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This is an uncommon title in the Disraeli collection, steeped in controversy.
MacKnight - political writer and journalist had published, anonymously, The Right Honourable Benjamin Disraeli M.P.: a literary and political biography (1854), which attacks Disraeli as an opportunistic adventurer who is corrupting English political life, cites numerous embarrassing passages from Disraeli's novels, criticises his view that the Jews are a superior race, and derides his claim to be a disciple of Edmund Burke (qv). The book went through two editions (Disraeli took it seriously enough to co-author an anonymous review in his own newspaper), and it served as a resource for later critics of Disraeli such as T. P. O'Connor (qv). MacKnight later pointed out that the book praised Gladstone (then a Peelite rather than a whig) as proof of the depth and sincerity of his own Gladstonianism.
