nmeagre. 1t was known
| thatshDswasCplseeda At All early 8ge at
q boarding school, at Winchester, and
shortly afterward under the charge
tof, 4 dissenting infiiister at NJ althani-
stow.e With itkosstwo fact the record
ends.g aN0ypublic school can boast of
EhaVtng taught him no university is
proud. to, enroll his name among those
or her sons Even the names sf his
Tutors are forgotten, if we except
that Of his fathers to- whose varied
erNltitlon and brilliant scholarship he
IunQuestionably owed much. AT al
early age, IN cOmpliaiIce with the
wish Of his father, he entered the Of
kfce' Of Gessrs. Swain % Co.'s the at
torneys, Of Frederick's place., Old
lJewry, His stay here was, however,
bys his brother, who afterward OBJ
ftained zone of thosei Offices for which
a. legal ieducationels els An, Indispensable le
qualification. He was meyer articled i,
and from the 14 aH'Ae 70 '9E'2
FIRST EvINCED AN AVERSION
to, ,"the desks dull wood" preferring,
according to one ACCOUNT to- read
works of imaglnati0n4r rather than to
! fill his mind with Jprecedents and
| formulas. e'st
"Vlvian Gray" made its appearance
III two instalmsnts, the first, efllhres
volumes, beingspublishliu7 in 1926, " hen
| it's author was in his 22d year; and
the sesoUd, of two, III 1927. II ap-
peared anonymously. but it fairly
took the town by storm. Its popu-
tartty cOntlnties ito this q day. It's
faults are The lfaults of youth and iu.
l9xperlence; its merits those OF
genius Of no Ordinary Kind AS
soon as itappeared,9 society set itself
to appropriate tho characters of the
tnoyel to. the living personages, ana a
pamphlet call "a Key, to Vivian
Grays" reached its tenth edition be-.
fore the end Of 1827A-a proof tof the
astonishing popularity Of the book.
lasTne author Of e''Yiyians Gray"
l-aWoke to find himself famous, and,
with astonishing self-restraint, fled
from his new-found9 nhonors to
imsture Eahis.4I mind by w fnrther
travel and observation. Ere, he de-
parted he gave to the world another
work, this time Conceived IN a diff
ferent vein: This was tile ssVoyage of
Capt. Pspanilla," ,"aIjlOo lsuia 20
5 a1om "A BRILLIANT SATIRE a 90.
on the manners and customs. of 1928.
1t has never, been reprinted and is
now exceedingly scarce, The scene
OF the adventures is the Isle OF Fans
TASTE, and in the stilr stranger island
ofpraibieusias 1.-THE capital of w which
ia the city of Hubbsbub. When it is
mentioned that the last name means
London. the second England, and the
first ireland. tire nature ofthe satire
will probably be understo od. a. g0a
H The young, author. had already
visited the continent, but he now
entered upon a more extended pill
grimage. "Captain Popamlla'' was
Published early in 1929, and by the
autumn "Disraeli the Younger" as
he delighted to be called in those
days, was on his way to the Mystic
Nest. His travelling scompanions
were his sister aud her betrothed, a
Mr.. Meredith. who unhappily died
before the time appointed for their
marriage. With them Mr.. Disraeli,
spent the winter at Constantinople.
In 1880 he was in AlbaIial;' in the
following year in Syria and there he
appeared to-have parted from his
sister,Nho relurning to London, falls
out of the story of her illustrious
brothers. life. On the death of Mr..
Meredith she became her fathers con.
stanta companion and7,trusted am An,
uensis, and will best be remembered
in the future by the touching verses
to her preserved in The "Curiosities
of Literature" .ass.uss Tass -.
Beside, the, ,"Reyolutionary Epic"
begun rather than matured Disraeli
the Younger sent home from the