viii CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER IV. 



Bulgarian Atrocities in Buckinghamshire — Lord Beaconsfield's 

 Speech in the Corn Exchange at Aylesbury and Rothschild's 

 Opinion of it — Disraeli and the Cattle Defence Association — 

 Disraeli and Protection — At Hughenden : its Cedars, its Purchase 

 — Mrs. Disraeli's Frugality — The Romantic Story of Miss 

 Williams' Legacy — Disraeli as Chancellor of the Exchequer 

 — His ^Manchester Speech — His Opinion of the Disfranchising 

 Act of 1832 — His Sympathy for the Agricultural Labouring 

 Class, their Earnings, their Right of Combination — On Publicans 

 and " Exhausted Volcanoes " — His Death and Funeral p. 59 



CHAPTER V. 



Bordeaux and Epernay in 1868 — An Incident at Chambord — 

 Messrs. Nathaniel Johnstone : their Vineyards at Dausac — The 

 Manufacture of Claret — Mr. Moet's Vineyards at Epernay — • 

 The Manufacture of Champagne — National Tastes in Wine 

 — Longevity — "Ways and Means" Lowndes ... ... A 79 



CHAPTER VI. 



Steeplechasing in the Year 1835 — The Great Race at Aylesbury : 

 Captain Beecher wins from Mr. Allnutt — The Races the Year 

 following : Jem Mason is too elever — The Royal Hunt Club ; 

 Anecdotes of a Horse in their Dining-Room — Anecdotes of 

 the Rev. C. Erie and Bishop Wilberforce — Mr. Carroll's Horses, 

 Family, and Jokes ... ... ... p. 89 



CHAPTER VII. 



Louis XVIII. at Hartwell — The English Garden — The King has 

 his own again ; my Father escorts him to London — The 

 Manners of Parochial Clerg}' — Tate and Brady triumphant — 

 Horsewhipping a Miller — An Independent Tory — Anecdote of 

 Lord Palmerston and the Witty Bishop p. \o\ 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Prison Discipline Fifty Years Ago — Sweeping the Streets of 

 Aylesbury— Old Jem and his Bill — Description of the County 



