The confusion and astonishment caused by the supple- mentary volume
of Greville's diaries, edited by Mr.
P. W. Wilson, are due to the editor's method of joining together what is old and what is new without saying which is which. The most amazing passage in the book is an entry which seems to make Greville say that Queen Victoria was afraid of being poisoned by Prince Albert and that Prince Albert was "quite capable" of doing it.
-It now turns out that Greville was really writing about the Queen of Naples, the wife of the notorious Bomba. In a published explanation, Mr. Wilson says that the mistake was due to the slip of a copyist. He seizes the oppor- tunity to write it eulogy of the British Royal Family which is quite true, but would have come with more grace if the editing had not been so lax as to give pain.
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