Sketches

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Sketches is by Benjamin Disraeli. The contents list The Carrier Pigeon, The Consul’s Daughter, Walstein; or a Cure for Melancholy, and pieces headed Ibrahim Pasha, The Court of Egypt and The Valley of Thebes. The chapter headed A Cruel Dart has the fair captive of Charolois keeping up a correspondence with Lothair respecting her escape with the help of the beautiful bird.

A passage on Mehemet Ali says he listened to the sagacious counsel of France and endeavoured to obtain the recognition of his independence, while the Porte would make no terms and reduced Ibrahim, after an armistice of five months, to conquer her again. A passage asks whether there is any probability of a different disposition of property in England, asks what is the prime characteristic of the English mind, and says the writer apprehends that it may safely be decided to be industry.

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Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) was a British statesman who twice served as Prime Minister, and also a successful novelist. His fiction blended romance, politics, and sharp social observation.