Arizona republican., 1901-11-18
parliamentary act. and as entertaining

parliamentary act, ana as entertaining E
 as novel.
 But if we are not to have the life on any terms, why should we not have at least some of Disraeli's letters. One of my fayorite volumes is Lord Bea-
 consfield's Correspondence with His Sister, I think I enjoy 1t as much as Thackeray used to enjoy "Howelrs Let ters,'' which was one of his bedside books. The delightful egotism and gos- sip that gleam through Disrealis let ters make them perfect in their way. and as concerns himself he was true prophet. In 1S33 he wrote Heard Ma
 cauley's best speech, Shiel and Charles Grant. Macaulay admirable: but be- tween ourselves I could floor them all. This entre nousi I never was more confident of anything than that I could carry everything before men in that
 house. The time will come" This. be it remembered. four years before he en- tered parliament. and before he had
 had much, if any. experience on the
 hustings.
 As Macaulay said of Dorothy Os-
 borne's letters l say of these-"I only
 wish there were twice as many more"
 They are human documents that throw much light on the society and public men of London in the early 30's. They are not so full as Macaulay's letters to his sisters during pretty much the
 same period, but they reveal the writ CT far more than Macaulay's do. "Coningsby" is also a favorite with me. It is a great and deeply interest ing novel and abounds in plot. char acter, adventure. and epigrams. It
 contains some real portraits. among
 Croker. Theodore Hook. and the cyni- al nd of liar nrd
 Disraeli's duke of Monmouth ani
 Thackeray's marquis of Steyne are DOT
 traitures of the same person.
 Disrael wrote eleven novels in all beginning in 1925 with Vivian Grey"
 and ending with "Endymion'' in 1880.
 These, however, were but stepping stones to his greater deeds.
 The political career of Benjamin Dis . raeli. earl of Beaconsfield, is one of the
 marvels of history. a romance so fas
 cinating that there are few persons not familiar with it. The story of his life is more entrancing than his novels. Ev- cry one has heard of the failure of his first speech, how he was nooted down and refused a hearing. and how he turned upon his assailants and shouted, above all the clamor, that the time would come when they would hear him.
 Well known, too, are the epigrams and satire with which he stung Sir Robert reel into frenzy, and finall- drove him from power. He began as an adventurer. a despised Jew-for, though a Christian, he was always a Jew, proud of his race and lineage-and he ended as prime minister of England and the possessor Of one of it's proud est titles.
 When we consider the times in which he lived, the obstacles of caste and pre- judice that he overcame, and the na- tion's applause that he at last won, not even Napoleon's life seems more incredible or astounding. His rank as q statesman must be left to future age to determine, but his enemies did not question his superb qualities as orator and party leader. When he died it was discovered that he was a great Eng lishman. and no tribute to his praise was more just or more eloquent than tfrat pronounced in the house of com mons by his lifelong opponent and rival, MT. Gladstone. Nothing is more cer- tain, also, in his strange career than that he foresaw it from he beginning. Five years before he entered the house of commons, when he was one of the fashionable dandies of London society, the companion of d'Orsay and Bulwer