The Abbey provides the fittest conceivable setting for the splendid
ceremony, and on Thursday its beauties seemed even enhanced by the rich carpets and tapestries with which it was decorated. The blues and greys of the floor and walls offered a perfect background to the more brilliant colours of the figures that moved across it. The atmosphere of emotion enveloped the mind long before the beginning of the actual ceremonial, and there was no discord to mar it throughout the proceedings. The demeanour of the King and Queen during the whole of the long service was striking for its dignity and for the quiet appreciation which it showed of the solemnity of the occasion. There was never in their blaring the least touch of the theatrical to jar upon the religious and symbolic significance of the ritual. We shall not attempt any account of the details of the ceremony—descriptions of which will have already been seen by our readers in the daily papers—but we may add that the music was of especial excellence. We can- not but regret, however, that the acclamation of the West- minster scholars was again incorporated with the musical service. Such incorporation tends to obscure its origin.
