Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1881 — Ingersoll on Beaconsfield. [ARTICLE]

Ingersoll on Beaconsfield.

CoL Ingersoll, in speaking of Lord Beaconsfield as a glutton, says : “ Most of his characters are like himself—puppets moved by the string of self-interest. The men are adroit, the women mostly heartless. They catch each other with false bait. They have great worldly wisdom. The virtue and vice are mechanical. They have hearts like clocks —filled with wheels and springs. The author winds them up. In his novels, Disraeli allows us to enter the green room of his heart. We see the ropes, the pulleys and the old masks. In all things, in politics and in literature, he was cold, cunning, accurate and successful. His books will, in a little while, follow their author to the grave