Victoria, Queen of England. By Grace Greenwood. (Sampson Low and
Co.)—Most English readers will be already acquainted with the contents of this volume, which was naturally written, in the first place, for the American public. Still, it will be interesting to see how these things are regarded from a Republican point of view. Miss Greenwood does not think kingship founded on nature (though her countrymen have something much more like a real ruler in their President), but she gives a full and hearty appreciation to the char- acter of the Queen, and regards the peculiarities of her Royal posi- tion with tolerant and even kindly interest. We may be allowed to point out that in one point of modern history she seems to have gone a little astray. Whom does she mean by "the stiff, formal Dutch Queens of any of the Georges I" "Dutch" is possibly American for "Deutsch ;" but only Charlotte of Mecklenburgh, wife of the third George, can be described by the epithets "stiff and formal," not, certainly, Sophia of Brunswick, the unhappy wife of the first ; nor Caroline of Anspach, the lively and brilliant consort of the second ; nor the other unhappy Caroline, who had the misfortune to be married to the fourth.
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