The British nation a history / by George MWrong . he wrote clevernovels and satires, and was full of reckless and extravagantaudacity. He began as a Radical and ended as a Con-servative, while Gladstone was first a Tory, then a Peelite,and in the end almost if not quite a Eadical. Disraelislight banter and easy adjustment of his policy to chang-ing conditions made him seem to Gladstone with hisstrong convictions an opportunist without conscience. In1869 Gladstone for the first time became Prime that time a thoroughgoing Liberal, he vigorously at-tacked domestic abuses, and especial
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . he wrote clevernovels and satires, and was full of reckless and extravagantaudacity. He began as a Radical and ended as a Con-servative, while Gladstone was first a Tory, then a Peelite,and in the end almost if not quite a Eadical. Disraelislight banter and easy adjustment of his policy to chang-ing conditions made him seem to Gladstone with hisstrong convictions an opportunist without conscience. In1869 Gladstone for the first time became Prime that time a thoroughgoing Liberal, he vigorously at-tacked domestic abuses, and especially urged ecclesiastical,educational, and legal reform.* But in 1874 an electionbrought Disraeli back into power, and his second minis-try lasted until 1880. Lnlike Gladstone, he was alwaysinterested in foreign and imperial rather than in merelyhome questions. He pleased the queen greatly in 1876by securing for her from Parliament the title of Empress claimiiij details of these measures are discussed in the next chapter. V ^ 1- T E MODERN ERA 539. William Ewart Gladstone (). of India, and shortly after this he himself became Earl ofBeaconsfield. He had every sign of royal favour, and hiscritics said that in return he promised to make the queenthe arbitress of Europe, and thatshe should rule in England withauthority like that of Gladstone, on the other hand,the queen had something likedread. He frightened her withhis vehemence, overworked herwith the volume of business whichhe submitted, and, as Beaconsfieldsaid, treated the sovereign like apublic department, while he him-self humoured her as a 1878 Beaconsfield seemed im-mensely popular when he returnedfrom the Congress of Berlin, hav-ing averted war with Russia and secured peace withhonour, but, notwithstanding this and the queens fa-vour, he was overwhelmingly defeateji. in the election of1880, and he died in 1881. Lord Salisbury succeededhim as Conservative leader and found his chief task inre
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