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Vivian Grey

By BENJAMIN DISRAELI Condensation by ALICE G. GROZIER DISRAELI'S story of Vivian Grey, like others of his novels, deals largely with politics, and contains character portraits of well-known persons of the period.

When Vivian Grey reached the age of five years it was discovered that the treatment of a doting mamma and over-attentive nurses had spoiled the child, and it was decided that he had better be sent away to school; when, however, the subject was under discussion, there was a strenuous protest from Vivian against curls and going to school. "I won't have my hair curl, mamma; the boys will laugh at me," bawled the spoiled youngster. "Charles Appleyard told me so; his hair curled, and the boys called him girl. Papa! give me some more claret. I won't go to school!" But in spite of these protests he was sent to school, where he stayed some four years, when it was decided that he should remain at home for a time and do his studying there; but he was later sent off again, this time to the school of Mr. Dallas at Burnsley Vicarage.