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Show THE CITIZEN 8 gUHIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIUIIIUIIIimMIIUIIIIHIHIIIIIIIHIIIIIIHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIUIIIIIIIIIIIUUIIIIIIIIUIIUIUIIIIIIIIIUIIIIlllllllllimillUMimUUmMIUUUIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIUHMI AMONG THE NEW BOOKS I ec I I iiiiiiiiiiiiMmiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiuiiiiuiuiiiiuiiHuiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiuiim THE ! , ' LIFE DIS-- ; OF BENJAMIN RAELI. EARL OF BEACONSFIELD. By George Earl Buckle in succession to NY. F. Monypenny. Volumes V and VI. Published by The Macmil- Ian Company, New York. Volumes V and VI, the final volumes of this notable work, cover the period from 1868 to 1881. During half of that period Disraeli was prime minister engaged in the task of consolidating the British empire. ' The volumes are especially, engross-- . ing at a time when the empire of the iater Victorian era has been enlarged by the world war and rendered more unwieldy. To the dominions of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India, the Earl of Beaconsfield gave a unity of power which it does not possess today. True the Irish question was almost as acute in his day as it is now and there were occasionally uprisings of magnitude and grave menace in India, but the world generally was In a state of comfortable balance whereas today the equilibrium has been destroyed by an unparalleled cataclysm and may be restored only after the wreck of all the remaining empires.' As our Bolshevik friends would say, .those were Bourgeoise times." The sifiug Victoria was the personification of the "middle class views, which the radicals deride and which they tell us will never more control the worlds affairs. Disraeli himself had an oriental imagination that soared above the middle class smugness and visualized the greatest empire in the tide of time. There was something almost grotesquely comic in the idea, of making that . straight-laced- , hearth-and-hom- e Eng- lishwoman the symbol of a dazzling imperialism. It was a good deal like taking an English squire out of his rural setting and making him the Maharaja of Capurthala. Lady Augusta Stanley told Clarendon that Dizzy writes daily letters to the queen in his best novel style, telling her every scrap of political news dressed up to serve his own purpose, and every scrap of social gossip cooked to amuse her. She declares that she never had such letters in her life, which is probably true, and that she never before knew everything. Disraeli lost his wife after thirty-thre- e years of married life. The world had laughed at her gaucheries, her odd looks and sayings, at the clothes she wore and the stories &he told. But there can be no doubt that her husband held her in the highest esteem. In May, 1872, he writes to Montagu Cory: -- Miladl is suffering less. She went to Lady Waldegraves last night, but was obliged to come home almost immediately. .But, as she boastfully says, her illness was not found .out. She delighted Fortcs-cu- e by telling him that she had heard him very much praised. lie pressed her very much when and where. She replied, "It was in bed. Sir William gives a good account of her today, and seems to think he has remedied the pain, which is all we can hope for, and has sanctioned, and even advised, her to go to Court; but I don't think he allows enough for her extreme weakness. However, I shall be with her today; last night she was alone, which I think fearful. II. of C. May 9, '72. The visit to Court was not successful. She was suffering as she went, and was taken so unwell there that we had to retreat precipitately; but without much observation. Knowing the haunts of the palace a little, I got hold of some female attendants who were very ... serviceable. Carlton Club, May 14, '72. I have been, and am, so harassed, that I have been quite unable to write a line and this will be sad stuff. Nothing encouraging at home. To see her every day weaker and weaker is heartrending. I have had, like ail of us, some sorrows of this kind; but in every case, the fatal illness has been apparently The sudden, and comparatively short. circumstances such under shock is great no doubt, but there is a rebound in the nature of things. But to witness this gradual death of one, who has shared so long, and so completely, my life entirely unmans me. . Beaconfields papers was found a touching letter of farewell to her husband, written many years before, in view of the high probability that she, who was the elder by twelve years, would be the first to die: Among Lady Minister to a Mistress of the Horse can not say his soul Is his own. Romantic devotion breathes in Dlsraels language to both sisters; but the Oriental extravagance of his sentiments is beyond a doubt more marked when he is addressing Lady Bradford. The correspondence with Lady Chesterfield, in spite of the offer and refusal, preserves on the whole an even tone of deeply affectionate friendship. But Lady Bradford was often taken aback by Disraelis septuagenarian ardour, and embarrassed by his Incessant calls at her house in Belgrave Square and his unending demands on her time; though she as well as her sister, could not but be flattered by the assiduous attentions of one who was for the greater part of the last eight years of his life the most famous and admired man in the country. June 6, 1856. It is curious that Disraeli wished to marry a second time at the age of sixty-e- In 1874 he wrote, I feel fortunate in serving a female sovereign. I owe everything to woman; and if, in the sunset of life, I have still a young heart, it is due to that Influence. For a time his choice wavered between the two sisters, Lady Chesterfield and Lady Bradford: ight. So necessary to Disraelis life was the intimacy thus established the delightful society, as he told Lady Chesterfield in March, 1874, of the two persons I love most in the world that he endeavored to make it permanent by asking Lady Chesterfield to marry him, so that he might grapple one lady to his heart as his wife, and the other as his sister. She not unnaturally refused. Even had she been willing, when she had passed her seventieth birthday, to marry once more, she must have speedily realized that she did not occupy the first place in Disraeirs affections. For though it was to Lady Chesterfield, as the only sister who was free, that he proposed marriage, it was to Lady Bradford that he was most tenderly attached. He wrote to her more than twice as many letters as he did to her sister, sometimes, when in office, sending her two, or even three, in one day, by special messengers from Downing Street or from the bench. Such he wrote, may wait at your messengers, house the whole day, and are the slaves of your will. A messenger from a Prime of the 1874, under stances. It was a triumph peculiar of romanc.e but it ys . The proposed visit to India of the Prince of Wales gave Tise to considerable difficulties, although it was considered wise that the journey should many personal and political diffi those personal relations between the Brit lsh throne and the princes and peoples a India, on which Disraeli had Insisted a the time of the mutiny. Disraeli, at tk queens request, undertook the manage ment of the affair, with Salisburys a sistance; and a thorny and anxious bust ness he found it. There was the critics A Prince of question of expense. circum- was also a tragedy. The hero had all that he had played for; but fruition had been delayed till he was in his seventieth year and had lost the partner of his life and of his ambition. Even on his first attainment of the Premiership in 1868, he had said to W. F. Haydon in reply to congratulations, For me it is twenty years too late. Give me your age and your How much more fervently did health. he echo that cry of Too late to those who congratulated him six years afterPower! he was heard once to wards! mutter In his triumphal year of 1878; it has come to me too late. There were days when, on waking, I felt I could move dynasties and governments; but that has passed away. That youth was the period of action; that to be granted adequate scope for your genius when young was the supreme gift of heaven, had been his creed. Now, however, much he might call in art to assist nature, he was Indubitably becoming old; though he might still be fresh in spirit, he was not physically comparable to Palmerston when he reached the Premiership at a similar age in 1855, or to Gladstone when he took up the burden a second time at the age of seventy in 1880. Tough as Dlsraels fibre had proved through the struggles of nearly fifty years, he had never been really robust, and indeed in early manhood he had undergone a prolonged period of grave disability. TTis intimate notes to his wife from the House of Commons form a constant record of indisposition, and of requests for pills and other remedies or prophylactics. Then in 1867 he had had a serious attack of gout, and he had suffered intermittently since, notably from bronchial trouble in 1870. cu in culties Involved, would gladly have recall :ui ed it. Her Prime Minister and India: Ila Secretary, however, recognized the ini ai mense political Importance or esrabllshim it Disraeli again became prime minis- ter in ev While the question of the external se it curlty of India on its northwest frontie lc hung fire, Disraeli was deeply engaged it tr promoting its Internal consolidation aa ivi contentment by arranging for a persona rai visit of the heir to the throne. The origi ivl nal idea appears not to have been his, bu: Jl to have come from the Prince of Wai'e ie, himself, who had already visited the prin. m cipal colonies and rightly thought it hi at duty now to proceed to India. The quee lie gave her assent; but, on reconsideratloi ila . al-wa- My Own Dear Husband. If I should depart this life before you, ieave orders that we may be buried in the same grave at whatever distance you may die from England. And now, God bless you, my kindest, dearest! You have been a perfect husband to me. Be put by my side in the same grave. And how, farewell, my dear Dizzy. Do not live alone, dearest. Some one I earnestly hope you may find as attached to you as your own devoted Mary Anne. be undertaken for its political effect as well as for the education of the prince: Wale-mus- t not move in India in a nf 1a1 llii iiu )ii la fur Pri lex mesquii manner. Everything must be done on ar am Imperial scale, as the queen and her mi- of nister agreed. "The simplicity of arrange- tax ments which might suit a visit to our tyis own fellow subjects In the Colojiies, Di- tioi sraeli said in the House of Commons, wouL: it not equally apply in the case of India bet There was that remarkable and deeply ier rooted characteristic of Oriental manner? the exchange of presents between vis- eve itors and their hosts. Presents of cere- (ion monial could rightly be discouraged; be the Prince would visit immense popula I tions adn be the guest, or make the ame: cquaintance, of manv chiefs and rulers, an' he must be placed in a position to e- tur xercise those spontaneous feelings, chara- que cteristic of his nature, of generosity an "en splendour, which his own character, an the character of the country likewise, re It Disraeli accord end quires to be gratified. a vote in addition to tt the Ingly proposed cost of the journey, of 60. charge for the qe 000 pounds for the Princes personal' e- nou xpenses during the visit. abli 4 e . of Disraeli was very anxious that tk queen should assume the title of Em press of India, but whether his mail object was to appeal to the sentimen: of India or to please the queen mu? remain a matter of some conjecture Of course there were difficulties witt Parliament and also, curiously enougii with the Prince of Wales, who complained that he had not been informed of the proposed measure: Over the Royal Titles Bill Minister were much more successful than over tlv Slave Circular, though they were met a' I has or i tt? tjor tien ltd hip et ii ten tie Kin Kin fen; low was dedi The 2IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIII!; I SALT LAKE THEATRE E Three Nights, Starting Thursday, Nov. 25. 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