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THE PREMIER NOVELIST.

The * London Society,' in discussing the merits of the Hon. Ben. Disraeli, remarks : — " Some of the characters thrown off in his works of fiction have had their counterpart realised by the Disraeli of public life. Although the Elder Disraeli has been long esteemed as an author, nevertheless it is truly written that " fifty years ago there were few boys in the island whose prospects of % career were less brilliant than those of the Younger Disraeli, and in whose way lay more numerous, more formidable obstacles. Without rank, without wealth, without the hereditary passions aud prejudices of an Englishman — with gpeclative audacity, where Mr Bull expects slow-footed caution, and glittering rhetoric where substantial John wants figures and facts — Mr Disraeli seemed to be unfortunate in the gifts he wanted and in the gifts he possessed. And yet he has triumphed, and now * Hyperion like, on the summit shakes his glittering shafts of war.' Disraeli in I hjs , public ;.. career has shewn the characteristics of his mind to be daring

and original, no wonder that when he i wa> Disraeli the Younger his mind should be brimful and overflowing with fancies soaring on the wings of an extravagant imagination. But resolution, toil,* and perseverance have eliminated the effervescence of youth and produced a senator 1 \v!>o is heard ' in the British House oi ComTtfons. The digest of the speech of the then Chancellor of me Exchequer at the Edinburgh banquet is admirable. Never was statement metre true than the assertion he made about 'barring been educating his party '—nay, more, he has been and still is educating the Legislature, the Conservatives, the Whigs and Eadicals too— all are ' encompassed by his magnificent generalisations. By outbidding Gladstone, by astounding Bright, he taught, in a few select lessons the Whigs and Eadicals of the British Legislature how to pass a Eeform Bill. Well done Contarini ! You have successfully maintained the 'just claims of the Conservative party to be the popular confederation of Great Britain.' We have only space to allude to fashion at Longchamps, Inter-tfniversity Games, A Levee at St. James. My Lady Disdain, ! written in the strain of f Lady Vere de Yere.' The University Boat Sace all written in an interesting style, and abounding tfith paragraphs pleasant and to the purpose.

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Southland Times, Issue 1038, 14 October 1868, Page 3

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THE PREMIER NOVELIST. Southland Times, Issue 1038, 14 October 1868, Page 3

THE PREMIER NOVELIST. Southland Times, Issue 1038, 14 October 1868, Page 3

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