CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



Introductory — Masters of the Buckhounds and other Eminent 

 Sportsmen — Mowbray Morris and Lord Southampton — 'Varsity 

 Races, Roger Palmer and the Crimean Steeplechase — Professor 

 Neate — The Romance of Cheslyn Hall — Lord Chesterfield and 

 the Election of Speaker Abercrombie — Grant's Picture of the 

 Royal Hunt — Count D'Orsay : his Change of Clothes, his 

 Knife-spinning, and his Sketches ... ... ... p. \ 



CHAPTER II. 



Elections at the Time of the Reform Bill of 1832 — Aylesbury 

 Contests — " Potwallers " and the Ancient Franchise — Bribery 

 and Treating — The Chiltern Hundreds — Anecdotes about Sir 

 Richard Bethell : his Election Contests and Expulsion from 

 the Conservative Club — A " Tie " between Smith and Went- 

 worth — My Hunt Breakfast — How Arkwright made his 

 Fortune — Lord Nugent's Election Fights — Winthrop Praed — 

 — Voters and Refreshments : Curious Account-keeping — 

 Amersham Elections and the Reward for the Fair ... p. 20 



CHAPTER III. 



Disraeli's Early Political History— His Election Contest at High 

 Wycombe, and an old Radical Diary — The Story of his Early 

 Radicalism — His Chartist Speech and Repartees on the 

 Hustings — His Noisy Reception at Aylesbury— His Agricultural 

 Foibles — Fawcett, the Comedian — Disraeli on Bob Lowe — His 

 Famous Breakdown — His Boyish Prophecy ... ... A 4^^ 



