20 NOVEMBER 1886, Page 21

Our Gracious Queen : Jubilee Stories. By Mrs. 0. F.

Walton. (Religious Tract Society.)—Mrs. Walton has collected here a number

of anecdotes of the Queen's life, and these are illustrated by pictures, taken, where it has been possible, from authentic sources. Naturally and properly, the details are fuller with regard to her Majesty's early life. Some of the early portraits and pictures are interesting, though the colouring is somewhat crude.