... in 1902, he made it clear that he expected to be given the Order of the Garter, and would accept no other distinction. Queen Victoria had given the Order to his father, and conferred it also upon two Sultans of Turkey. There was, however, some misunder ...

... Aylmer, and large numbers of admirable actors and actresses make brief appearances. Helena Pickard and Peter Graves, as Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, are reasonably convincing the Gladstones far less so and it was pleasant to see Monckton Hoffe, the ...

... Bell's invention entered England, like the cholera a bookseller's catalogue men tioned that the .cover bore a picture of Queen Victoria listening to this novelty. Having seen the episode illustrated somewhere before, we passed on with a light shiver. For ...

... imagine thei fond amusement must have outweighed any deubts. As for Miss Dunne's Queen Victoria, lever an American syllable escapes her padde lips. I cannot quite believe that Queen V toria ever had so ravishing a nose as Miss E mne. but neither can I think ...

... the fuss would hav s been even more ignoble, since anglers seem to lack that quality which the poet noted and praised in Queen Victoria With fortitude The ceremony she withstood. You say it is impossible to judge how fish feel about these things. We say ...

... Valkyrie while staying near Regent's Park in 1855, when among other things, he conducted the Tannhauser over ture before Queen Victoria, this early herald of the new music being explained to Her Majesty by the Prince Consort at her side in the box. Wagner ...

... Monday, and the Queen died on the T uesday and we wore black for months and months afterwards, and there were no Courts at all that year. To ask a woman's age is a liberty denied to all nice thinking men, but I almost fell. Queen Victoria died on January ...

... and require you forthwith to admit the bearer hereof, Ihomas Wall, into the place of Pork-in- Ordinary to Her Majesty Queen Victoria. The Board of Green Cloth a self- explanatory title has also had the ancient Junction of licensing five public houses ...

... distinguished members of the family included th.- ninth baronet, Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Chichester, who was an A.D.C. to Queen-Victoria and King Edward VII. successively, and did much good service in South Africa and Egypt before becoming a highly placed ...

... this freshening. Some districts have been more fortunate in preserving their identity. There is Queen Anne's Gate, which, although hard-pressed by Victoria Street, remains unchanged and is discreet about its commercial tenancies. And on the farther side ...

... Cambridge, is staging Comus in the Fellows' Garden during May Week, an appropriate choice for Milton's own college. The Bats, the Queens' College Dramatic Society, are giving Henry IV, Part I in their Cloister Court, which must be one of the most perfect arc ...