26 JUNE 1909, Page 14

Queen Victoria's Journals. By Lord Esher. (Times Office. 4d.)—This is

a reprint of a lecture delivered by Lord Esher on March 5th last at the Royal Institution. The lecturer speaks with authority, for he has, of course, seen much that is not pub- lished. That the whole of the journals kept for some seventy years present a substantial unity is his testimony. That the Queen learnt much, and used more and more the indirect method, is not in contradiction to this statement. She believed from her heart that the phrase -which sometimes seems so formal—the Queen's Navy or Army, or whatever olee it may be—was actually true, and she acted up to the belief, though she modified her methods of action. This is a most interesting pamphlet.