Wilde was very young, but already master of that art of self-advertisement which he received from Byron and disraeli, perfected, and, I think, handed on to Mr. Bernard Shaw.
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood
One feels that one assists at the making of history when the Great Cartoon, or Cut, as they called it, is discussed-as, for instance, when the design for the one representing disraeli on the side of the Angels is decided upon, after his famous speech at Oxford in 1864. The desultory conversation reported in the diary on each occasion after settlement of the cartoon throws a light upon things uppermost in the public mind at the time.
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood
I think we shall carry this Budget, as Gladstone has put it so clearly that hardly a Liberal can vote with disraeli to put him in our place.
"Lady-John-Russell"
MacCarthy, Desmond
