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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... but too short success as a monarch. King Edward possibly never had anything so difficult to achieve as being the son of Queen Victoria, with the shadow of the Prince Consort always over him and a stuffy Court all around him. It has been said that King Edward ...
... volume, The Queen and Mr. Gladstone, 1880-1898 (Hod- der and Stoughton. 25s.), is introduced again by an excellent essay summarizing the relations between the Queen and her Prime Minister. The stock of Gladstone rises high and the stock of the Queen and the ...
... business runs in the blood. I didn't know did you that Olympia was opened in 1886, that its first show was a circus, and that Queen Victoria took three of her grand children, among them Prince Arthur of Connaught, to a command performance. There are several points ...
... play I think not. Opening a volume at random I find that an article, alleged to be about Ibsen's Ghosts is really about Queen Victoria and the Archbishop of Canterbury. In fact I have no doubt that in earlier days Mr. Shaw came away from a sonata to write ...
... [Continued on page xx. The romantic engagement of the PRINCE OF THE ASTURIAS, eldest son of King Alfonso and of Queen Victoria, ex-King and Queen of Spain, to SENORITA EDELMIRA SAN PEDRO-OCEJO, has roused much interest. It was stated last week that, although ...
... wealthy Australian's knighthood at the hand of Queen Victoria. In panic he threw him self on both knees and joined his hands in prayer. When the equerry asked his name he sobbed that he had forgotten, so the Queen knighted him, saying, Rise, Sir Nyum Nyum ...
... of charm. Possibly my snobbish and royalist sentiments may have prejudiced me in its favour. It is being used to land Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on the coast of France, in 1845. Two dashing horses are pulling it through the surf at its back is a ...
... Hothby (Collins. 7s. 6d.). A witty satire without a heroine. WITCH'S CAULDRON, by Eden Phillpotts (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d.). QUEEN VICTORIA, by Arthur Ponsonby (Duckworth. 2s.). COMMANDER DE BLUNT whose book on elephant is reviewed below MR. SINCLAIR LEWIS who ...