... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... says that Queen Victoria was the first person to inspire me with Socialistic views, because it struck me at once how wrong it was that any one person should be in a position to juggle with hundreds of thousands of human lives. But Queen Victoria as a ...

... father's pro hibition, and met a young lover secretly at Madame Tussaud's. She became a Maid of Honour to Queen Victoria. Parental pressure, even the Queen her self, forced her unwillingly to the altar, but she was rewarded with the happiest old age. It is ...

... Seals (Seeker 85. 6 d.) will be divided sharply into two camps those who BOOKS AND PEOPLE A pen and ink. sketch made by Queen Victoria for the dresses oj the bridesmaids at her own wedding, 1840 A VICTORIAN BEAUTY Lady Peel formerly Miss Julia Floyd), wife ...

... over another. When a big manufacturer expressed a desire to present twelve pairs of stockings to Queen Victoria the shocked Court official replied, The Queen of England has no legs, sir. Despite a continued reticence at Court they have now walked right ...

... Stracliey has already distin guished himself in the field of fiction. There is a sense of drama about his figures of Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth, Florence Nightingale, General Gordon, Essex, and others in his fascinating pic ture gallery that suggests ...

... Library List The Letters of Queen Victoria. Third series. Vol II. Edited by George Earle Buckle (Murray, 25s.). Gladstone is here the dominant figure, for the period covered saw his last administration, when his relations with the Queen were at their most difficult ...

... writer. It is remarkably well done, just, considered, and, as such, a valuable contribution to history. One era died with Queen Victoria, another began with King Edward, and, as Mr. Wrotham says, It is the abiding interest of King Edward's character that ...

... the years, to be reminded of the old red letter days the outbreak of the Boer War the relief of Mafeking, the funeral of Queen Victoria, the sinking of the Titanic, the Great War that culminated in Armistice Day, and so on all this is agreeable enough. But ...

... the years, to be reminded of the old red letter days the outbreak of the Boer War the relief of Mafeking, the funeral of Queen Victoria, the sinking of the Titanic, the Great War that culminated in Armistice Day, and so on all this is agreeable enough. But ...