... Russian ex-Service- men of the former Imperial Army icith whom the Grand Duchess has kept in touch since her days as a nurse at the front. She and her husband and two sons now live in Denmark, the country of her mother, the Dowager Empress Marie, Queen Alexandra's ...

... side, held in aid of the Scottish Children's League of Pity and the Arrochar District Nursing Association. A great welcome was given to King Faruk of Egypt when, with QUEEN FARIDA and the baby PRINCESS FERYAL seen in the arms of a lady-in- waiting J, he returned ...

... had himself sent abroad on military service at a singularly early stage in order to escape from the embarrassing position of being offered the hand of Queen Victoria. We are further invited to say whether or not the Queen's unreasonable behaviour when ...

... and love, no woman ever proved a better daughter or wife. Mr. Benson's picture of Queen Victoria is vivid. We see her as the young mother, the widow, and as the old Queen-matriarch, whose word was law throughout the royal families of Europe. The book is ...

... Sir George had a distinguished military career, but the last adjective I would apply to the man who was secretary to Lord Kitchener as well as his biographer, to the writer of the lives of King George V, Queen Alexandra, and Sarah Bernhardt, to one who ...

... Indian big-game hunting book to which three members of one family have contributed Mr. R. St. G. Burke, late of the Imperial Forest Service, having collaborated with his daughter in preparing the manuscript, and Mrs. Burke having supplied a number of really ...

... interest. In sense, scene, or sentiment, I cannot imagine anything further away from the foregoing than Mr. Elmer Rice's IMPERIAL CITY (Gollancz. 10s. 6d.). That city, you may have guessed from the author's name and reputation, is New York. In presenting ...