... The 66 Bystander Bookshelf Queen Victoria Again Bv A. G. Macdonell IT seems difficult to believe that there is anything more to be said about Queen Victoria, at any rate in the meantime, after the long succession of biographies and collections of letters ...

... Vi ctorian Tr emiers Queen Victoria and her Ministers: by Sir J A. R. Marriott (Murray, ios. 6d.) THERE was a time not long past, if indeed it has gone, when schoolboys were for ever toeing the line in early Britain, but never getting beyond George ...

... 6d.) ]V /t R. MOTTRAM has taken a prominent citizen of Norwich, whose life over- ^V 1 lapped at both ends the reign of Queen Victoria, and tried to show, from his career and character, the essential features of life in nineteenth-century England. So quiet ...

... of great width. The Kaiser, the Crown Prince and Prince Henry of Prussia, King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, the Empress Marie of Russia and Queen Victoria, these filled the thoughts and, occasionally, the reception-rooms of the great the day of the ...

... seemed reasonable to assume that it would be published before that reign was over. The author's recollections go back to Queen Victoria. The confessions, or more precisely the political arguments, are wholly Georgian. It was for their sake, it appears, that ...

... stuffiness, is blamed upon Queen Victoria by these glib young folk who don't know their history. I would recommend such critics of a great Queen and her reign to read the last volume oi her Letters, The Letters of Queen Victoria, 1886-1901 ...

... India, for Thuggee has been wholly suppressed. QUEEN VICTORIA'S DECIDED OPINIONS ABOUT THE RAILWAYS: Mr. Guedalla, in his volume on Queen Victoria and Mr. Gladstone, quotes some delicious lines from the Queen concerning the conduct of the ...

... favourites. Henry VIII, Elizabeth, and George IV, all are dead, dead as last year's modes and far deader than Queen Anne. Only Queen Victoria is fashionable more, she is (and how she would have despised the notion positively chic. Meanwhile her Royal Son ...

... charm consists in the happy ease and Tight ness with which it recalls the habits of the West End during the final years of Queen Victoria and the first years of King Edward. Miss Hood is wonderfully unsentimental. She sees very clearly the faults and discomforts ...

... I n-- OLD BROMPTON ROAD IN 1822, by G. Scharf THE CORONATION PROCESSION OF QUEEN VICTORIA After her Coronation the Queen changed her dress and washed her little dog THE QUEEN'S BEDROOM OSBORNE After the death of the Prince Consort, his portrait and a ...

... natural enough, but it is a handicap to her art. The Child The Child of Queen Victoria, too, is a collection of of Oueen s'lort stories, and, like Mrs. Buck's, they are arranged Victoria 'n t^lree groups. But the division is geographical, not thematic. Africa ...

... Prince Consort was lying dead at Windsor Castle Queen Victoria, in an impassioned outburst, cried Perhaps they will understand him now! They meant the English people, who had never under stood their Queen's husband, and had always resented his foreign ...