CANNING AND DISRAELI IN ROMANCE.
[TO THE EDITOR OF TILE SPIOTATOB..1
Sra,—I have been reading romances in which the personalities of Canning and Disraeli are depicted or shadowed forth. Can- ning is a prominent person in Plumer Ward's Ds Vers, and is supposed to underlie Aubrey Vere in My Novel, by Lord Lytton. Disraeli is Mowbray in Thakttla the Great Commoner, published anonymously by Sir John Skelton (" Shirley ") and dedicated to Disraeli. He is one of the characters in Behind Use Scenes, by the unhappy Rosina, Lady Lytton, and in D'Horsay or the Polies of the Day, by a Man of Fashion, which appeared anony- mously in 1844. He appears under his own name in The School for Saints and Robert Orange, by the late Mrs. Craigie. It is said that he is shadowed forth in the hero of Quisante, by Anthony Hope, although, if he is so, the picture is a very misleading one. Are there any other novels in which Canning or Disraeli
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