New-York tribune., 1896-11-15
A STRANGE MAN.
THE CURIOUS CHARACTER OF BENJA-
MIN DIsRAEL1. LORD BEAcoNsFIELD.
WITH SOME ANECDOTES IN ILLUSTRATION OF
THE SAME.

WITH SOME ANECDOTES IN ILLUSTRATION OF
THE SAME.
Frederick Greenwood in The Cornh.
II is a charge against Disraeli that he had no
affections and was either born vittout or had con:
ID ss se Of ss o. p
has yet traced any indulgence
1d rh1 IS ns Ss S6 for ere
plantations apart from defect Of sympathy in him. ,.
Character cha D ' Within their bound his afes
tons deep and tender: all that Is knoWn hI oI
friendships no doubt they were what they are gen
orally niagned-very few indeed: Many ana In In.
scheme OF life though 1t need not be supposed that
he thought then any & saGrre IN ever a nTessnsd
to his mind that of intoerable invasion. Yet.
4 hf Is fs at hand and %d'ss sH
world will learn. think. that Disraslrs few frcnd.
thePe VIII Will be- Vno no compte portrait o prae yet
awhile All thought OF publishing his life or any
ago BY him him who. with most authority for the task
Is by far the most competent to lis performances e
and the finished state OF confusion in which they
@ aRsn dn snsr have
that he seems to have aestroyed netting IKE
came into his hands.
HOW DIsRAELI wEPT
Where so much Is in doubt and so little known. 1t
may be useful TO take from my own recollecons
scene quite unconirroatory of the notion that Dis
historical interest in the story too
he, who. going before Lord Woseley in Ashantee-
na os soct9 90 c }nfr or Iays in aaons o
peril did much more for the success Of the expeai,
whose voices Terc weak and did not carry TAR
It none the less highly. perhaps. because II was an
Independent discovery. Of his own. At some time
nny H hat accident or pocy wond throw Eng
land into TIC conflict. the Prime Minister sent fer
It was horonghy characcrstic Of Dsrae to make
quiet study Of what could be done; putting him
What he desired was a free range OF inquiry, with
chance Of new lights, and not the settled dcta Of
any time a sheet OF fooscap. Home came; to-
gsiher they sat down 70 the maps and M said Mr.
no2 5oGH fGund that an nG In Hnd Of v
i could not have been long after this that Colonel
rat sPs @ sa. day ss See MI Ds
s oI onG him to h Il ay wbo
was spread upon the table where he stood. and.
% h 'saa m %orG ws ssen sv Sen Mha S
lsd bad news" The voice was so agitated-hs. Mr..
national calamity had overlooked and was now to
near a Of Of You know that Home Is gone?' he added.
many expressions OF aGectionate admiration The
WORD WORD mat struck me most was II destined him TO
iireside il quito overcome. There he was silent.
;,I nnd thc silence vas such that for time dt not
that the hands extended on his knees tapping
UP ana down from the wrist In wclknown move
nent or distress, and that tears rolling down
,l" & awiuI rum when even IN those days his face
had become Yet IL was absolutely impassve
lace AT that moment still. His tears were the
only signs OF emotion on II: rain upon the gray
defaccd features OF the Sphinx
n ose who m antain that Disrae was always
an actor ana an actor ne certainly In way or
another IN nearly every situation Yet the most in
ye,srae detraction viii stumble at the fancy that at
fat-plst 10 o'clock In the morning. he could put him
sci IN me posture above described for the sake OF
imposing on single observer. and that oo a person
80 Inconsideratle as the visitor speak OF. But II
here was no afectatlor here believe that
)lsra"Ii was born with the great deficiency. per-
maps: that distinguished SidonIa Il was the absence
OF affection that affected