... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... to the point that speech to Queen Victoria which may be taken as the creed and declaration of faith of the nursing profession. The film ends here, and rightly. A great lady once told me that she was present when Queen Victoria said: We have been having ...

... In the course of time these com plaints got whittled away. At the present minute no play based on the life of Queen Victoria, such as Victoria Regina, which has had such amazing success in New York with Helen Hayes playing the lead ing part, is permitted ...

... not visited the theatre since Balaclava, one of whom asked me the name of Nellie Farren's latest burlesque. Strachey's Queen Victoria being mentioned by a civilian, my hostess, who was wearing puce satin and diamonds, ventured to opine that majesty had ...

... Victorian tradition still existed in its purest perfection, Mrs. Elinor Glyn began to write. Just before the death of Queen Victoria she published The Visits of Elizabeth, which was to be one of her greatest successes, and which earned for her a friend's ...

... rather than to men. Beginning with herself as a little girl attending dancing classes at Windsor Castle in the time of Queen Victoria, and ending with herself as mother-in-law to Mr. Harry Roy, the authoress gives many varied pictures of a life unusually ...

... tactful and restrained. She let herself go in a quaint scene towards the close involving a prayer before a portrait of Queen Victoria, used in ecstatic fashion as a sort of ikon. That was hardly her fault. On the whole she gave a portrait of Miss Nightingale ...

... can be blamed for refusing to find something that does not exist. 11 Rhodes of Africa. When far back in the yS of good Queen Victoria a rather pugnacious little boy was born and educated in the Hertfordshire town j Bishop's Stortford, no one, surely, can ...

... reformer with a touch of Raskolnikov about him, was too intense for once he was really in love. When he left to attend Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887, Marie also found it convenient to visit a sister in England and Rudolf's wife promptly refused to go ...

... Plays Me Day Two Specimens of Theatrical Vicforianism-- The Two Bouquets at the Ambassadors and The Ante-Room at the Queen's Dante Comes to Town 1 Reviewed by Philip Page LAST week were to be seen two specimens of theatrical Victorianism, one of them ...

... saying this after seeing A Bride for the Unicorn at the Westminster Theatre, which is cool and comfortable and handy for Victoria Station and Buckingham Palace. As it is my habit never to forecast the length of a run nor to admit being in a quandary about ...