Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1920 — Dizzy's Rap at His Old Foe. [ARTICLE]

Dizzy's Rap at His Old Foe.

Disraeli’s unpublished novel will be read with eager interest •hy all who care to learn, his view of his great rival, Gladstone, who is therein portrayed as Joseph Toplady Falconet. In denying him any sense of humor the novelist does not exceed the privileges of poetic license, for certainly his model was always in, grim, serious earnest. In declaring, however, that he was never seen to smile Disraeli somewhat maliciously exaggerates, for Gladstone’s smile was not infrequent, and was among his many personal charms. But it must be remembered that the novel was written when the two statesmen had long been settledi and unrelenting foes, and Dizzy* was a good hater. —London Chronicle. '