Mr. Grant Duff on Thursday attacked Mr. Disraeli in a
speech full of biting hits, but marked by his usual want of intellectual suavity. He has endless light, but, in speeches, no sweetness. He asked if Mr. Disraeli really had said that foreign affairs were left in a discreditable condition by the last Ministry, and had then asked the last Minister for Foreign Affairs to join his Cabinet. He taunted the Premier with " wild words" especially "after dinner," declared that foreigners did not understand as Englishmen did the "linguistic somersaults" of the "great political Leotard," but unhappily believed him to be sometimes serious. So far all was fair, but Mr. Grant Duff continued, "There was some little time ago an unfortunate man on the Continent,—a most eminent political writer,—who attempted to follow the career of the right honourable gentleman, and ho arrived at the conclusion that he was a demigod. Unfortunately, however, he became insane im- mediately after." The terrible misfortune of a man like Eugene Forcade ought not to have been used to point a jest.
