New-York tribune., 1896-11-15

ment Of distress and that tears were rolling down
ma bccome Yet II was an absolutely lmpassive
face face at iha, moment still His tears were the
any InfycS1 sSps M OF emotion en- IT, rain upon the gray
There are those who ,!ntan that Dsraeli was always
another in nearly every situation Yet the most in
vserate detraction will stumble at the fancy that al
SCI In the posture above described for the sake Of
imposing on single observer: and that. ,oo person
80 80 .nconsiderane as the visitor speak or But II
Inere vas no aectat!on here we cannot believe that
bNt Mas 9G,n Ta hs great deficiency per
OF affection that affected
DIsRAEI.rs EXTRAORDINARY DRESS
u pisraelis affec;atons. and the extravaganza Of
his attire in his budding days made so large a
pari OF his private history. II Is probably because ne
meant them 50 much. and because they really are
9lews OF sort to very battling character. Mr.:
lroqde IS ure thar. with his black satin shirts and
the listener to look Tor only folly from him and when
rs beng utterly unlocked Tor from me s"2 fSure
sT! 9f s 'r1h Is ss!eT put ancy when M FrSude
assumed" i was purposed afrectation for tho
greater part. by, yet based upon an unaffected de-
l'gh, In personal esnds upon a ,aste when i'm
perfectly aware OF It's worst Offences and yet more
Il was not only to s,arile and impress the world
that the young DIsrae paraded hs eccentrci,ies o.
lhem. II 10 his sober father Isaac Dfsrae tha:
he wrote when on his travels (he then A man OF
sSos the oec IKE Il E n afe f cn r5n H9gsh
to- The same 5 rand that we read OF his tTo canes
cane as the gun fires and hope 10 carry them both on
wands produce owe TO them more attention than
to being the supposed author of-what is ii?-I for
unmagna5c in IN binding % unks hat o, his aiE foos
in old brown caO-who huI his father must be told
me from Paris is the most successfu thing /
eyer wS-c~; or Of the costamsrspart English;
..wondcrlul enect on the people of Janina.? The
Grand Vzicr himself remarked and evidently
ct I'd it. Curious that while D!sraeli Is revelling in
these ami similar gores ne can call RuIwer "simp
tuous and fantastic"
THE CLEVEREST OF ALL
These are ory few of many signs. repeated over
a long stretch Of years, ha; though Dsraelis
bizarre attire WAS calculated means OF attention.
It pleased something ,, in HI; rsmarkabIy sane re-, mind
d"cd, he scornfully denied the back satin shirts:
gloves. stupid and ridiculous inventions, he did
SO In letter addr"sed TO the writer of these pages
first mot MIN Is not the only one OF is nearly in
credible kind: and Lord Dalling (Sir Henry Buiwer,
which is more illustrative OF this high matter than
any OF them; wherefore 1t is repeated here though
body has read, one OF Disraes first friends in the
world OF genius and fashion was Sir Edward Lyiton
much at that time OF Edwards Amazingly brilliant
now friend that We were the more disnclined to
AZ length, however; Sir Edward got up a little
at pry he % ~ ho Of das G o tho TO
Piccadilly hotels. There was my brother. Alex
"aT or %e a"d "o Mr. nn %n Sn
for Mr. Dsracl did not enhance the pleasure OF
nnce predisposo us in His favor. lie wore green
velvet trousers. a cnnary-coored waistcoat. low
hair in ringiets." forget how the coat was de-
S9 onc 1t %aS % M no ns more n sdt
twenty years old We were all-if you will allow
me TO include mysef-all OF the road 10 distinction
all clever all ambitious and al With perfect con-
eel, Of ourselves YET H. on leaving the table; we
was the cleveres OF the party. there would have
',,l beel only one .s answer We should have been
In considering what Disrae, was, rather than
what he did. the more noticeable thing in all this
Is not the success. but the attempt; mean the
at , m aWbaes to bs "o
what gave Disraeli his distinction every other
he was earnest for it's good and is renown; but he
was un- English. quite, Bred in Ens'and. where all
completely len; and Therefore his calculated SUR
pri,es overshot the mark In % way and to degree
ton. Of his were pushed to an extreme in order to
make az K attention on himself
tcntlality; but. as have said before ho could not
se to sGh sss he dad
OF those among whom he was making, way.
shrank from an mex experiment Which might ' possibly %
profit him. but at cost too dreadful for British
At the east his English sensses Would have
warned him OF the oyermuch. arresting the expert
which did him much more Of lasting harm than
temporary good The tradition Of these absurdities
Nor did he quite rid himself OF the mistake.
Late In life, on the famous occasion when he de-
CARED himself "on the side OF the angels" he
dropped In upon grave diocesan assembly at Ok
ford in black velvet shooting jacket with wide
awake" hat
WHAT GLADSTONE SAID.
Here purposcd affectation quite on the orig.
inal plan. Other varieties OF It seemed to have no
object In the world except mystiication; and not ,
always, by any means. was the mystifying to his
own glory. His constant practice OF ALTERATION
and his professed contempt for II can be explained
but hardly such bewdering contradictions as he |
sometimes launched with an evident intention OF |
having them talked about. or such was the |
story that went tho round OF the gossip journals
lately with half the point omitted, OF two en- |
phatic and Numerically opposite judgments on |
English art--the one publicly delivered at Royal
Academy dinner. the other addressed dfteen min. |
utes afterward to Mr.. Browning. with the nrst |
foecch still IN his cara In that speech wass