NEWS OF THE WEEK
HE most natural phrase with which to speed the Queen, when she left on her journey round the world last November was simply—" Enjoy yourself." It has most readily sprung to mind as she has begun each successive stage of her tour—West Indies, Pacific Islands, New Zealand, Australia, Ceylon,-Uganda, Malta, Gibraltar, and now the final triumphant sea journey that will bring her up the Thames and home. It has been a sheer delight to learn how her people everywhere have welcomed her and tried to ensure that her commitments shotild not ever drive too far away, through official stiffness or excessive personal demands, that spirit of holiday which should, always inform her progress. There has also been, it must be admitted, some quiet satisfaction in seeing the disappointment of the depressing solicitude of those who constantly warned that the young Queen might not be able to Stand the strain of so much travel and enjoyment. All will have their answer soon, when the Britannia appears off our own shores and the Queen, with her husband, who has constantly shared the work and the play, and her children, whose separa- tion from her until recently must have been the one certain hardship of the tour, cothes home again.
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