In the Royal Holloway College, which the late Mr. Holloway
built at Egham for the promotion of women's education, a statue of the Queen by Prince Victor of Hohenlohe (Count Gleichen), was unveiled yesterday week by the Princess Christian, who in a terse and very sensible address exhorted the students never to- forget that women's chief attribute, and the power women possess, lie in their womanliness. "I certainly sympathise," said the Princess, " with the desire for learning and mental culture, but I do feel that sometimes ambition which urges many to encroach on man's province, causes them to underrate the importance of the many duties and privileges which are given to women alone.' The Princess repudiated the notion that women are likely to be worse wives, mothers, or daughters, for studying Euclid and reading Taoitus. But a great deal depended, she thought, on the kind of wives, mothers, and daughters made by the first genera- tion of women amongst us who have mastered Euclid and read Tacitns, and therefore she insisted on the responsibility of their position, and concluded by the excellent advice,—" Be learned, be gentle, be courteous, be religious, and before many years the anxious wish of the founder to benefit the women of this King- dom by placing within their reach a complete course of educa- tion, will have been accomplished."
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