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... A Great Queen Dress-Making Memories By 44 Junius MR. GEORGE BUCKLE'S monumental task in editing Queen Victoria's letters and journal has come to a close with The Letters of Queen Victoria, 1886-1901 (Murray; 25s.). This is the third volume ...
... right weapons to conquer. But one cannot agree that Queen Victoria, domestically-minded, viewed politics personally, familiarly, and managed the nations as she would manage a kitchen. History and the Queen's Letters disprove this. Those who believe in the ...
... with a vocal relay race through the streets of L o n don, where the statues of Nelson, the lions in Trafalgar Square, and Queen Victoria herself sing in the New Year to the strains of Auld Lang Syne. The aristocratic young hero falls in love with an unknown ...
... of Lady Cardigan have, I take it, been the model upon which he has based his subject's reminis cences of the Courts of Queen Victoria, Edward VII. and Napoleon III., since his Lady Whopper repeats various state ments made in that book which were afterwards ...
... tells us that it was his twin sisters, Lady Alice and Lady Mary Montagu, who made the historic remark, Oh, piggy-wiggy to Queen Victoria when they saw her picking a chicken-bone in her fingers at luncheon. The Duke of Manchester has led a very varied life ...
... good turn to Ellen Terry. It is possible, no doubt, to claim that various politicians in the same way did a good turn to Queen Victoria. But not many commentators would have thought of making this point. MR. CRAIG cannot forgive G.B.S. for deriding the art ...
... was a shame less manipulator of facts. Here is someone who agrees with me, and does not join the braying chorus: His Queen Victoria was grotesquely faulty, inadequate and misleading and in spite of the demonstrable fact his conception of Elizabeth in ...
... last five years is marked by the appear ance of the final volume of the letters of Queen Victoria. This enormous task of editing the correspon dence and journal of the Queen who ruled England through its most memor able years of nn wr n n d f wealth has ...
... who directed her destiny. NO VICTORIA!-- Of her father, the de plorable First Gentleman of Europe, Dr. Renier has drawn a portrait which seems to me to be just in every line. Of her mother, whom somebody called the Queen of Indiscretions, he takes the ...
... that his two cousins, King George and the Tsar, had plotted the War at the marriage festivities of his daughter, Princess Victoria Louise. He had surprised them in a secret con ference on the wedding eve. He could see now that this had been the moment ...
... who directed her destiny. NO VICTORIA!-- Of her father, the de plorable First Gentleman of Europe, Dr. Renier has drawn a portrait which seems to me to be just in every line. Of her mother, whom somebody called the Queen of Indiscretions, he takes the ...
... young Albert, Mr. Bolitho develops the story of the little Princess Victoria at Kensington. Finally comes the momentous visit of the Prince to his cousin, the courtship, and the young Queen's sudden decision. He must be aware of why she had sent for him. ...