IDYLLS OF THE QUEEN BY PHILIP GUEDALLA CONTENTS THE QUEEN AND MR. GLADSTONE Dramatis Personae Convergence Harmony Divergence Estrangement Arms Length Antipathy THE PRIMROSE PATH Mr. Disraeli, Statesman Mr. Disraeli, Novelist Mr. Disraeli, Poet BONNET AND SHAWL Jane Welsh Carlyle Catherine Gladstone Mary Arnold Mary Anne Disraeli Emily Tennyson Emily Palmerston Lady Muriel James Sophia Swinburne Julie de Goncourt